Some rambling thoughts on a fascinating set of articles about measuring teaching. Today’s NYT carried two stories — on on page 1 — about new
Category: Ideas
Wikileaks and Protecting Your Sources
In the NYT, Alan Cowell wrote today about reactions among diplomats to the WikiLeaks leaks. In the middle of the story we read: A Chinese
From Information Superhighway to Information Metrosystem
The new FTC report on consumer privacy has an interesting graphic in an appendix. It purports to be a model of the “Personal Data Ecosystem.”
Leaking Irony
While I work on more extended analysis of the WikiLeaks situation (among other things the obvious connection to my work on how geometries of information
Work Slowdown in Soc of Info
Readers, Have been swamped with teaching and administrative work of late, and trying to spend two days a week at the Center for Advanced Study
Peer to Peer Education: Can Students Teach One Another?
One of society’s major “information institutions” is, of course, the university (and colleges, too). In these institutions information is generated, classified, evaluated, sanctioned, organized, and
