Amazon.com Store
As you can see, I have set up a new Amazon.com Store for I Think. I selected a number of books I am using in my classes and I have linked them to the main page. The store is quite primitive, but…
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Art, Technology and Death: A Love Story – Newsweek Society
Art, Technology and Death: A Love Story – Newsweek Society – MSNBC.com Truly, Madly, Deeply Theresa Duncan created acclaimed videogames. Jeremy Blake was a digital-art pioneer. They were talented, successful and in love. And then they committed suicide. How the technology that…
The death and rebirth of Urizenus Sklar
Peter Ludlow’s (aka Urizenus Sklar) adventures in cyberspace, especially in what is now known as the Metaverse, are legendary and the stuff of legend. His latest book, coming up in October, which I had the privilege to read as a pre-print manuscript,…
Otherpedias
I got a friendly email reminding me that there is (intelligent) life in the wiki universe…. Top 7 Alternatives to Wikipedia | OEDb Touting itself as “the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit”, its no wonder that Wikipedia has garnered so much…
The Net that watches you
At their most sinister networks are seen as fishnets, entangaling, suffocating and all seeing. A network that watches you actively is usually called something else. The Matrix. Feature – Working the Camera Feature – Working the Camera: Real-Time Grid-Powered Surveillance The inside…
Wikipedia, quick fix in a hurry makes ginormous traffic
The Pew Internet and American Life poll on Wikipedia use highlights the obvious: Wikipedia is the most consulted reference website. It dwarfs everthing else. It even took over NY TIMES, as per this HITWISE CHART. It is at the same time driven…
China’s divorce rate increases, only 1/2 of America’s
Image via Wikipedia The idea that cultures and societies stay the same is put again to rest by this little piece of news about the increase of the divorce rate in China. WP: Barriers to divorce fade in China – washingtonpost.com Highlights…
Privacy Boundaries, Sex, and the Blog
Last Christmas when I returned home to Little Rock to celebrate the holidays I had the opportunity to meet Robert Steinbuch, a central figure in a minor Washington sex scandal that may have far reaching implications for how individuals can conduct themselves…
Janina Gavankar
Ms. Dewey’s Dr. Jekyll is a pop music artist and a regular on the L show. Janina Gavankar
Uncanny
This is the only word that I could muster…
Buzztracker – World News – 2006-08-03
Connection maps of world locations based on article coocurrence in Google News Buzztracker – World News – 2006-08-03 Buzztracker: World News, Mapped Yesterday | Tomorrow Current World View – 2006-08-03 Today’s Top Locations * Beirut (08%) * Baghdad (07%) * Washington (07%)…
Alien Nation
USA Today’s Kevin Maney is suggesting that the 1980s series wasn’t all fiction, after all… There might be something New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson isn’t telling us about this spaceport he’s building. Something, perhaps, related to what the military didn’t want to…
A Chinese boom in technology fueled by Russian talent…
China has bought all that was for sale in the famed Russian science town, Akademogorsk. Formely the brain behind the Soviet military-industrial complex, the city, just outside Nobosibirsk, in Siberia, has for many post-communist years languished in poverty and despair. Chinese cash…
What happens here, STAYS here!
Have you ever thought about the Internet as a giant piece of flypaper? Or as a bottomless La Brea Tar Pit? No? Maybe you should… The Exponent – Purdue’s Independent Student Newspaper Web cam use requires caution By Sarah Michalos Campus Editor…
Should Internet providers charge more for premium services?
NY Times takes a moderately supportive position in the matter: The High-Speed Money Line – New York Times Are consumers going to start having to spend a lot more to surf the Web? Phone and cable companies have stoked those fears recently…
A network to rule them all? (My first retraction)
The “other Internet.” A network of networks created by peer-to-peer networking of wireless access points. An idea that has been the main buzz in the underground, punk networking world for some time. The FON project, coming out of Spain (see link below…
Hacking can affect cell phones, too!
It happened in Greece, but the company is British… Greek officials: Government phones tapped – Europe – MSNBC.com Mobile phones belonging to top Greek military and government officials — including the prime minister — and the U.S. Embassy were tapped for nearly…
Guess what this is?
A big name corporation (can’t tell the name, I might be sued, but it isn’t Microsoft) came up with this absolutely amazing innovative device… Announcing the New Built-in Orderly Organized Knowledge Device It’s a revolutionary breakthrough in technology: no wires, no electric…
Have your music (for free) and sell it, too!
As if free mp3 downloading wasn’t aggravation enough for the music industry… Preloaded iPods prompt legal ponderings By Kevin Maney, USA TODAY A blossoming trade in Apple iPods and other digital devices pre-loaded with movies, TV shows and thousands of songs is…
The Google saga continues
It’s official, in exchange for better acess to the Chinese market Google agrees to censor the searches requested by Chinese users. FOXNews.com – Technology News – China’s Google Search Engine to Be Censored SAN FRANCISCO — Online search engine leader Google Inc.…
The Coming Tug of War Over the Internet
Is this a form of business discrimination/monopolistic behavior, or just an attempt to make the Internet a little bit more efficient? But the nation’s largest telephone companies have a new business plan, and if it comes to pass you may one day…
The China Internet Syndrome
Since none of our guests specializes in policy issues, especially in an international context, I would like to suggest the following story as a subject of online (via this blog) debate. This is one of the several topics I will propose between…
Slay the beast! (The desktop computer, that is)
A piece of news I plucked from the Purdue News Service stream made my heart leap with joy. Two of my Purdue colleagues have won the Microsoft competition for designing the computer of the future. Their design slaughters the desktop computer to…
Court Dismisses Yahoo Free Speech Suit – Yahoo! News
The potential ground-breaking lawsuit France vs. Yahoo! will soldier on in the American justice system for an undetermined period of time. After the French courts imposed a 15 million dollar fine on Yahoo! for not taking down Nazi paraphernalia from a US-based…
A Mac/PC desktop
Apple’s switch to Intel chips raises the possibility of running both Mac OS X (the mac operating system) and Windows on the same computer. Basically you can choose, at boot up, what do you want your computer to be today, a Mac…
Writing Inverted Pyramids in Cyberspace (Alertbox)
Nielsen made the point a while back (1996) that writing on the web should be chunky, a thing that is generally known, but he added, a thing we are only dimly aware of, that the inverted pyramid convention still applies to this…