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A truly superb talk by Dr. Azides. Please watch

A truly superb talk by Dr. Azides. Everyone from Tocqueville project please watch it.

I'm predicting ... the white house will have to reverse itself on this.

A good response to this is at Does Obama plan to spy on social-networking sites?. "I'm not sure that highlighting a public contract offer amounts to "uncovering" a conspiracy, especially since their analysis turns out to be faulty. Contrary to NLPC's take, the contractor would be collecting data required to be kept by the White House - by law ... The Presidential Records Act (PRA) essentially requires each administration to keep every pixel and keystroke ever published for later review by Congress or investigators, in case illegal activity takes place. We have seen this invoked ex post facto to the Clinton and Bush administrations, in the latter over e-mails sent and received outside the White House mail system. At that time, legal experts and investigators insisted that everything produced by an administration for anything remotely concerning official business had to be archived within the EOP. A more careful reading of this RFP shows that to be the project. The contract directs the contractor to archive the "information posted on publicly-accessible web sites where the EOP maintains a presence", including social networking sites like MySpace, Twitter, and so on. It doesn't call for everything on those networks to be archived, but only "information posted by non-EOP persons on publicly-accessible web sites where the EOP maintains a presence[,] both comments posted on pages created by EOP and messages sent to EOP accounts on those web sites." In other words, the archiving will include interaction on EOP websites and pages, but not anything else."

Alternative to the toolbar?

Unfortunately when you follow this discussion through, the link to http://www.bretagdesigns.com/technologist/?p=531 does not work ... So can't see the original article the discussion is about, oh well.

Try to do a google search on 'site:www.bretagdesigns.com zotero' doesn't work either --- so the original article has been lost in the ether