As citizens and consumers it has always been pretty easy to filter and choose who we trust. Media and advertisers have done most of the job for us. The internet has challenged some of our trust decisions and has cemented others. New media (social networks, social media, crowd-sourcing sites, micro-blogging, etc) has and will have greater impact on how we calculate trust and reputation.

A few months back I started writing a GStreamer element for converting MusicXML into MIDI, the eventual goal of this from my perspective is to allow for score editing inside Jokosher (without Jokosher having to deal with all the pain of the MIDI format itself).

Foreign Policy ponders the question after the release of this video that shows the murder of civilians by an Apache attack helicopter. The video is not safe for work or to be shown to kids. Yet, we wouldn't be seeing the guns at all if not for a sustained campaign by Wikileaks. At its best, the rise of Wikileaks represents the type of accountability journalism made famous in the 1970s by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward of Watergate fame, and practiced today by Jane Mayer of the New Yorker and Eric Lichtblau and James Risen of the New York Times -- and Seymour Hersh in both eras.

Brands are boring because they're not human. They're companies. And, despite recent Supreme Court decisions to the contrary, companies are not human. They are abstractions that make business possible.

One of the strongest and most talented fields ever assembled for a U.S. cycling race has been invited to the upcoming 2010 Amgen Tour of California, AEG, owner and operator of the eight-day event, which is considered to be the most popular and important professional race held on U.S. soil, announced today.

If you have seen the video that WikiLeaks that came out in the press the other day, then I am sure you have an opinion about it. If you watch the video there is without a doubt there are weapons being carried by some of the insurgents. There is also no doubt that the pilots did not willy-nilly shoot at these people, they confirmed PID (Positive Identity), and they did this several time. The pilots identified weapons multiple times, they cleared with higher command to engage, what angle to engage, etc.

Most of us have heard suggestions or exhortations that we should replace our old-fashioned incandescent light bulbs (first developed 130 years ago by Thomas Edison) with more energy-efficient compact fluorescent lamps. The difference in efficiency is significant.

Just a few weeks after element 112 was officially named Copernicium, Science News is reporting that a group of Russian physicists has succeeded in creating the element with atomic number 117.

March Madness for me this year was a double treat. First, my team, the Duke Blue Devils, won the championship. Second, I got to follow the Devils, and North Carolina Basketball in general, on WDNC. I did this over WunderRadio on my iPhone. A big thanks to the folks at WDNC/TheBuzz for a great season of Duke, Carolina and ACC basketball coverage -- especially for a listener stuck here in New England, where pro sports dominate.

When we first drove the Nissan GT-R way back in 2008, chief engineer Kazutoshi Mizuno said his Godzilla was just the start of a supercar evolution the likes of which Japan had never seen. It looks as though he's making good on that boast. After launching the limited edition $150,000 GT-R Spec V in 2009, he is turning his attention to an even more radical Spec M.

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