Updates from “digital” academia
* Tracy Mitrano, the January guest blogger for the Chronicle of Higher Education’s Wired Campus section, has been writing some good stuff. She doesn’t present us with ground-breaking discoveries, but […]
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Touchy touch-sensitive gadgets
I have an LG Chocolate phone, an iPod,a laptop with a touchpad, and a Nintendo DS, all of which are touch-sensitive. But then the term “touch-sensitive” is misleading. The devices […]
Trent Reznor is god of digital music
A huge fan of Trent Reznor, I was extremely proud that Nine Inch Nails’ Ghosts I-IV was the best-selling CC-licensed Mp3 album of 2008, topping Amazon charts even though it […]
Social networking in enterprises
Andrew McAfee of HBS was the speaker at today’s Berkman luncheon series, talking about Enterprise 2.0, which he explains as being the phenomenon in which companies incorporate “community” features into […]
Hwang gets ownership of (disputed) stem cell technology
Hwang Woo-suk, the disgraced veterinary scientist who published ground-breaking stem cell research based on fraudulent data, is receiving ownership of the work he did at Seoul National University (SNU) before […]
Content Ownership in the Age of Cloud Computing
It really disturbs me that services like Google and Facebook are trying to own content hosted on their sites. Until a couple years ago, I didn’t see Google as a […]
Arrest of Korean Blogger Rekindles Debates of Freedom of Speech on Web
His screen name was Minerva, and he wrote on Agora, an online forum hosted by Daum, one of Korea’s top Internet portals. In September last year, he predicted that the […]
Sustainable Design for Harvard Science Complex
In a world that is becoming more aware of the environment, developers for Harvard University are taking an integrated approach in creating a sustainable campus in Allston. It all begins […]
D. Yvette Wohn 