I came across a haunting trailer today for a documentary by (of?) Josh Harris and Ondi Timoner called We Live in Public.  According to Jason Calacanis, who wrote an excellent email-turned-blog-post about the documentary’s subject matter, “It’s a cautionary tale about the dehumanizing effects of technology, a somber topic that we all need to consider [...]

Naomi Klein wrote a poignant article recently about the ways in which the global surveillance market is being propped up by the Beijing Olympics.  Her article is entitled The Olympics: Unveiling Police State 2.0, and it details how the Beijing Olympics are being used as an excuse to sell high tech, police-grade surveillance equipment—security cameras, [...]

I don’t know why I didn’t think about it before, when I heard about the United States Department of Homeland Security searching the computer contents of returning US citizens from abroad (1, 2). I originally thought it was ludicrous, of course, watching my rights dissolve as the myth of relentless and omnipresent terror seeped further [...]

An interesting article was brought to my attention via Twitter this afternoon.  Melanie McBride tweeted an article written last December that presents the complex issue of self celebration on the web through a particularly unsettling case of a Facebook group named 30 Reasons Girls Should Call It A Night where thousands of posted pictures depict [...]

There’s a great post over at Swift Kick Central covering some important issues about digital identity management. It hits on a lot of things I bring up in my senior thesis about the merging of information-systems (which I ultimately got from Joshua Meyrowitz in his book No Sense of Place) and what this might mean [...]

I’ll be the first to say that I think Google Maps “street view” is pretty cool. I’ve been to practically all the major US cities from my studio apartment. How cool is that? Only wish I could use it on my BlackJack II as demonstrated in the Android video posted below. Anyways, last night I [...]