Thursday, October 6, 2011
I was reading Most Don’t Password Protect Their Smartphones – Here’s Why You Should at ReadWriteWeb. Sure, protect your privacy, ensure you security. I, however, have a point of view on the password entry to smartphones that is more nuanced. When you’re trotting around the globe in your 20s and 30s with you mobile phone in [...]
Two new posts from danah boyd are worth reading. “Teen Sexting and Its Impact on the Tech Industry” (my RWW talk) and “Networked Privacy” (my PDF talk). The Bangor Daily News is now running on WordPress with integrated InDesign. Interesting. Wonder if they’ve written up how they are doing it – I’ll bet a lot [...]
DIY Mobile Programming: Get Started with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Good resource. Five Questions with Zoe Gillenwater. An interview by Chris Coyier. It is impossible to say enough good things about Zoe Gillenwater. Awesome is a good place to start. Google and Mozilla Take Steps Toward Do Not Track is a post of my own [...]
Making things hard to read ‘can boost learning’ at BBC News says that reading something in a “harder” font can boost retention of the information. The easy font they tested was Arial at pure black. The hard fonts tested were Comic Sans and Bodoni, both at 75% grayscale. Does that mean that if I can [...]
Thursday, October 21, 2010
100 Incredibly Useful YouTube Channels for Teachers may give you some helpful resources. Apple’s “Back to the Mac” Event: All the Announcements at Mashable is a nice summary of recent announcements. No more CD slot – time to flip a switch in your brain to flash drive for everything. Tracking the Companies that Track You [...]
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
I’ll do anything for BlogHer. Even try out Facebook Places. I resisted Foursquare and Gowalla and other similar services. But when BlogHer asked me to report on Facebook Places, I couldn’t say no. First, I’ll explain how to use it. Then I’ll describe how reactions to it have split along gender lines. Finally, I’ll tell [...]
Last week Facebook responded to the screams of anger over their privacy policies. On the Facebook blog, Mark Zuckerberg explained Facebook’s new rules. Supposedly, the steps Facebook is taking will make monitoring your privacy settings simpler. Today we’re starting to roll out some changes that will make all of these controls a lot simpler. We’ve [...]
A blog post that makes clear the importance of long content comes to us from danah boyd, who knows a thing or two about privacy. danah makes some powerful points about what is happening with privacy on Facebook. Facebook and “radical transparency” (a rant). There are so many quotable points in the post. I will [...]
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