Monthly Archives: March 2007
Sketchuping, part 1
Playing with Sketchup and Google Earth this semester. Here’s an attempt to put together a model of a fairly complicated building on campus. It’s probably not the best way to do it, since I’m new to the program, but it works. Also, somehow in one of the transcodings all my blues went to greens, which [...]
Wikipedia editor abased
Who knew this story had legs? Essjay, an active editor on Wikipedia, who has claimed to be a tenured professor, is in fact a community college dropout. It turns out he used the claimed position to win arguments over content on Wikipedia. Heck, if I knew a Ph.D. ever helped you win arguments, I’d put [...]
Rising narcissism among college students
A psychological report that indicates that self-esteem programs have given us a generation of narcissists is getting a lot of attention in the media. The authors argue that decades of being told that “gosh darnit, people like them” has gone to the heads of today’s college students.
Moreover, it seems social technologies encourage narcissism. Jean [...]
Posted in General Tagged Augmented Learning, General, Mass Customization, Network Class, Self-hacking, Social computing 11 Comments
Wikimania 2007 CFP
The Call for Papers for this year’s Wikimania is up. It will be held August 3-5 in Taipei this year. Probably too long a trip for me, but for any of the readers who may be in Asia that time of year, it’s certainly worth dropping in on. They are looking for presentations of various [...]
Panveillance
Kevin is playing with using his new helmet-cam to record his everyday experience. I did this a few years ago, trying to record an entire day, using a webcam and my laptop. Mine was, by necessity, shoulder-mounted, rather than head-mounted, which has its own advantages and disadvantages.
The idea runs back to Mann’s sousveillance or [...]
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Media, Privacy, Social computing, Technology, Video, WearComp 8 Comments
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