New Orleans I was a couple of minutes late and walked into a speech by long time New Orleans community leader Beulah Laboistrie’s remarks about her decades of leadership in ACORN and now A Community Voice, which has arisen from the ashes of the organization in Louisiana, so I was looking sidelong at the …
Month: June 2010
Text and Email Surveillance
New Orleans This almost seems like one of these surreal déjà vu moments where you have to pinch yourself and try to remember where you are and where you are going. I was writing a note about the way Chinese workers were using modern technology and keeping it positive, when not minutes after I finished …
Tech Tactics in China Strikes
New Orleans An article by David Barboza and Keith Bradsher in the Times had a fascinating discussion of the ways that workers in the strikes spreading through China are using digital technology, especially their cell phones and access to Skype and other systems not controlled by the state or open to spying by the company …