This day in history

2002, 2012, 2017, 2021.

#20yrsago Baen Books’ latest reader-friendly e-book venture https://slashdot.org/story/02/08/03/2314232/buy-one-book-get-twenty-two-free

#20yrsago Janis Ian’s successful fallout https://web.archive.org/web/20020803224324/http://www.janisian.com/article-fallout.html

#20yrsago Danny O’Brien’s Random acts of Internet kindness https://web.archive.org/web/20020820082606/http://www.oblomovka.com/entries/2002/08/03

#20yrsago Bruce Sterling and I, debating spam http://www.viridiandesign.org/notes/301-350/00325_open_source_speech.html

#10yrsago Cybercrime, patent-theft numbers are total bullshit https://www.propublica.org/article/does-cybercrime-really-cost-1-trillion

#10yrsago Sociability’s value comes from privacy https://web.archive.org/web/20120806214152/https://kyrobeshay.com/post/28647196980/being-social-is-about-being-private

#5yrsago William Gibson: what we talk about, when we talk about dystopia https://memex.craphound.com/2017/08/04/william-gibson-what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-dystopia/

#5yrsago Big data + private health insurance = game over https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2017-08-04/big-data-is-coming-to-take-your-health-insurance