I have been working on some websites lately, and this is one comic that I have come back to again and again. Simple, but very thought-provoking. Thanks xkcd.

Lately, I’ve been reading and thinking a lot about the Internet and privacy. It started when I received an email from a relative warning about http://spokeo.com because it is aggregating information about you and putting it all online. My first reaction was, “Cool, I can use this to find people I’m looking for.” However, my [...]

I really enjoyed reading Socialnomics, by Erik Qualman. Here are some excerpts that I thought were particularly relevant: “It’s important to free your content from being trapped in a ‘walled garden’ because people have quickly grown accumstomed to the news finding them, and there is no turning back…People expect and demand easy access to their [...]

I’ve posted some of my feelings about copyright here. I wanted to share one of my favorite videos on the subject … in case you haven’t seen it yet.

Recently, I was faced with the task of finding several people to endorse a variety of classes. I wondered how to go about it. I could email people I knew, but then the endorsements would represent my personal friends, not the more global perspective we were hoping for. I could go to the nearest place [...]

Recently I was in a conversation with a friend about whether a should resource should be openly accessible to others or kept behind a password. Because it was a very narrow topic we were discussing, he felt that nobody outside the group would be interested in what was being discussed. He was suprised when I [...]

I just finished When China Rules the World by  Martin Jacques. Overall, I was a little disappointed in the book. Jacques meandered at times, and clearly has a bone to pick with “the West.” For me, these continual attacks detracted from the book.  However, there were still some interesting nuggets as follows: Interesting graphs by [...]

I recently posted about the web-series Jer3miah. After watching the whole thing, I wanted to give it an enthusiastic two thumbs up and encourage you to watch it. The webisodes themselves were highly entertaining, but even more intriguing to me were the different blogs/Facebook/treasure hunting clues that are available. This is truly innovative! I believe [...]

I somehow stumbled across the “transmedia” series Jer3miah this past week. Much has been written about it, a great summary is available from Wikipedia here. Most interesting to me is that this video was put together with very little budget and by students. From what I’ve seen so far, this series is another example of [...]

I found The Paradox of Choice to be an interesting read. Honestly, I don’t know if I believe a lot of the conclusions of the book for me personally, but I know I am an oddball of sorts. Here’s some excerpts that I liked: “Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman and his colleagues have shown that [...]