My interview made it in cut and paste form into the news article on last nights evening news — play the video to see it all.
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The design of user-centered design?
It’s been a curious week. I’ve been interviewed twice already by local media and suddenly an entry on user-centered design from ages back in this blog has spiked in views for reasons that elude me. The Daily Texan called me to comment on the new Kindle and asked me why people were so resistant to [...]
Facebook now makes you dumb, shock horror cont…..
The secret to academic infamy and citation is to find some evidence (I use the term loosely) that any new technology either enables or disables its users. Facebook, fresh from causing cancer, as if that were not enough, is now apparently the cause of poor grades. Leading researchers (well, at least a doctoral student at [...]
Medical evidence and the need for libraries
I just finished reading an account of the long battle faced by Abraham Morganteler, a clinical professor at Harvard, to convince others in the medical community that testosterone treatment did not increase risk of prostrate cancer. Turns out that despite decades of teaching otherwise, the ‘basis’ for this claim was a pair of old studies, [...]
Computer Science seeks sex appeal (Part III)
And in this continuing series, the latest CRA Taulbee Survey on enrollments in CS depts shows a 6.2% rise over the last year. This is the first increase in computer science programs in six years. Before you get too carried away though, the data reveal a couple of related glitches. Batchelor’s degree production is down [...]
Tweeting your fatty
I confess to feeling a little sorry for the much maligned CiscoFatty who seemingly (does anyone have the facts?) lost her job op at Cisco by issuing the following Tweet:
Cisco just offered me a job! Now I have to weigh the utility of a fatty paycheck against the daily commute to San Jose and [...]
SXSW success story
While ACM trawls for attendees at its various conferences by offering cost reductions to registrants (a first?), and other conference organizers worry about attendee numbers, the annual SXSW bash here in Austin seems to be flourishing. SXSW is not your typical conference. In fact, it’s three conferences in one really, if you want to spend [...]
Ipod wins the cup
Well not quite, but yesterday in the English Carling Cup Final (yes, they really did name the cup after the current sponsor, a maker of dubious lager beer), the match went to penalties and during the few minutes it took both teams to prepare for sudden-death, the Manchester United goalkeeper watched video highlights on a [...]
Facebook causes cancer….shock horror etc….
The Daily Texan asked me yesterday to respond to ‘reports’ that heavy usage of social networking sites could prove extremely hazardous to health. The full story is more prosaic but I have to say, I did wonder just how such stories get started. I noted that computers have always been the source of health risks, [...]
More name change shenanigans
Rutgers University SCILS is the latest information and library school to announce a name change, on top of McGill’s recent re-titling. The rather ungainly School of Communication, Information & Library Studies will become the (slightly) less ungainly School of Communication and Information. This change has caused more of a tempest in the teapot than usual [...]