Archive for the ‘thoughts’ Category
Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Actually, it's not dead. It's alive and kicking. Mike talks about it here. We do not like to be offended. We do not like to be different. Ken talks about being different here. Yeah, but no.
I suppose we should be grown ups, as Ken suggests. I suppose we should protect ...
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Friday, August 22nd, 2008
I've been writing a paper about literacy online, and I keep getting really really cross at attempts to censor the internet. There's all this talk about 'protecting the children' and blocking unsavory images, or anything that offends someone's sensibilities. But I really don't think that censoring these things will do ...
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Friday, August 15th, 2008
I often wonder about the way people use their computers. It's almost like they are arcane instruments that magically make information available with very little input from us.
A new e-mail message, for instance, may announce its arrival as we’re glancing over the latest headlines at a newspaper’s site. The result ...
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Friday, August 8th, 2008
I've had this great idea! Why should the recording industries, both movies and music, get all the fun? What we need is a technology that allows us to restrict readership of books. No more passing books between book pirates.
The idea is simple. Each book comes with a unique visualiser, without ...
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Saturday, August 2nd, 2008
I'm currently preparing my lecture on Communication for first year Business Informatics students, and we touch upon Semiotics. Now, that's not an area that I have done a lot of research and reading or even contemplate much, except each semester when I prepare this lecture.
But I was thinking today, ...
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