January 30, 2005 – MichaelZimmer.org

No Place to Hide

Posted by Michael Zimmeron January 30, 2005in Information Law & Policy, Privacy

(Via Privacy Digest) The New York Times reviews Robert O'Harrow's new book No Place to Hide: Behind the Scenes of Our Emerging Surveillance Society:...Mr. O'Harrow provides in these pages an authoritative and vivid account of the emergence of a "security-industrial…

Seeking Better Web Searches

Posted by Michael Zimmeron January 30, 2005in Search Engines, Values In Design

Scientific American is seeking better Web searches. They report on all sorts of innovations happening outside the Google-Yahoo-MSN zone that the press is usually reporting on, including GPS-enhanced searches from University of Maryland, Shape Retrieval and Analysis from Princeton, musical…

Tool for Thought

Posted by Michael Zimmeron January 30, 2005in Values In Design

Steven Johnson writes a fascinating essay in the NY Times Sunday Book Review on the tool he uses for organizing and collecting thoughts - a wonderful example of an innovative information interface. Consider how I used the tool in writing…