HN user

mathewi

244 karma

blogger, technology writer, bon vivant

Posts30
Comments16
View on HN
gigaom.com 12y ago

Marc Andreessen on Edward Snowden, acts of treason and Silicon Valley

mathewi
3pts0
gigaom.com 12y ago

Cyborg artist has an implanted "antenna" that allows him to hear colors

mathewi
3pts3
gigaom.com 12y ago

Turkey passes draconian internet law

mathewi
3pts0
gigaom.com 12y ago

No, the Chinese Internet did not get re-routed to a small house in Wyoming

mathewi
3pts0
gigaom.com 12y ago

Marc Andreessen talks about the pros and cons of net neutrality

mathewi
33pts57
gigaom.com 13y ago

Is Silicon Valley suffering from a failure of imagination?

mathewi
3pts0
gigaom.com 13y ago

Why AirBnB is so disruptive

mathewi
1pts0
gigaom.com 13y ago

A developer talks about the impact of Twitter's crackdown

mathewi
3pts0
gigaom.com 13y ago

Twitter's move into TV could be a recipe for disaster

mathewi
2pts0
gigaom.com 14y ago

Has Facebook ruined Silicon Valley or just changed it?

mathewi
2pts0
gigaom.com 14y ago

Has Facebook popped the bubble or just let off some steam?

mathewi
2pts0
gigaom.com 14y ago

What is the purpose of a newspaper?

mathewi
3pts0
gigaom.com 14y ago

Making it easy for the web to interact with the real world

mathewi
2pts0
gigaom.com 14y ago

Why it's wrong to call copyright infringement theft

mathewi
2pts1
gigaom.com 14y ago

Being tracked by Google isn't bad -- it's actually good

mathewi
4pts0
gigaom.com 14y ago

Does WikiLeaks really matter any more?

mathewi
2pts0
gigaom.com 15y ago

Blogging for HuffPo Is Like Writing Open-Source Software

mathewi
4pts1
gigaom.com 15y ago

Software that claimed to protect Iranian web surfers doesn't

mathewi
1pts0
gigaom.com 15y ago

4chan decides to do something nice for a change

mathewi
4pts0
gigaom.com 15y ago

Skyhook plans to use patents to corner market in location data

mathewi
1pts0
iwasamonkey.tumblr.com 15y ago

Why 37signals advice is irrelevant and unhelpful

mathewi
136pts61
gigaom.com 16y ago

Flipboard wades into the same murky copyright waters Google lives in

mathewi
2pts0
gigaom.com 16y ago

Real-time may be nice for search engines, but what about personal lives?

mathewi
2pts1
gigaom.com 16y ago

Software uses Twitter, Flickr to let dissidents send coded messages

mathewi
3pts4
gigaom.com 16y ago

Should Open Web Advocates Remain Independent?

mathewi
1pts0
gigaom.com 16y ago

The Relationship Between Facebook and Privacy: It's Really Complicated

mathewi
2pts0
gigaom.com 16y ago

Want to Know What Facebook is Saying About You? Try This Tool

mathewi
3pts1
gigaom.com 16y ago

Researchers "Addicted" to Bogus Internet Studies

mathewi
21pts3
gigaom.com 16y ago

Your Mom's Guide to Those Facebook Changes, and How to Block Them

mathewi
3pts0
gigaom.com 16y ago

Hate ChatRoulette? Then You Hate The Internet

mathewi
2pts2

They don't have to be on the same level -- they both simply have to be engaged in the practice of journalism. And is the fact that they send people around the globe what makes them a journalistic entity? No. It's that they publish information that is important in some way, which is exactly what WikiLeaks does -- which makes them deserving of the same protection as the New York Times.

As the author of the post, maybe I can try and clear that up: my point was that while we have all failed to some extent -- by not supporting WikiLeaks and protesting things like the PayPal blockade and Amazon deletion and the government's dubious case -- the New York Times has failed by not using its national media platform to protest those things and their impact on free speech and freedom of the press. And my argument about why they didn't do that is in part that the NYT sees WikiLeaks as competition. Hope that helps.

I think the problem with this program is that it's tied not to the success of the company itself -- which everyone has a stake in -- but the success of social features with which many people at Google probably aren't even involved, and over which they have no control.

Alexis, this was an incredible post -- tremendously moving. You deserve some big props for sticking it through all that and achieving what you did. My mother had an aneurysm just as I was making a big move at work, and that kind of thing really puts things in perspective -- as your post did. Bravo.