YouTube from a Child’s Perspective
R’s little boy is four or five years old, and although he cannot fully read or write, he uses the Internet, mainly to surf YouTube. His main interest is the […]
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Hwang’s Law
This is an article that I recently wrote for Suite 101: Hwang’s Law Comes to an End- Samsung Electronics Fails to Double Memory Chip Capacity For eight years, Samsung had […]
We want REAL journalism
As a journalist, I cannot be entirely objective about citizen journalism- for starters, I don’t think citizen journalism should be allowed to be considered journalism as all. Although non-journalists have […]
Internet becomes murder weapon
The recent death of Korean actress Choi Jin-sil shows how the Internet can be used as murder weapon. It is not fair to blame the network itself- as a knife […]
Class Notes and Reflections
Some important notes and reflections from Monday’s class (Life, Liberty, and Happiness after the Digital Explosion). – Ken says, “Digital representations are, by definition, approximations. They leave out a lot.” “What […]
Privacy issues with nTAG @ EmTech
The Emerging Technologies Conference at MIT featured an electronic nametag, which was slightly fancier and a whole lot chunkier than RFID-embedded nametags that I’ve seen at other conferences. Made by […]
Aussies may back up alleged cloning technology
Australia’s intellectual property protection organization is on the brink of granting a patent to disgraced stem cell scientist Woo-suk Hwang on his alleged technology of cloning human embryos. IP Australia […]
Questionable Question Tool
More conferences and lectures are engaging the use of a live online question tool (or live interview tool), enabling participants to post comments/questions and reply to other posts. While this is […]
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