http://www.edtags.org/ http://www.edtags.org/css/EdTags.jpghttp://www.edtags.org/bookmarks.php/all/commentary Recent bookmarks posted to Edtags.org 60 http://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R811031000 National surveys show a steady decrease of trust in almost every area of American life. How do we decide who we can trust? And how good are we at judging the trustworthiness of our politicians? We examine the latest psychological research on trust. katiebda Sat, 08 Nov 2008 03:10:31 +0000 november08 trust research commentary http://www.technologyreview.com/web/21558/page1/ Wikipedia's standard for inclusion has become its de facto standard for truth, and since Wikipedia is the most widely read online reference on the planet, it's the standard of truth that most people are implicitly using when they type a search term into Google or Yahoo. On Wikipedia, truth is received truth: the consensus view of a subject. katiebda Tue, 28 Oct 2008 02:58:08 +0000 november08 trust commentary wikipedia http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/22/opinion/22atwood.html We are social creatures who must interact for mutual benefit, and — the negative version — who harbor grudges when we feel we’ve been treated unfairly. Without a sense of fairness and also a level of trust, without a system of reciprocal altruism and tit-for-tat — one good turn deserves another, and so does one bad turn — no one would ever lend anything, as there would be no expectation of being paid back. And people would lie, cheat and steal with abandon, as there would be no punishments for such behavior. katiebda Tue, 28 Oct 2008 02:38:08 +0000 october08 trust commentary http://www.cisco.com/web/about/ac123/ac147/archived_issues/ipj_11-2/112_evolution.html It seems fair to ask how long accessibility of this info is likely to continue. I do not mean that it may be lost from the Internet but, that we may lose the ability to interpret it. Even if we have skirted this problem in the past by rendering info into printed form or microfilm the complexity of digital objects is increasing so it won't be adequate simply to print information. katiebda Sat, 23 Aug 2008 00:36:01 +0000 august08 commentary http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2605&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en John Seely Brown was a computer enthusiast since before most people knew what personal computers were. HIs work as former director of the Xerox Corporation’s famed Palo Alto Research Center landed him in the computer Industry Hall of Fame. I sat down with Mr. Brown at a recent event celebrating the history of NSFNet, a precursor of today’s Internet, and recorded this podcast interview, in which he talks about how computer networks — and now Web 2.0 — are radically changing education. katiebda Fri, 14 Dec 2007 04:10:25 +0000 december07 commentary http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2603&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en “We are in a fragmenting culture,” she wrote, “where our certainties of even a few decades ago are questioned and where it is common for young men and women who have had years of education to know nothing about the world, to have read nothing, knowing only some speciality or other, for instance, computers.” katiebda Thu, 13 Dec 2007 04:33:12 +0000 december07 quality commentary http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2372 Mr. Vaidhyanathan, an associate professor of media studies and law at the University of Virginia, argues that Google’s library-scanning project could cause a copyright catastrophe by casting doubt on fair-use doctrine. Fair use is typically threshed out on a case-by-case basis, the scholar says, but Google is asking courts to issue broad rulings on the doctrine katiebda Wed, 12 Sep 2007 02:57:33 +0000 september07 copyright ownership google commentary http://www.re-public.gr/en/?p=165 Blogging offers then the type of solution to the private/public dichotomy that Arendt dreads. It does not release the passion of private life into the public, but deprives the private of its fascination and invests the public with a continuous repetition of identical personal experiences. katiebda Tue, 14 Aug 2007 01:52:46 +0000 kdqpp august07 identity blogging commentary privacy http://select.nytimes.com/iht/2007/08/08/opinion/IHT-08edcohen.1.html? Media Predict amounts to a virtual stock market for manuscripts, television pilots, rock bands and the like. Traders with the equivalent of $5,000 in fantasy cash buy shares in the material they believe in. Whatever rises on this prediction market ought in theory to be the things entertainment moguls should buy and back. katiebda Fri, 10 Aug 2007 21:43:10 +0000 august07 commentary participation collective intelligence http://www.danah.org/papers/essays/ResponseToClassDivisions.html I'm an academic but I'm also a blogger. For me, these are separate identities. I write formal papers that I spend months trying to find the language to properly express what's going on. [On my blog] I write in an off-the-cuff manner, trying to paint impressions rather than nuance. Unfortunately, many feel as though a blog must be formal & then they project this view onto my writing... katiebda Thu, 26 Jul 2007 21:53:24 +0000 july07 commentary danah boyd research http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19735915/ Negative op-ed about danah boyd's myspace/facebook class division blog. katiebda Thu, 26 Jul 2007 21:49:20 +0000 july07 commentary danah boyd research http://select.nytimes.com/2007/06/27/opinion/27friedman.html? Seidman’s simple thesis is that in this transparent world “how” you live your life and “how” you conduct your business matters more than ever. “The persistence of memory in electronic form makes 2nd chances harder to come by,” writes Seidman. “In the information age, life has no chapters or closets; you can leave nothing behind & you have nowhere to hide your skeletons. Your past is your present. katiebda Wed, 27 Jun 2007 19:52:33 +0000 june07 commentary transparency privacy authorship participation http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2156 In two posts on Britannica Blog, Mr. Gorman, fmr pred of American Library Association, has launched a broadside against all of “Web 2.0,” a term applied to a range of Web sites that encourage interaction and collaborative work. “The life of the mind in the age of Web 2.0 suffers,” he writes, “from an increase in credulity and an associated flight from expertise.” katiebda Tue, 26 Jun 2007 21:54:16 +0000 june07 commentary authorship http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/lanier06/lanier06_index.html Makes an argument against complete faith in collective intelligence by arguing that meta filters (e.g. Wiki) that aggregate many sources of info (many that are anonymous) obscure sources & decontextualize info, which undermines quality & credibility. He acknowledges that collective intelligence can be useful in some instances, but you need both collective & individual intelligence in a society. katiebda Tue, 26 Jun 2007 21:46:41 +0000 may06 commentary credibility authorship http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2007/06/24/viewing_america.html What I lay out in this essay is rather disconcerting. Hegemonic American teens (i.e. middle/upper class, college bound teens from upwards mobile or well off families) are all on or switching to Facebook. Marginalized teens, teens from poorer or less educated backgrounds, subculturally-identified teens, and other non-hegemonic teens continue to be drawn to MySpace. katiebda Tue, 26 Jun 2007 20:01:19 +0000 june07 commentary