- ARCHIVE / Relational
- Future Education
An interactive map, commissioned by the KnowledgeWorks Foundation, itemizing the factors that are likely to influence public education in the next decade. It is divided into five elements—a two-dimensional space listing Drivers and Impact Areas, and the factors classified as trends, hot spots and dilemmas.
- The Naked Generation
We write about everything. We capture it in photos and on video, and we share the links with online acquaintances known only by their login handle. It is too early in the social networking phenomenon to declare whether this practice is beneficial or not. What is undeniable, however, is that we live in a transparent age right now.
- Closing the open tabs
One of the major casualties for me as I finished my classes was the dearth of blogging. Having been in a daily groove for the Fall semester, it is a bit disheartening to see all the unclaimed days in our BlogSchmog calendar. That sad fact is one of many things inspiring some change this summer. Here’s a few things that have been slowing down Firefox for me, waiting to become blog posts.
- Bandwidth instead of Bumperwidth
The Ottawa Citizen reported last week that their city was attempting to cut costs and boost efficiency by endorsing telecommuting for some employees. Even for smaller cities like Bloomington, there is still an argument to be made in terms of environmental footprint and resource networks to encourage workers to spend less time in the physical office.
- A paradigm shift towards presence
Is microblogging something new? Young services like Twitter and Tumblr are seen by some as a natural evolution of personal presence on the Internet, filling a gap between blogging and social networking. Some say it is in the process of obsoleting email.
- Designing What’s Next
A central theme of disconnection between theory and practice was meant as a call to HCI theorists to improve both the communication and the pragmatics of technique. That disconnection applies in the other direction, too, in how we perceive and intervene in the evolution of the World Wide Web. Perhaps we need a little more theory in our practice of predicting the future.
- Stupid is as stupid does
There is an effort underfoot to filter stupidity from Internet discussions. Seriously. Although it sounds like it could be a headline from The Onion, Gabriel Ortiz and Paul Starr are actively collecting a corpus of data in the hope that some Bayesian analysis will generate a reliable tool to intervene before a commenter makes their stupidity public. StupidFilter got BoingBoinged last month without much reaction but popped back up in the blogosphere this week with some ferocity.