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Tweets
- RT @lizlosh: "If you don't know your state variables you don't know yourself" and calls to "occupy health" #futurehealthsd #quantifiedself 8 hrs ago
- Were I still a student, or pre-tenure, I would so be at the Summer Research Institute for the Science of STS: http://t.co/Vhc2cCi2 8 hrs ago
- Can't be real: http://t.co/98gVZNvA 14 hrs ago
- Here at Security Concepts, we're predicting the end of crime in Old Detroit within 40 days. There's a new guy in town. http://t.co/7uT6EQCR 1 day ago
- @eknight I have a bad feeling about this. 1 day ago
- If only all car commercials were this good... http://t.co/lGc8HBud #fb 2 days ago
- Things I'm not doing this weekend: http://t.co/ZEW612Im #fb 4 days ago
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Tag Archives: Privacy
My Web Personality
This is from an art installation that appeared at the MIT Museum. It grabs information from the web and classifies the keywords. I’m not at all sure how it thinks I’m a big sports fan–I can’t imagine what words I use that are “sporty”!–but as the write-up suggests “It is meant for the viewer to [...]
Posted in Research Also tagged bibliomancy, branding, content analysis, Design, Web Analysis 2 Comments
Crimes & misdemeanors
The State of Connecticut has a list of criminal convictions since 2000 on the web for easy searching. Unlike other states, this one includes minor infractions like traffic violations. Nosy person that I am, I checked on some of my fellow faculty. Was hoping to find some dark secrets that would reveal something of their [...]
Quinnipiac Chronicle and administrative “oversight”
I haven’t blogged about the ongoing saga of the Quinnipiac Chronicle, our student paper, which is facing administrative censorship. An editorial printed in the paper lays out the problems: efforts to constrain the way the paper represents the university and its policies. The president doesn’t like how his position has been portrayed in the paper, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Journalism, Law & Policy, Learning, Open society, Quinnipiac, Teaching 5 Comments
You may not see my receipt.
I’ve been saying “no thank you” to the increasingly ubiquitous receipt checkers at the doors of (mostly) big-box stores. It’s insulting and an inconvenience. Generally, the guards are pretty nice about it. At Bed, Bath, & Beyond, they kind of shrug, and smile. At CompUSA, they actually shout after you like you are the criminal [...]
A small thing
When I was growing up, I dreamed of visiting “red” China, the USSR, or the DDR. I’ve always paid attention to defending against the worst case. During the 1980s, like lots of kids in America, I worried about the potential for global nuclear war, and our seeming lack of preparation for it. I worried about [...]
Rethinking the human subjects process