The first of these is an article that appeared in the New York Times on March 17, 2010. The article discusses how we expose our identities and characteristics on social networking sites, how that information can be aggregated and interpreted, and reiterates the maxim that essentially nothing is private on the Internet. The second is [...]
Tagged dictatorship, Internet, privacy, social mediaI watched this video presentation by Peter Eigen, from TED, and then looked up the site for Transparency International. Inspiring and worth spending some time at the site to learn about dealign with corruption on a global scale. Peter Eigen: How to expose the corrupt | Video on TED.com “”Some of the world’s most baffling [...]
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Tagged political cartoonsThe first one was a real eye-opener for me. Especially as I get older myself. The second is a video of Carl Malamud presenting his views at Gove2.0 Summit. I’ve been reading his material for almost fifteen years now,and it is nice to see he is as active and right on as ususal. Op-Chart – [...]
Tagged ageing, carl malamud, health, open accessObama’s announcement of his unfortunate decision to send troops to Afghanistan received some note-worthy political cartoons.
A surprise award prompted several good political cartoons. They follow.
Tagged obama, political cartoons, PoliticsReading some of my feeds at bloglines I came across these interesting links. Co-Browsing Tools: Guide To The Best Online Services (tags: cobrowsing library2.0 brainstorming collaboration tools)Tools for several people to simultaneously browse a Web site Media Literacy: Making Sense Of New Technologies And Media by George Siemens – Sep 05 09 (tags: media literacy) [...]
Tagged cobrowsing, collaboration, media literacy, monitor, web serverPresident Obama will be making a brief speech/presentation to school children on Tuesday, Sept 8, 2009 at Noon. You would think that was a benign and laudatory act. WE do live in times where the rude, crude, and threatened have a strong voice. In Stafford County where I live, the School Board voted to show [...]
Tagged obama, political cartoons, schoolsW. A. Pannapacker published an article in http://chronicle.com Section: The Chronicle Review Volume 55, Issue 24, Page B4 titled How to Procrastinate like Leonardo da Vinci. Here are the last three paragraphs of the piece. The second paragraph below was especially striking to me. Leonardo is just one example of an individual whose meaning has [...]
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The Web’s Stories, Embedding Silicon Chips inside Human Cells, Google Chrome Videos
These links may not go too well together, but they are the some of the ones I was getting together for my class, Introduction to Computer Science, the other day. The first is another good TED talk. Jonathan HArris talks about ways to map, view the stories, blog entries on the Web. Very interesting stuff, [...]
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