Pretty good coverage of the “iphone keeps track of where you’ve been” story in today’s NYT “Inquiries Grow Over Apple’s Data Collection Practices” and in
Author: Dan Ryan
I've been an Academic Program Director at MinervaProject.com, a professor at University of Toronto, University of Southern California, and Mills College teaching things like human centered design, computational thinking, modeling for policy sciences, and social theory. My current mission is to figure out how to reorganize higher education and exploit technology so that we can teach twice as many twice as well twice as easily.
Data Exhaust and Informational Efficiency
Heard an interesting talk by Paul Kedrosky a few weeks ago at PARC titled Data Exhaust, Ladders, and Search. The gist of the talk is
The Rubrikization of Higher Education
The rubricization of education has always rubbed me the wrong way but I’ve never been able to put my finger on concrete flaws beyond the
radio + internet + letter to your senator = democracy in action
This project, reported by WNYC and npr’s On the Media is one of the best uses of web crowd sourcing I’ve heard about. They ask
Sociology of Information in the News
A flurry of sociology of information items in today’s New York Times: “Book Lovers Fear Dim Future for Notes in the Margins” In a digital
Information and the Humanities
New York Times reporter Patricia Cohen has been on the “ideas and intellectual life” beat for sometime and has recently produced some excellent pieces of
Innoeduvation 