Bytes of China
Via James Fallows, I just found Bytes of China, written by a Fulbright scholar doing fieldwork in China. It's great work: check out this post on supercomputing in
danah boyd on transparency, information, and interpretation
Via Clay Johnson (whose Information Diet I need to read) I came across danah boyd's talk "Transparency is not enough:" The key idea: Transparency is important, but it's
Hipstamatic and social picture sharing
My anniversary is coming up soon: my wife and I got married on New Year's Eve fifteen years ago. One of the things we did at the wedding
On the double-edged sword of safety systems
The new report on the crash of Air France flight 447 concludes that pilot error was responsible for the crash-- or more accurately, that the pilot's mental model
Secrets of the blogging forest monks talk is now online
My TEDxYouth@Monterey talk is now up on YouTube. Thanks very much to Bob Cole and the rest of the CSU Monterey Bay team for a great event!
Another add to the pile: “Infinite Reality”
While I've read most of the technical articles that Jeremy Bailenson's lab has published (though from his perch in Xerox PARC, Nick Yee is giving his alma mater
Delete
Just found a good interview with Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, author of Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age, in the Guardian: In Delete, Mayer-Schönberger traces the history of...
“Forgetting as a feature, not a bug”
Reading the great article but Liam Bannon, director of the Interaction Design Centre at the University of Limerick, on forgetting as a feature, not a bug. His central insight
Police cruisers and distracted driving
From the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, in an article about an accident involving a state tropper who appears to have been using his car's laptop just before the crash: Distracted
Neil Gabler on the post-idea society
A provocative... well, idea... in a recent New York Times piece: [W]e are living in an increasingly post-idea world — a world in which big, thought-provoking ideas that