Late November in North Carolina is a very special time of year, as it marks the beginning of a period of deep religious reflection. That’s right, it’s college basketball season. For those of you who are fans and/or stats junkies, I wanted to point you towards a great website – StatSheet.com. StatSheet is the product [...]
Yesterday I posted about a few of the serious privacy flaws in Google’s SearchWiki. Thankfully, there seems to be a solution to the problem of name association. Dave Weinberger noticed “[T]he results page shows you the nicknames of other users who have voted the page up.” To address this problem, Google will allow you to [...]
Wayne Sutton, one of my esteemed guest lecturers in last night’s (penultimate) Technologies of Friendship class, streamed and recorded the lectures via Ustream.tv. If you’d like to check them out, here’s a link – and I’ve embedded the video.
Streaming live video by Ustream
Thank you again to my speakers – Brian, Wayne, Dave and Abe. [...]
David Weinberger highlights a stunning oversight by Google’s SearchWiki team (bold mine):
[T]he results page shows you the nicknames of other users who have voted the page up. So, now the whole world will see that “dweinberger” not only searched for “Angelina Jolie” but thumbs-upped the page of closeups of her tattoos? Guess who just changed [...]
TechCrunch is right – Google, It Wasn’t Broke. Google has rolled personalization at the item level into search, cluttering their elegant interface. As far as I can tell, this affects all users who are logged in with a Google account (i.e. Gmail, etc), and there’s no way to opt out. Now, I’m not against personalization [...]
Just a friendly reminder – please RSVP if you get a chance (so I can figure out how many snacks we need), but if you don’t RSVP, please feel free to come anyway!
On November 24, we’ll be discussing new forms of work, organization and action in INLS490. We’re lucky have four experts coming in to [...]
Via danah boyd and Mimi Ito, the MacArthur Digital Youth Project has released its findings. Ito writes:
It’s been over three years in the making, but we are at long last releasing the results of our Digital Youth Project. The goal of this work was to gain an understanding of youth new media practice in the [...]
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