BuzzMachine

Privacy, schivacy
: Who needs Total Information Awareness when we have the Flash Mind Reader. [via IT&W]

Security
: I have to say I’m impressed. Coming through Denver’s airport, I’ve watched the shift changes for the TSA security guards and watched their staff meetings. They are taking their jobs seriously, doing it professionally. I was just a bit concerned when I heard that they are searching only a quarter of the bags coming through (“we have to search more every day,” said the boss).

Lab rats
: A proposal to start a university research center into microcontent, including blogs. [via Seb] The proposal focuses on microcontent publishing in education; I think it’d be interesting to broaden that to microcontent publishing for any purpose. It’s not just a tool. It’s media.

Mystery blog
: Jack O’Toole, following Nick Denton‘s nanopublishing lead, has started a mystery fan’s blog. Good idea, good execution. The only thing I would do, Jack, is also follow Nick’s lead on Gizmodo and add direct Amazon purchase links wherever possible so you can make some money — nanomoney, perhaps, but money nonetheless.

Vlogging spreads: The Oliver Willis Show
: I knew it was inevitable. It just had to be. If MSNBC wasn’t going to hire Oliver Willis (yet) he’d start his own TV show. And he has: The Willis Vlog — a wrapup of the news with in his voice (in all senses of the word). Go watch.

That’s what I love about this: The form keeps morphing as more people get their hands on it.