My first thought when reading the headline “Google Maps cars pull some user data” was “*YAWN.* Another story about ‘do no evil’ Google being caught
Category: Commentary
Leave Facebook–build your own communities (Starting with Twitter!)
The tide of opinion seems to have shifted against Facebook, and there is a growing movement to “Leave” facebook. Â Alas, many of us are finding
Right to Privacy, abortion, and paying your taxes?
The connectedness of… a newly selected nominee to the US Supreme Court, the abortion issue… Arizona immigration law… and a Pennsylvania tax amnesty commercial? Privacy.
Ubiquity or Proprietary?
As you may know, I am looking forward to the day when our “textbooks” will be digital and students can purchase them at a fraction of what they pay
The Problem of Pricing: Digital Textbooks are NOT cheap!
I have written extensively [1. Â See: Digital Book Readers (Kindle?) in Academia (an outline of thoughts), Digital Textbooks: Fairness in Pricing after DRM is Hacked,
Digital Education Resources: What price, adoption?
Access to the homework tool (included in the purchase of a NEW textbook) would cost students $10 if they chose to instead by a book used. Of course, that would only give them access to the homework assignments. There was an additional fee ($30 I believe) if they wanted to have the “PLUS” features, including the hyperlinking to the appropriate section of the text.
Digital teaching resources: How do we measure success?
Those that read regularly, or listen to our podcast, will know that I love technology, and that I also spend a good bit of time
Home Owners Associations: Democracy or Little Napoleons?
I am renting in a neighborhood that only recently has seen their Home Owners Association (HOA) really “energized.” Â This group spent a good bit of
Books, we got Books!
OKAY… I talked about this is today’s podcast at http://Getthenext.com. I have been sitting on this for two years now, thinking it wasn’t “ready” but
Economics Dooms Health Care Reform to failure.
In the last post I wrote about the perversions of incentives that cause the problems in the health care system. Â Let me point out that