The following is an email I sent to my father who recently read this piece at The Atlantic (The Philosopher Whose Fingerprints Are All Over the FTC’s New Approach to Privacy), which is all about Professor Helen Nissenbaum’s idea that the privacy of information is all a matter of context and breaches of privacy are [...]
When Jim and I founded Wikiotics almost four years ago, one of our goals was to make it as easy to exchange native audio recordings as others have made it to exchange flash cards. Our first step towards that goal was adding audio to our existing picture and text “picture choice lessons“. Now, I am [...]
OSCon was a wonderful experience, and not just because the weather back home was 30-50 degrees warmer. During the three days that Jim, our volunteer Jamela, and I ran the Wikiotics booth, we were almost constantly busy talking to interested people and showing off the site on our lovely borrowed monitor. (Thanks for the loan [...]
Jim and I are in Portland, Oregon right now, in the midst of two great events, OSCon 2011, which begins on Tuesday, and the Community Leadership Summit, which just wrapped up this evening. This brief space between the two seemed like a good point for an update. New blog First of all, welcome to the [...]
We’re living in a very transitional time for media, and some moments make that very clear. I saw a concert last night that brought together a number of assumptions about how communication and performance work that are all changing so rapidly that a few years from now it may be hard to tell exactly when [...]