Cell Reception Cut In San Francisco To Hinder Protest by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS August 13, 2011 Transit officials blocked cellphone reception in San Francisco train stations
Category: Ideas
Anonymity and the Demise of the Ephemeral
The New York Times email update had the right headline “Upending Anonymity, These Days the Web Unmasks Everyone” but made a common mistake in the
animal diminutives
At the risk of straying too far off the sociology of information trail, may I report a conversation from this morning’s ride down to CASBS
No Such Thing as Evanescent Data
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
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
