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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Archiving Those Little Bits
Former P&Ger Kevin Roberts now Saatchi CEO on the Library of Congress Twitter archive. Via Richard James. Have written about this a few times, the permanent archive...
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What Does Facebook Publish About You? Use this handy and simple web page to get a full list of the stuff Facebook is making public about you. (tags: Facebook Privacy...
From Schneier on Security
Nobody Encrypts their Phone Calls
From the Forbes blog: In an annual report published Friday by the U.S. judicial system on the number of wiretaps it granted over the past year ..., the courts...
From The Noisy Channel
TunkRank Scores Added to FluidDB
For those keeping track of TunkRank, I encourage you to check out FluidDB, which just added TunkRank scores to its feature set. That lets you do cool things like...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Program me a story
I recently came across a blog post titled
From Putting People First
Ferrari F10 steering wheel is usability horror
Every year, Ferrari fields a team in the Formula One championship, and dumps around $400 million into developing and racing the car. So, says Cliff Kuang in Fast...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Getting Rid of Paper Receipts
Why have we not rid ourselves of paper receipts? In Storefrontbacktalk.
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Draft Internet Privacy Bill Released
Representative Rick Boucher, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet released a discussion draft of an internet privacy bill...
From The Noisy Channel
Google
I wish I could take even a gram of credit for this! I’m really proud of my colleagues for rolling out this new design that encourages and facilitates exploratory...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What do you need to know?
The Microsoft Job Blog recently has a two part interview study guide set of posts. In the second (Microsoft interview study guide: Part II of II) there was a long...
From Computational Complexity
Ralph Kramden: Your wait is over! 3D-TV is here!
(This was written before I saw Lance's post on gadgets. This post could be called an unintentional co-post. Is that a word? Now it is!) In The Honeymooners...
From Schneier on Security
Why Aren't There More Terrorist Attacks?
As the details of the Times Square car bomb attempt emerge in the wake of Faisal Shahzad's arrest Monday night, one thing has already been made clear: Terrorism...
From Putting People First
Service Design Thinks
Nick Marsh has been organising several service design ‘Thinks’ events in London: ‘Service Design at Scale’ (November 2009) and ‘Service Design from Scratch’ (March...
From Putting People First
Peter Merholz: The Want Interview
The founder & president of Adaptive Path explains why they
From Putting People First
Bill Moggridge blogs
Bill Moggridge, the legendary industrial and interaction designer, IDEO co-founder and now director of the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, started his own...
From Putting People First
The many differences between mobile and desktop interaction
Interacting with a mobile device is very different from our interaction with desktop devices. But what does that mean precisely? In a long article for the Journal...
From Putting People First
Reading in a digital age
Sven Birkerts wites in the American Scholar on why the novel and the Internet are opposites, and why the latter both undermines the former and makes it more necessary...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Art of the Twitter Pitch
Some good if sometimes obvious comments about the idea of the Twitter Pitch. Common sense ideas about how to use 140 characters to convince someone of something...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Using Social Media to Complain
An instructive example of consumers using social media to complain:Parents Use Social Media to Sound Off on J&J RecallMany Take to Blogs, Facebook, Twitter to Complain...
From My Biased Coin