21
Aug
Posted by Douglas in Internet, Privacy, Social Networks, Websites. Tagged: beyond, death, digital, Internet, life, networks, social. 1 Comment
My friend Evan Carroll is working on an interesting project called The Digital Beyond. This project seeks to explore what happens to our online data after we die. We spend a lot of time creating gigabytes worth of data on all of our favorite social networks. What happens to that data when we pass on? [...]
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16
Jun
Posted by Douglas in Open Source Software, Politics. Tagged: digital, open source, Politics, socialism, wired. Leave a Comment
The latest issue of Wired Magazine features an article called The New Socialism: Global Collectivist Society Is Coming Online. The author, Kevin Kelly, lays out an interesting case for a new form of socialism. Today’s social networks (Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Wikipedia, etc…) are all examples of this behavior. After reading the article however, I must [...]
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14
Jun
Posted by Douglas in Learning, Politics. Tagged: california, digital, Learning, open source, Politics, Technology, textbooks. Leave a Comment
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is pushing for California to adopt digital textbooks in favor if printed ones. This is an effort to help reign in an out of control budget deficit. This makes perfect sense. We expect our children to cart around half their body weight using textbooks that are often out of date before they [...]
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