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Losing a Grip on Your Facebook Account? You’re Not the Only One
Having a Facebook page is becoming more and more of a liability. Surely we’ve heard it all before, though. Journalists, authors, bloggers, and even occasionally incredulous Masters’ students love...
View ArticleHow Privacy Advocates Respond to Piracy Hawks: a rudimentary analysis on...
It makes sense that the salience of these two issues would be related. Anti-piracy laws and countermeasures tend to violate traditional privacy norms – indeed they are perhaps the biggest threat to our...
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Your Voice–Your Vote?
Facebook is updating its privacy policy and its users can vote which policy version they actually want to have. Considering the torrent of criticism about Facebook’s general approach to privacy, that...
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Exploring the Geography of WorldBank.org
“Once we become critical of the assumption that the Web is a neutral repository of information, the structure of the Web becomes much more interesting.” – M.H Jackson, 1997 Absences speak volumes, and...
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YouTube Still Appreciates User-Generated Content (For Now)
“YouTube is popular.” There it is, folks. The safest sentence I have written on this blog. With 60 hours of content uploaded every minute and 4 billion page views every day, the pre-eminent video...
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Mobile Apps for Behavior Change
Graphs attribution: Molly Norris, Conference Photo Behavior change is one of the most difficult things to achieve whether you’re trying to alter consumer purchases or harmful lifestyles. I was able to...
View ArticleThe New ‘Power of Now’ and the Perils of the Hyper-Present
With modern technology, living life ‘in the moment’ has never been easier. But this new nowness is far from what earlier advocates had in mind, and might only be distracting us from the planet’s ever...
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The Dance of Twitter-plomacy
UPDATE: One day after this post was published, Michael McFaul announced his resignation from the post. The New York Times wrote a frank article about him, where his Twitter skills took front and...
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Fighting Diseases with Smart Phones
A stethoscope made form an egg cup. Source: University of Oxford. Can South Africans tackle heart disease with the help of an egg cup and a Android phone? In their talk at the Martin School on Feb 6,...
View ArticleOrwell, Huxley, Banksy
Last month two new Banksy installations emerged, and they have something important to say about what we choose to fear in the age of the Internet. In the first piece, a stone-wall mural near the...
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Slow Down, Apple: How to Look at Technology in Education
Attribution: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ben_grey/5214909065/ On January 20th, Wired published an article reporting the results of a pilot study jointly conducted by Apple and Houghton Mifflin on...
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Playing with New Toys
Last week, I found myself in Nuffield College, watching a bright-eyed lecturer, Ilmo van der Lowe, in fascination. Believe me when I say that I knew less about the topic, ‘co-rumination,’ than you...
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Weekend Quick Hits
This is going to become a weekly thing. Just some quick notes about interesting things that have been floating around over the week and are worth a quick comment. On paying an unlimited fine, or the UK...
View ArticleWhat Privacy Advocated DO Get About Data Tracking on the Web
This post is a clarification of some recent work I have done, which I think has been taken in slightly a different manner than I intended it. The clarification is substantive. I wrote a piece recently...
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