It is a rare occurrence that I would stumble across a timely topic. However, it seems that my theoretical academic discussion has turned into a real-world threat. I’ve been working all day, and I finished eating dinner when I see the warning issued by Twitter. The questions that I asked from the last post seem …
Twitterkins lead me down another thought path when he tweeted me “who’d impersonate me when they’d gain nothing? Do identity thieves twitter? Like, to make it ‘look good?’” I really don’t have a good answer to this question. Also, I figured that this question deserved more than a simple 140 character answer. So, I figured I …
I was having a conversation with my wife about the Twilight Zone. Every year the Sci-Fi channel as a 24-hour marathon of most of the episodes. My wife was telling me about her favorite episode “The Changing of the Guard” and how it makes her cry everytime she sees it. During this talk, Paul F. …
I want to apologize for not posting in the past couple of weeks. It seems that my life as a retail superstar has interfered with my ability to act as an academic, let alone a public academic. So, I might as well attempt to write something before the end of the year. As my relatives …
It was hard for me to start writing this week. Suffering from a combination of writer’s block and a series of allergies made it tough to put words on the screen. However, there came from the Internet a significant amount of chatter that the writer’s block or sickness didn’t matter anymore. The discussion among those …
I’ve been using Ping.fm for almost a month and what I noticed that the service allows me to form my thoughts without worrying about how it may fit into the structure of most of the social networking sites. However, there has been a backlash against the use of such a “megaphone” application like Ping.fm. The …
First of all, the Association of Internet Researchers held a fantastic conference this year at the IT University of Copenhagen. The building is indeed an architectural work of art and is a beautiful complement to the learning that occurs in this institution. I feel that sharing what I’ve learned during the conference is my small …