Two amazing articles jumped out at me the other day: Government Uses Color Laser Printer Technology to Track Documents If you have a color printer, you may notice tiny yellow type–the serial number of your printer. This strikes me as nothing short of amazing, considering that anonymous speech has been a cherished American ideal since …
Try this out: start iTunes and go to the music store… scroll to the bottom and select another country. Take a look at the top 10 (or 100) from other lands. For the most part, the songs are popular for a reason. This truly is globalization in a good way… …well, there is the whole …
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/17/technology/17spy.html People are throwing away their computers, rather than spend the time to disinfect them (a chore I’m all too familiar with). One person remarked that “she no longer clicks on pop-ups.” What?!? I didn’t know that anyone was still clicking on popups! The time has come for browsers to eliminate the pop up as …
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John is a PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin - Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication. He studies the social impact of media technology law and policy, with a special emphasis on copyright. He also is an instructional technology consultant for DoIT-Academic Technology.
John doesn't update his blog often, and many of the thoughts are probably half-baked. While the web has sort of an eternal memory, the current and future reader is urged not to take all of this too seriously.
Think of this blog as "John thinking out loud."
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