October 2006 – Page 3 – MichaelZimmer.org

That horrid Google…On the prowl!

Posted by Michael Zimmeron October 9, 2006in Search Engines

In 1913, Vincent Cartwright Vickers wrote The Google Book, a children's book full of fanciful birds, including one called a "google": The sun is setting -- Can't you hear A something in the distance Howl!!? I wonder if it is…

Debrief: Social Software and Web 2.0 seminar

Posted by Michael Zimmeron October 8, 2006in Events, Social Media, Values In Design3 Comments

I presented at the Social Software and Web 2.0: Critical Perspectives and Challenges for Research and Business seminar and workshop a few days ago at Aalborg University in Denmark. My talk, "The Panoptic Gaze of Web 2.0: How Web 2.0…

Unblinking Symposium

Posted by Michael Zimmeron October 5, 2006in Events, Privacy, Values In Design

I just came across an amazing-looking multi-disciplinary symposium on privacy and surveillance at Berekely: Unblinking: New Perspectives on Visual Privacy in the 21st Century. The program is quite impressive, including Ian Kerr (who gave the keynote last week at our…

Light Blogging

Posted by Michael Zimmeron October 2, 2006in Events, Social Media2 Comments

Blogging has been light lately as I have been quite busy in "real life": I'm pleased to announce that the "Identity and Identification in a Networked World" graduate student symposium was a smashing success this past weekend. Well over 100…