I was made first aware of the WolframAlpha project by a couple of colleagues who were looking into artificial intelligence and were impressed with this new search engine that could understand questions and respond with natural responses. As of right now, all search engines have a tough time with translating natural language questions into data from analysis. …
According to Ellen Nakashima, the Pentagon is looking at the creation of a “Cyber Command Center” designed to be the central resource on the war on cyber-terror. The U.S. Military is discussing how they could best protect the national military cyber-assets, national security online resources, and the civilian government in the chance that there would be …
I admit, for being a student of cyberstudies and a strong supporter for open source, that I was late in the whole Linux party. I finally have a Linux computer in my office, and it has been working great. It seems that most of the barriers to entry with regards to Linux have been worked …
It seems that the issues that I get requested to speak on most during the last couple of months have been the issues of cyberbullying and sexting. Most of the time it comes in the form of an educator who has heard of me and wanted me to talk to other teachers about these technological issues. There was a rare occurrence that I had …
This is the first time that I’ve attend NAB/BEA, as oppose to the BEA (Broadcast Education Association) by itself. So, that means I’ll been here in Las Vegas for ten days when I finally leave on Sunday. During my time here, I did manage to gather some really helpful hints. Most of them were posted on …
(Writer’s note: I would like to apologize for the next series of posts, as they are going to deal with my dissertation and may be slightly technical. I’ll mark this post as a dissertation in the tags. Thanks in advance.) The development of a profile on an online social network begins with simple access to …
During the summer of 1996, I experience my first taste of freedom. Since I recently graduated high school, I had the summer to myself. There was no track or cross country practice. There was no band rehersals. It would be three months till I found a job. I had no responsiblities to anybody. So, I …
I was happy that one of my articles was selected for Communication Currents, an amazing produced by the National Communication Association. Communication Currents is an online web magazine of the National Communication Association. This site is designed to translate current communication scholarship published in scholarly journals of the National Communication Association. Working from recently-published journal articles, Communication Currents makes scholarship available …
As Monty Python Flying Circus used to say, “Now for something completely different!” I am going to attempt to define two complex concepts and attempt to connect those concepts to the everyday world of social media. Those two terms are infotaxis and stigmergy. Both refer to a similar natural function, that is changing embedded information in an environment …
A reaction to Dan Patterson’s comment regarding the development of tools and technology online.