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In the newest issue of my video-podcast MIT Pro­fes­sor Thomas W. Mal­one talks about his reasearch on col­lec­tive intel­li­gence and the chang­ing notion of pri­vacy. Pro­fes­sor Mal­one is the found­ing direc­tor of MIT’s Cen­ter for Col­lec­tive Intel­li­gence. In 2004, he pub­lished The Future of Work, a crit­i­cally acclaimed book about the impact of elec­tronic com­mu­ni­ca­tion on man­age­ment, orga­ni­za­tions and busi­ness. Before he started teach­ing at MIT, Mr. Mal­one was a research sci­en­tist at the leg­endary Xerox Palo Alto Research Cen­ter. So enjoy the pod­cast which con­tains a short intro­duc­tion, the inter­view plus two exlu­sive bonus tracks

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Some of you may yet not have paid any atten­tion to the fact that I’m liv­ing, work­ing and teach­ing in beau­ti­ful Vienna, cap­i­tal of Aus­tria. No sur­prise, as I usu­ally don’t blog about .at-specific top­ics on this blog. But today I have to make an excep­tion as Aus­trian min­is­ter of sci­en­tific affairs Johannes Hahn recently announced — as a com­plete sur­prise to all involved par­ties by the way — that Aus­tria will quit the CERN project. Nat­u­rally, a mas­sive wave of protest has risen among Aus­trian sci­en­tists and a peti­tion has been put online. Read the rest of this entry »

Lonja explains the tech­ni­cal devel­op­ment of the inter­net in an ele­gant and nearly-hypnotic short video, only using picol.org black-and-white icons. Very instruc­tive movie — I will def­i­nitely show this to plenty of my stu­dents in the next cou­ple of years:

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Bite, lick, or tackle them back, or click here to the­o­rize about what this all means. I’m very happy to pub­lish the first guest post­ing here on datadirt. Kim De Vries, who I met via Face­book, wrote a very inter­est­ing paper about the sym­bolic kind of com­mu­ni­ca­tion we all know so well from social net­works like Face­book. “He who never super­poked shall throw the first rock” — enjoy the read­ing! Dr. Kim De Vries is work­ing at the Cal­i­for­nia State Uni­ver­sity Stanis­laus, you can reach her at kde­vries [at] csustan.edu Read the rest of this entry »