This is why: Lower Merion School District employees activated the web cameras and tracking software on laptops they gave to high school students about 80 times in the past two school years, snapping nearly 56,000 images that included photos of students, pictures inside their homes and copies of the programs or files running on their [...]
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Police States are Bad Ideas
Posted in Uncategorized on April 20, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Communications Channels, eReaders
Posted in Uncategorized on January 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’ll heartily second what Jim Fallows says here (though without rehashing my earlier anti-Kindle thoughts, I wouldn’t say it’s an argument for the Kindle per se so much as eReaders in general): My main view on communications media is that new systems usually add to old ones, rather than displacing them. Radio didn’t eliminate books [...]
The Future of Publishing (part n in continuing series)
Posted in Uncategorized on January 11, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Good post by Richard Nash on the future of publishing, most of which I agree with. I don’t agree at all, however, with one of the predictions: 3. Most predictions for 2020 based on models derived from controlling the supply side, that is, from the monopoly on the means of producing and distributing books, will [...]
Research and Generalizability
Posted in research on November 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A few weeks back I took an all-day seminar with Don Dillman, “How Visual Design and Layout Influence Responses to Questionairres.” It was a great course and I definitely recommend taking the opportunity to do anything similar with Dillman or Odum if the opportunity presents itself. In addition to some great walk-throughs on the power [...]
Privacy and Cloud Computing
Posted in privacy on November 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been reading and re-reading Jim Fallows’ post from the other week and have concluded I have nothing smart to say that he doesn’t say already. But, here it is: A reader sends in a link to this recent post by law professor Orin Kerr, on a ruling about how 4th Amendment protections against “unreasonable [...]
ASIS&T Talk – Bot 2.0: Botany through Web 2.0, the Memex, and Social Learning
Posted in research on November 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I had a great time presenting on my work with the Bot2.0 project earlier today at ASIS&T; you can find a copy of the talk here [.pdf]. Thanks to Miguel Ruiz for organizing the panel, moderating and presenting, to my co-panelists Bryan Heidorn and Nathan Hall, and everyone who came out to listen and ask [...]
“We are not advocating that countries abandon sovereignty.”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged politics, science on September 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Thus does a large group of eminent scientists frame a pretty gloomy assessment (ScienceDaily summation here) of the failure of multilateral cooperation on a wide range of threats facing Earth, including, Energy, food, and water crises; climate disruption; declining fisheries; increasing ocean acidification; emerging diseases; and increasing antibiotic resistance are examples of serious, intertwined global-scale [...]
Post-Interstitiality
Posted in Uncategorized on March 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Bill Gibson: …New York having been in those days seemingly not a part of the United States but something simultaneously autonomous and interstitially abandoned. When I first visited New York as an adult (so to speak) at the start of my writing career, it seemed to me that it couldn’t possibly go on, that way. [...]
Facebook and Who We Want to Be
Posted in Uncategorized on March 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Nicole Ellison has a good post on the uses of Facebook as identity affordance over time, and puts very nicely the sentiment that, this expanded social network of people from one’s history as a supportive presence that enables individuals to stretch, knowing that they have links to their past should they need them. Ongoing research [...]
Do Something Good
Posted in Uncategorized on March 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Rob Walker has a recent column in Slate with a provocative suggestion: Why do agencies need to go find a client that has ideas about social or environmental responsibility? Don’t the smart folks at the agencies have any such ideas of their own? Well, then, pick one, forget about finding a client, and go out [...]
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