Chris Dodd’s paid SOPA crusading Chris Dodd’s emphatic 2010 pledge not to lobby once he finally left the Senate was prompted by widespread speculation that he spent the last two years in office blatantly shilling for corporate interests in order to ensure a prosperous post-Congress career. Particularly during the 2010 financial reform debate — when it became increasingly apparent that allegations of improper benefits from Countrywide Financial would make his re-election close to impossible — Dodd served on multiple occasions as chief spokesman for , and defender of , the interests of Wall Street and corporate America . Though sleazy and grotesque, it was therefore entirely unsurprising when it was announced last March that Dodd would “be Hollywood’s leading man in Washington, taking the most prestigious job on K Street”: Chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), “whose perks include a $1.2 million-a-year salary and getting to attend the Academy Awards ceremony.”
Remember Aaron Swartz by working for open society and against government abuses | Dan Gillmor As we mourn Aaron Swartz, let’s save energy for some anger — and activism. Aaron, whose work was entirely about making our world a better place, died by his own hand. He was 26, and he had a history of depression. But the demons that carried him over the edge surely got a boost from the United States government, which was prosecuting Aaron in a manner that demonstrated contempt for the facts, fairness, and the justice system itself. The case against Aaron, an object lesson of what happens when authority is cynically abused by the people in power, threatened more than Aaron’s liberty and his great work. So amid my grief for Aaron, I’m angry — and committed to working for honorable enforcement of rational laws, and for values Aaron exemplified in his short life. Aaron had made his presence known early. I didn’t meet Aaron until 2002, at a World Wide Web conference in Hawaii, though I’d heard of him and his work. His contributions were numerous, and some of them were indispensable.
Steinbeis Das Familienunternehmen Bussmann besteht seit 1898 und wird heute in dritter Generation geführt. Das Stammunternehmen, die Hermann Bussmann GmbH, begreift sich als Speditions- und Logistikdienstleister, operiert von seinem Stammsitz Vreden in Westfalen aus und bedient Kunden europaweit. Als mittelgroße Kapitalgesellschaft befindet es sich auf stetigem Wachstumskurs. 2012 beschäftigte die Hermann Bussmann GmbH 160 Mitarbeiter und verfügte über eine Flotte von 90 eigenen Lkw-Zügen. Am Beispiel der Hermann Bussmann GmbH hat Markus Bussmann eruiert, wie die Instrumente des ERM in einem KMU eingesetzt werden können, welche Hürden eine Implementierung zu nehmen hat und ob neben operativen Fragestellungen auch strategische Fragestellungen wirkungsvoll unterstützt werden können. Die Projektarbeit von Markus Bussmann lieferte für das Familienunternehmen Hermann Bussmann GmbH einen hohen Nutzwert, indem u.a. erstmalig ein fundierter Risikokatalog erstellt wurde.
In quotes: Tributes to Aaron Swartz 13 January 2013Last updated at 06:37 ET Swartz developed RSS at an early age Friends and admirers have been paying tribute to Aaron Swartz, a prominent US internet activist who has died at the age of 26. Below is a selection of some of the many quotes posted online after Mr Swartz's death on Saturday, in what authorities say was a suicide. tweets: "Aaron dead. writes: "Aaron did more than almost anyone to make the Internet a thriving ecosystem for open knowledge, and to keep it that way. While his methods were provocative, the goal that Aaron died fighting for - freeing the publicly-funded scientific literature from a publishing system that makes it inaccessible to most of those who paid for it - is one that we should all support. Moreover, the situation Aaron found himself in highlights the injustice of US computer crime laws, and particularly their punishment regimes." blogs: "Here is where we need a better sense of justice, and shame. I love Aaron.
The Truth about Aaron Swartz’s “Crime” « Unhandled Exception I did not know Aaron Swartz, unless you count having copies of a person’s entire digital life on your forensics server as knowing him. I did once meet his father, an intelligent and dedicated man who was clearly pouring his life into defending his son. My deepest condolences go out to him and the rest of Aaron’s family during what must be the hardest time of their lives. If the good that men do is oft interred with their bones, so be it, but in the meantime I feel a responsibility to correct some of the erroneous information being posted as comments to otherwise informative discussions at Reddit, Hacker News and Boing Boing. Apparently some people feel the need to self-aggrandize by opining on the guilt of the recently departed, and I wanted to take this chance to speak on behalf of a man who can no longer defend himself. I was the expert witness on Aaron’s side of US vs Swartz, engaged by his attorneys last year to help prepare a defense for his April trial. The facts: Like this:
Social Proof Is The New Marketing Editor’s note: This guest post is written by Aileen Lee, Partner at venture firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, where she focuses on investing in consumer internet ventures. Full disclosure: some of the companies mentioned below are KPCB-backed companies, including One Kings Lane, Klout and Plum District (both of which count Lee as a board member). You can read more about Lee at KPCB.com and follow her on twitter at @aileenlee. As I’ve written about before, we’re in an amazing period of the consumer Internet. One challenge, which isn’t new, is the battle for consumer attention. What is social proof? Wikipedia describes social proof as “a psychological phenomenon where people assume the actions of others reflect the correct behavior for a given situation… driven by the assumption that the surrounding people possess more information about the situation.” Consider the social proof of a line of people standing behind a velvet rope, waiting to get into a club. Five Types of Social Proof
Aaron Swartz commits suicide A previous version of this article identified Aaron Swartz as a co-owner of reddit. Swartz was initially the founder of Infogami, which later merged with reddit into Not A Bug. Web Update Aaron Swartz commits suicide Editor’s Note: See our blog for a summary of The Tech’s coverage on Aaron Swartz. Computer activist Aaron H. “The tragic and heartbreaking information you received is, regrettably, true,” confirmed Swartz’ attorney, Elliot R. Swartz was indicted in July 2011 by a federal grand jury for allegedly downloading millions of documents from JSTOR through the MIT network — using a laptop hidden in a basement network closet in MIT’s Building 16 — with the intent to distribute them. The accomplished Swartz co-authored the now widely-used RSS 1.0 specification at age 14, founded Infogami which later merged with the popular social news site reddit, and completed a fellowship at Harvard’s Ethics Center Lab on Institutional Corruption.
Strongbox and Aaron Swartz Aaron Swartz was not yet a legend when, almost two years ago, I asked him to build an open-source, anonymous in-box. His achievements were real and varied, but the events that would come to define him to the public were still in his future: his federal criminal indictment; his leadership organizing against the censorious Stop Online Piracy Act; his suicide in a Brooklyn apartment. I knew him as a programmer and an activist, a member of a fairly small tribe with the skills to turn ideas into code—another word for action—and the sensibility to understand instantly what I was looking for: a slightly safer way for journalists and their anonymous sources to communicate. There’s a growing technology gap: phone records, e-mail, computer forensics, and outright hacking are valuable weapons for anyone looking to identify a journalist’s source.