Monthly Archives: March 2006

Maybe later on the TV…

I was on WB11 News (New York City), on a segment of “News you can use” (to promote your network’s entertainment offerings). Yes, it’s pretty sensationalistic, but it got the facts right, I think. Anyway, if you were ever dying to see a video of me walking down the street engaged in conversation, here’s your [...]
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Goin’ back to Cali

If you are in or near Newport Beach this weekend (+Monday) and want to have a quick lunch with a famed blogger-prof / ne’er-do-well, drop me a note.
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Spamming for freedom

We are conditioned to think of spam as a bad thing. What if we really wanted to make a statement about warrantless monitoring of Americans’ communications? Yes, we can encrypt our email, but frankly, except for some folks on the tin-foil-hat margin (which doesn’t seem quite as marginal these days), usually the people who are [...]
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Learning Inquiry

Some time last year, a group at UB got together to write a proposal for a new funding track from NSF focussed on creating a center for learning. The CFP was unusual for NSF: it was highly interdisciplinary and considered learning in the broadest sense. So I pulled together some references and some approaches we [...]
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Sex in the syllabus

Time magazine is running a story entitled Sex in the Syllabus that includes quite a bit on my course “Cyberporn & Society.” It begins: With classwork like this, who needs to play? Undergraduates taking Cyberporn and Society at the State University of New York at Buffalo survey Internet porn sites. At New York University, assignments [...]
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Zipcar

I first ran across Zipcar when they started operating on the campus of the University of Washington six years ago or so. Seemed like a good idea then (though it struck me as a little pricey), but we had a car. For those who don’t know what it is, you carry around an RFID embedded [...]
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Britannica bites back

Britannica has finally gotten around to responding to the Nature article that suggested that Wikipedia and Britannica are not that different. They posted their response as a pdf perhaps as a way to make sure fewer people would actually read it. (Someone needs to tell corporate America that PDFs are great for some things, but [...]
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