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From Schneier on Security

Members of "Anonymous" Hacker Group Arrested

The police arrested sixteen suspected members of the Anonymous hacker group. Whatever you may think of their politics, the group committed crimes and their members... schneier
From Schneier on Security | July 19, 2011 at 07:50 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Social Media for Customer Service. Infographic Impression

ReadwriteWeb on the topic via an Infographic. The topic itself is interesting.The infographic use is confusing. At first I thought it was an ad. Then noticed... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 19, 2011 at 06:52 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Wal-Mart

Excellent post by MJ Perry about Wal-Mart as the most successful retailer in history. Some fascinating stats on the retailer and its operation. Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 19, 2011 at 02:48 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Model Based Recommendation Agent

I became interested in a new recommendation smartphone App called Alfred, which recommends restaurants, etc, It is glowingly described and reviewed in ReadwriteWeb... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 19, 2011 at 02:43 PM

From Wild WebMink

links for 2011-07-19

FLOSS: Accept no substitutes | ITworld These sorts of scams were a serious problem that we spent a great deal of thought addressing in connection with OpenOffice... Simon Phipps
From Wild WebMink | July 19, 2011 at 01:02 PM

From Putting People First

Report published on Behaviour Change

The main conclusion of the Behaviour Change report, published today by the UK House of Lords Science and Technology Sub-Committee, is that ‘nudging’ on its own... Experientia
From Putting People First | July 19, 2011 at 11:24 AM

From Putting People First

Interestingly, the badly designed user interface of the in-car telematics system was the primary gripe among Ford and Lincoln owners and lessees in the latest J... Experientia
From Putting People First | July 19, 2011 at 11:11 AM

From Putting People First

Beyond the cubicle

Allison Arieff talks in her New York Times Opinionator blog about the design of work. Paraphrasing Nathan Shedroff, she states that furniture is not the problem... Experientia
From Putting People First | July 19, 2011 at 10:41 AM

From Schneier on Security

Telex Anti-Censorship System

This is really clever: Many anticensorship systems work by making an encrypted connection (called a “tunnel”) from the user's computer to a trusted proxy server... schneier
From Schneier on Security | July 19, 2011 at 10:27 AM

From Putting People First

Design and behaviourism: a brief review

Dan Lockton is publishing extracts from his Brunel University Ph.D thesis Experientia
From Putting People First | July 19, 2011 at 10:13 AM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Small Basic 1.0 is here!

Have you been working with Small Basic? If so you probably know that it has officially been pre-release software. Well not it is released software and you can now... Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | July 19, 2011 at 09:13 AM

From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

In a post on the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Blog today, Deputy Director for Policy Tom Kalil noted the Administration’s keen interest... Erwin Gianchandani
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog | July 19, 2011 at 03:00 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Renting Textbooks

Now you can rent textbooks from Amazon via Kindle and Kindle Apps. ReadwriteWeb reports that is not cheaper than buying a used textbook. The market will likely... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 19, 2011 at 01:13 AM

From Computer Science Teachers Association

Competitions Spark Fires of CS Enthusiasm

Students love competitions! * Show off their skills * Earn public recognition for their work * Collaborate with other students * Solve deep and typically meaningful...
From Computer Science Teachers Association | July 19, 2011 at 12:49 AM

From Wild WebMink

? Drinks With ForgeRock at OSCON

Will you be in Portland (the one in Oregon in the USA) next week? Simon Phipps
From Wild WebMink | July 18, 2011 at 10:14 PM

From Schneier on Security

Liars and Outliers Cover

My new book, Liars and Outliers, has a cover. Publication is still scheduled for the end of February -- in time for the RSA Conference -- assuming I finish the... schneier
From Schneier on Security | July 18, 2011 at 08:49 PM

From My Biased Coin

Rabin's 80th Birthday Celebration

Big announcement: We'll be having an 80th birthday conference celebration for Michael Rabin at Harvard at the end of August. Lots of great talks by big-name CS... Michael Mitzenmacher
From My Biased Coin | July 18, 2011 at 08:09 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Games Talk: Serious Play

I will be giving a talk this Wednesday July 20, at 6:30 PM in the Cincinnati area on the use of serious game mechanics. Providing details of a number of examples... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 18, 2011 at 03:56 PM

From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

Featured in 'Women In Tech You Need To Follow On Twitter '

On Friday evening, I was surprised to open my email after only a few hours and find that I had over 100 unread messages. For someone who almost always hasinbox... Gail Carmichael
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science | July 18, 2011 at 03:17 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

eLearning and Serious Games

Heather Thomas at the Trivantis blog has posted a good article on the use of game mechanics for eLearning. Making learning immediately rewarding and inspiring... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 18, 2011 at 03:06 PM