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Posts from October 2008

Upcoming Travel – Columbus, OH

Things have been a little quiet around Unit Structures lately – I’m preparing to head off to the 2008 ASIST Annual Meeting.  At the meeting, we’ll be presenting a poster with some early findings from our most recent privacy attitudes study (I’ll post the abstract/poster here after the conference), and I’ll be part of a [...]


Coworking in Carrboro is a hit

Brian Russell, a community-tech organizer who I’ve known for a number of years, has recently opened a coworking space in Carrboro, NC.  Coworking is a new form of shared office space that blends a coffeeshop-like atmosphere with a professional office environment.  Designed with teleworkers and the self-employed in mind, Carrboro Creative Coworking is sort of [...]


Fixing the Yahoo News Toggle

Updated, thanks Dan!
Looks like Yahoo lets you toggle this off yourself, with a cookie. From Yahoo’s own help page: At the bottom of the page is an option to turn OFF expand/collapse. If you turn this off, you will not see the “Read Full Article” button anymore and will see only single, open pages.
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/news/expandpage.html
If you [...]


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8 October 2008 @ 9am

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Spring 2009 – Social Networks

Even though it feels like the Fall semester has just started, registration for Spring 2009 is underway.  I’ll be teaching Online Social Networks, with the class meeting on Monday evenings from 6-8:30.  If you’re interested in taking the class, you can view the syllabi from previous semesters on my teaching page.
Social networks is a class [...]


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7 October 2008 @ 8am

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Thoughts

Facebook Dataset Identified

It now appears that the Tastes, Ties and Times dataset has been identified.  According to privacy scholar Michael Zimmer, the dataset of Facebook profiles is from Harvard College.  In my original post on the matter, I discussed how “fingerprints” of friend networks could be used to identify the dataset.  It did not require such complicated [...]


Dr. Vance Ricks to visit Technologies of Friendship

On Monday, October 6, We are pleased to welcome the first guest lecturer of the semester to Technologies of Friendship.  Vance Ricks, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Guilford College, will deliver the talk When Philosophers Met Friendship, which “gives an overview of some contemporary philosophical discussions of friendship and examines the contributions philosophers can make [...]