Joi Ito's on board. We had a bit of trouble getting in touch with Joi, busy d00d that he is, but he's now on the program committee for the meeting and he's spreadding the word. [Team Polysynchronous – Just Differently Intelligent – – Just Differently Intelligent –] —– this is supposed to be neat, cool, […]

Used Hard Disks Packed with Confidential Information. Simson Garfinkel has an eye-opening piece in CSO magazine about the contents of used hard drives. Simson bought a pile of used hard drives and systematically examined them to see what could be recovered from them. I took the drives home and started my own forensic analysis. Several […]

What Would Our Forefathers Say About Open Source. 24 Mar 2004: “Open Source or GPL software will doom the economy, and is against the capitalistic foundation of our country”… so says Steve Ballmer and SCO. But is it really? I think Benjamin Franklin would roll over in his grave at Microsoft and SCO's view of […]

Brandom on Universities and the Pernicious Idea of Students as Customers. Interesting and apt remarks by distinguished philosopher Bob Brandom from a talk to the Board of Trustees at the University of Pittsburgh: The students are not always initially happy about being required to take these [philosophy] courses, though our exit evaluations of satisfaction are […]

Mcluhan's CBC archives. Also by way of Mark, comes these CBC archival Mcluhan clips…. [Networking Knowledge & the Digital Age] —— cold, cold media found here.

Signing Off. Gentle Readers, A few months ago, I made a vow to myself that this would be my last semester as an invisible adjunct. Since Iâve failed to secure a full-time position in my final attempt at the academic job market,… [Invisible Adjunct] —– it was nice reading her work:)

Real losses. Invisible Adjunct has announced that she will be leaving academia and giving up her blog. It’s a very considerable loss – her blog has been wry, balanced, and very very smart. It’s become the core of a real community. She’s going to be missed. [Crooked Timber] —- yep, ia is moving on. it […]

DHS. Homeland Security Job: Director, Entertainment Liason Office [Wizbang] ——- from the 'scary, really scary implications dept.' they control what you watch, they control what you know, they control who says what, to whom and through what microphone…… or perhaps they just want to, or perhaps people believe they don't want to, yet they still […]

Second How to Research Blog. adaldlkka kla… [Vlog 2.1] —— interesting idea, teaching blogging to research students so they can blog their research….

MacEnvy. “Hey, where'd you get the FireFox MacOSX theme?”, I asked Graeme, leaning over to get a better look at his monitor. All of the tabs and forms looked exactly like he was ope… [Catspaw's Guide to the Inevitably Insane] ——- new explorations into the gendered interface and the meanings of commercialization… perhaps.