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- Brock is the former Executive Editor at Atlantic Media Strategies and former Chief Washington Correspondent for MSNBC; he is the founder/creator/editor of CyberWire Dispatch, the Net's pioneering online journalistic news service. Previously he was the Director of Communications for the Center for Democracy & Technology, a non-profit, Washington, D.C.-based public interest group working to keep the Internet open, innovative, and free. The views expressed here are his alone and do not reflect the opinions, attitudes, or policy positions of his employer(s), past or present.
![I tend to love lists of things, so when Zach Eberhart with the Zemanta clan posted his “top 40” blogging tools I hit that puppy like a hungry trout. As […]](https://i0.wp.com/gutcheckamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/typewriter_keys.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Blogging on Steroids: 40 Killer App Tools")
![I don’t really want my iPhone ratting me out when I walk into a retail store, but there are entire mobile-tracking industry being built on just that idea. Now, this […]](https://i0.wp.com/gutcheckamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/telex-large-copy.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Back Pocket Surveillance 24/7")
![You think Ted Turner isn’t smiling? His ground-breaking and now all.too.essential CNN (cable news network, for those that have forgotten what those initials stand for) is the gold standard for […]](https://i0.wp.com/gutcheckamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/radio.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "TNN — Twitter News Network")
![In today’s digital age, the term “shared tragedy” takes us into an entirely new dimension of up-close-and-personal. The ferocious stream of raw imagery and unfiltered information that is force-fed to […]](https://i0.wp.com/gutcheckamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/flowers-1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "The Incredible Lightness of ‘Shared Tragedy’")
![Aw, c’mon, let’s face it: in today’s all-digital, all the time world we are little more than data meat (I call dibs on coining this phrase). We are scraped, crawled, […]](https://i0.wp.com/gutcheckamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/iStock_000000812044Small.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "Data Meat: How Your Daily Read Targets You for Data")
![I don’t care if you’re building the next Ottoman Empire, the next killer app or the next killer leveraged buyout, you are doomed to failure if you neglect the concept […]](https://i0.wp.com/gutcheckamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/1976032.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "It’s Community, Stupid")
![The “desktop” computer is dead. Yes, it is. We are in the post-desktop era and nothing says that louder than the following 15 stats, which I’ve borrowed in whole from […]](https://i0.wp.com/gutcheckamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/3355075.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "15 Surprising Stats About Mobile Tech in Post-Desktop Era")
![Ever had a big idea, but you just weren’t sure how to make it a reality? Hacker Scouts is giving kids a chance to build their dream project, and a […]](https://i0.wp.com/gutcheckamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/2316377376_bb2042f3b1_b.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "“Hacking” the Boy Scouts")
![Time management. Always a challenge for me… in my younger days. No longer. You see, last June I watched–literally–my father take the last breath he would ever take. Forever. As […]](https://i0.wp.com/gutcheckamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/DSC_0882.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "The 24/7 Dirt Nap of Eternity or Time Management Hacks I Wish I’d Learned Eons Ago")
![If the odds-on favorite cybersecurity bill gets passed as is, it’ll be like shoving a red hot poker into the collective angst of US citizens‘ civil liberties. The bill, the […]](https://i0.wp.com/gutcheckamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Aclu-v-ashcroft-redacted.jpg?resize=115%2C115&ssl=1 "CISPA: A Red Hot Poker Ups the Ante for Civil Liberties")