Planting Microchips in Dogs
In a country that is known to eat dogs, Koreans are now encouraged to tag pet dogs with a microchip to ensure the dog’s security. At least that is what […]
Category Archives: being digital
About cyberspace, games, digital life, Second Life, etc.
Waiting for an election bomb
As mentioned earlier in a post about my thoughts on citizen reporting (NOT journalism), NYT Noam Cohen writes about the recent Apple drop after unverified news regarding Steve Jobs’ health. […]
So-called social networks encourage digital narcissism
Social networks aren’t doing their job. Or at least people in my networks aren’t socializing in social networks. I suppose it’s because the “social” in “social network” has multiple meanings. […]
Obama Campaign and Games
When Alec Ross said that the Obama campaign was “citizen-centered” and that it invested in new media tools, I bet he wasn’t referring to games. But Obama fans have taken […]
Notes from Uncertain Internet panel
Notes from Uncertain Internet: Core Net Values for the TBD Administration. Moderated by Jonathan Zittrain, Featuring panelists Susan Crawford (UMich Law), Alec Ross (tech policy advisor to Barack Obama), and […]
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 […]
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 […]
D. Yvette Wohn 