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
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.
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
Outflanking "the Human" with Information
Two stories in NYT today about data crunching. One on mapping neuron connections in mice to understand how brains work. The other on using statistics
Wikileaks Mirror Servers Geographic Visualization
A fascinating Google Earth visualization of the wikileaks mirror sites worldwide.
An Interesting Web Book "App"
What reminds you of what? When one reads — or hears about — a book, one almost unconsciously make connections — this book is a
Wikileaks Conversation Continues
Interesting piece in NYT blog “The Lede” about online activists’ response to credit card companies and PayPal “blacklisting” Wikileaks. The entry includes the YouTube “manifesto”
Innoeduvation 