Dan Rather’s lawsuit against CBS isback in the news*. The gist of the suit is Rather’s claim that the network allowed political considerations (over his
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.
Notification on your Blackberry
A textbook perfect example of notification appeared on the front page of the NYT business section today. Geraldine Fabrikant tells the story of Sallie Krawcheck’s
Where Does the Information Go? Preserving a Sense of History
In the last few days I’ve read a number of blog posts and letters to the editor in which the writers expressed discomfort (a kind
The Intellectual World as Magazine Shop
Just back from “Family Weekend” at MIT (very well done, BTW) and catching up on things. The following appeared in the American Sociological Association‘s newsletter
Who Knows What Everybody Knows?
A few months ago I was hanging out with a group of folks from National Public Radio’s “Next Generation Radio” Project. Participants were sitting around
Silence on the Soc of Info Front
Week’s worth of silence here was due to a quick trip to Paris in the company of my partner, Gillian Hadfield, who was talking at
Innoeduvation 