Another sign of growing state interest in the semantic web… According to a recent article in the washington post, "the FBI has created a network of links between the nation's largest telephone and Internet firms and about 40 FBI offices and Quantico" as part of their Digital Collection System (also ...
What would it look like if we were to situate young people in the growing semantic web? A 2007 report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) took a look at some of the data mining programs currently underway at the Department of Homeland Security. In their report, GAO offer ...
Lawrence Lessig is the originator of Creative Commons and the author of Free Culture, Code 2.0 and the The Future of Ideas. An online campaign has been setup to encourage him to run for the congressional seat vacated by Rep. Tom Lantos (who recently passed away) in California. Having a ...
November 11th 2007
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Hello everyone - I ran into Sara Nelson Wright from the IMA/MFA program at Hunter and she invited me to an upcoming event of the “Electronic Social Club (ESC).” The ESC bills itself as a “network of NYC graduate students connected by the practice of creating social dialogue through projects ...
part 1 of please forward to everyone you know was posted on 10.14.07.
Obama responds to the smear campaign. From the chicago sun-times:
Obama said the “swiftboating” started after he announced for president and Fox News “started saying, ‘“well this guy went to schools in madrassas.’” He revealed that his campaign ...
This screen shot is from Parents. The Anti-Drug. What I like most about this web site is the way it both 'teaches' parents what text messaging is AND it explains how this new technology can be a drug-enabling-tool for teens - our war on drugs hard at work. There are ...
I just saw this new at&t ad directed by Wes Anderson. I find it interesting on two levels - One, at&t appears to be shifting their slogan from "fewest dropped calls" to "works in more places." Apparently their strategy is no longer to be the least worst...
Two, at&t -- through ...
Couldn't help but notice these two stories about facebook today: Facebook investigated on child safety and Microsoft Is Said to Consider a Stake in Facebook. While I discovered social networking on friendster, moved to myspace and flirted with orkut - my favorite social networking service these days has been facebook. ...
"I believe that technology and culture constitute each other, studying the actors and actants that make up our lively, troubling and productive technologies tells me about the actors and actants that make up our culture."
:: sent wirelessly via blackberry
Back in 2002, a school system in Tennessee paid Edutech Inc. a reported $131,590 to install CCTV surveillance cameras in its 7 schools. In at least one of these schools, the cameras were installed in the locker rooms. The recordings of 10-14 year-old boys and girls, which were produced ...
