Archive for the 'Information theory' Category
NYT Discovers Data-Mining
Sunday, May 20th, 2007For some odd reason, the New York Times has an article declaring that data-mining has now gone mainstream:
…a wave of sophisticated computing and mathematical analytics that is moving into the mainstream. Fueling the trend are the digitization of information, ever faster and cheaper computing, and the explosion of online networks and data collection.
Sorry, Gray Lady, […]
UNESCO Infoethics report
Sunday, May 6th, 2007I missed this when it was first released back in March: UNESCO has published a survey on ethical implications of emerging technologies, “Ethical Implications of Emerging Technologies”:
The ethical, legal and societal implications of ICTs are one of the three main priorities of UNESCO’s Information for All Programme and UNESCO was recently designated as the Facilitator […]
Matheson: The Original Privacy Position
Thursday, July 13th, 2006David Matheson has posted an excellent essay on the blog*on*nymity research blog suggesting a merger of Nagel and Rawls into a theory of “the original privacy position”:
Perhaps we can make use of a privacy version of the Original Position; call it the “Original Privacy Position.” Thus, as before, imagine a group of individuals behind a […]
Google Q&A and the Limits of Knowledge
Saturday, April 9th, 2005There has been much attention paid to Google’s newest feature Google Q&A. Google Q&A (Google’s response to features already provided by Yahoo & Ask Jeeves) delivers factual answers for some queries at the top of its results page, to save users from having to navigate over to other sites and look for the information. For […]
Mind-Mapping and Spatial Information Navigation
Sunday, March 20th, 2005Today’s New York Times includes a story on mind-mapping software, “To-Do List: Shop, Pay Bills, Organize Brain.” It suggests that to learn new topics, organize ideas and spur creative thinking, people should draw dynamic and unstructured “mind maps” rather than traditional lists and outlines:
Ever since high school, I have relied on classic I, II, III-style […]
Blogs as Information Interfaces
Thursday, March 17th, 2005There’s a discussion at Jeff Jarvis’ Buzzmachine about what term should be used to describe “blogs” (the assumption being, apparently, that “blogs” is too techie, or has a negative connotation, or something like that). Jeff has frequently used the term “citizens’ media,” but Bill Keller suggested perhaps “peoples’ media” is a better fit. Jeff’s current […]




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