October 2005 – Page 2 – MichaelZimmer.org

Missouri: State Spies on Drivers Through Cell Phones

Posted by Michael Zimmeron October 10, 2005in Mobility, Privacy

The state of Missouri has begun a program to track individual movements on highways through cell phones:The Missouri Department of Transportation will spend $3 million annually on a program to monitor the movements of individuals on highways via their cell…

Paper: The Value Implications of the “Google Paradigm” for Organizing, Distributing and Accessing Information

Posted by Michael Zimmeron October 8, 2005in Events, Search Engines, Values In Design

I am presenting this paper today at the 6th International and Interdisciplinary Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AOIR). The panel is titled "Search Engines - Their Politics; Their Logics":The Value Implications of the “Google Paradigm” for Organizing, Distributing…

Let Wikipedia Write Your Next Paper

Posted by Michael Zimmeron October 5, 2005in Information Ethics, Internet

According to News.com, Esquire writer AJ Jacobs put a badly written and error ridden article on Wikipedia and let the Wikipedian community have at it. Within days, the article had received hundreds of edits, was cleaned up, proof read and…

‘UnGoogleables’ Hide From Search

Posted by Michael Zimmeron October 4, 2005in Privacy, Search Engines

This Wired News article, 'UnGoogleables' Hide From Search, offers a profile of Geri Agalia (not her real name), a person who values her privacy and is trying to keep info about herself out of the Google database: Geri Agalia doesn't…