April 4, 2005 – MichaelZimmer.org

Google Current

Posted by Michael Zimmeron April 4, 2005in Search Engines

[via John Battelle]In an interesting blend of Google's ubiquity as a place people look for information and cable news as a place to see what the nation finds interesting at that particular moment, Al Gore's new Current TV cable channel…

RFID Tags for Cars

Posted by Michael Zimmeron April 4, 2005in Mobility, Privacy

[via Freedom to Tinker]Educated Guesswork reports that Texas is considering requiring RFID tags on cars for law enforcement purposes (language of proposed legislation here).This is the continuation of a troubling trend of ways in which the integration of new technologies…

HUMANIST: HUMAN centered design for Information Society Technologies

Posted by Michael Zimmeron April 4, 2005in Values In Design

An ACM TechNews article pointed me to AIDE (Adaptive Integrated Driver-vehicle InterfacE), a European initiative to integrate information and communication technology into cars to improve safety. America's version of this program is the Vehicle Infrastructure Integration (VII) initiative, which is…

PORTIA @ NYU website launched

Posted by Michael Zimmeron April 4, 2005in Privacy, Values In Design1 Comment

The PORTIA @ NYU website has launched:PORTIA at NYU focuses on social, political, and ethical aspects of the collection, storage, analysis, and distribution of sensitive information about people.Project Team: Dr. Helen Nissenbaum (director), Timothy Weber, Michael Zimmer, Rachel Aridor, and…