Insider trading is a classic example of the instrumental value of information and it reminds us of how markets are socially constructed (not in the
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.
On Getting Scooped : TEOTUAWKI*
They closed the comments on Mark Taylor’s OpEd “End the University as We Know It” before I could get one in, so I’m posting it
Friends of Friends
I’ve been thinking about social networks today, and how they grow. In particular, I’ve noticed that sometimes when I “make” a new friend on Facebook,
Whose Information?
Robert Smith had a piece (“Sept. 11 Families Want Confidential Files Released“) on NPR’s Morning Edition today that dovetails nicely with a number of posts
Information Rot
A whole chapter in my book on the sociology of information will be about information permanence and impermanence and so this posting by David Pogue
Foolishness as a Fount of Robustness
It has often been said that information is at the heart of the current economic crisis: markets grind to a halt as opacity erodes trust
Innoeduvation 