Dmitry Sklyarov, a 27-year-old programmer for ElcomSoft Co. Ltd., was arrested after giving a speech at DEFCon, a major annual technical conference. He was arrested for trafficking software, which could circumvent the technological protection on eBooks in Adobe’s eBook format. He was charged with five criminal offensives. With his arrest came the first criminal challenge …
NCA Communication and the Future Interest Division By-Laws ARTICLE I – OrganizationSection 1. The name of this division shall be the Division on Communication and the Future of the National Communication Association.Section 2. The organization may at its pleasure by a vote of the membership body change its name. ARTICLE II – PurposeThe following are …
This is the listing of all of the panel being offered by the Two Year/Small College interest division at the Broadcast Education Association conference in Las Vegas.
The third method that I used in my dissertation was the guided ethnography. The purpose of the post is to describe in some detail the process I used and the rationale why I followed this process. This section began at the end of the interview stage. The ethnography was designed to be discussed with the …
There is something about trying to pivot after one major project into the next endeavor that forces a person to reexamine their process and workflow. Some people will apologize to the imagined others for lack of progress or communication. It is the easiest method to create a clean break and start fresh. Others might stare …
After finishing my dissertation, I wanted to archive some of my previous presentations. During the course of looking through old submissions, I came across the first presentation I did as a grad student and academic professional. Ohio University hosted Global Fusion 2005. My masters’ cohort at the time figured that conference would be a reasonable …
The following was my panel pitch for the 2013 SxSW Conference for the Government and Civic Engagement track During the course of previous election cycles, it is easy to observe how the ideas and the beliefs of the candidates at the national and regional levels get boiled down to sound bites and talking points. As a casual political observer, …
Since Merlin Mann wanted something to appear when they Google “sextodecimestrial,” I figured the least I could do was help. During the 16 months that I have been planning and organizing this website, I haven’t really taken the time to review the work I’ve done. That’s all. Yes, I feel better after this and all of the …
January 18, 2012 will be best remembered for the “blacking out of the web” as several of the core business of the Internet have either decided to blackout the site (e.g., reddit.com) or black out their logo (e.g., google.com). The focus of the outage has been the Stop Online Piracy Act or SOPA, the Protect …
Note: this entry is a response to a series of emails that were posted on the Association of Internet Researcher’s email list regarding the ability of an iPad to be a device for writers. I’m normally considered an early adopter of technology. I love being on the “cutting edge.” My first “portable computer” was a …