Michael Zimmer, PhD, is a digital privacy and data ethics scholar at Marquette University
I'm pleased to announce that the first book in the MIT Press "Information Society Series" I am co-editing with Laura DeNardis has been released: Interfaces on Trial 2.0 By Jonathan Band and Masanobu Katoh March 2011 ISBN-10: 0-262-01500-5 ISBN-13: 978-0-262-01500-4…
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Beth Noveck of New York Law School argues for the development of a deliberative interface to "translate theoretical ideals about the goals of deliberation into...new media to enable individuals to participate in new and more effective social groups." She presents…
Yahoo! Research Labs released a beta version of a new search tool called Yahoo! Mindset allowing users to filter results on an axis of "shopping" (i.e., commercial) vs "researching" (i.e., non-commercial) sources. From their site: Find the results you like.Sort…
Korean and Finnish university researchers have conducted a new study into how cultural differences influence computer interface requirements, focusing on how Korean, Japanese, and Finnish people responded to different mobile data services and how those responses matched cultural aspects. The…
Today's New York Times article "Your Internet Search Results, in the Round" features Grokker, the graphical search engine interface that presents results in a spatial map.Currently, the major search engines have all limited displays to ranked lists of sites. The…
Insdie Google points to Lee Gomes's article "Folders That Now Seem So Yesterday May Be Very Handy Tomorrow" in today's The Wall Street Journal arguing that Google and others, revolutionizing individual computing by eliminating folders, are actually making things less…
There'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…
(via Question Technology)Ellen Ullman has a great op-ed in the New York Times today about computers and attention:There are unused icons on your desktop": this message sometimes appears in a balloon on the lower right-hand corner of my computer screen.…
(via Slashdot)The University of Southampton has launched a new semantic web interface, called mSpace, that it says will make searching for information online, and learning about a subject, much easier. They state:mSpace is an interaction model to help explore relationships…
SphereXP is a 3D desktop anhancement for Microsoft Windows XP. In their words, it takes "the known concept of three-dimensional desktops to its own level. It offers a new way to organize objects on the desktop such as icons and…
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