Monthly Archives: June 2009

Reflections on the OVC

By now I’m something of a conference veteran, or, to be more precise, a repeat flâneur at a variety of conferences. Usually I’m presenting at these gatherings, but rarely do I feel like a true member of the community of academics, lawyers, technologists, or administrators that I happen to be among. This could be ascribed …

June 22, 2009 – 5:30 pm | By Mark Phillipson | Posted in Academia, Social media | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (2)

Innocents abroad

This June a passion for Iranian politics is lighting up Facebook and Twitter. The rigged election and resulting protests feel like history in the making, so the spike in interest on the web is no surprise. Yet I suspect a good number of tweeters and bloggers now tracking events had never heard of Hossein Moussavi …

June 17, 2009 – 6:06 pm | By Mark Phillipson | Posted in Social media | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (3)

Internet flooded with maps of the internet

Kevin Kelley, Wired Magazine “Senior Maverick” or something like that – & spawner of any number of trendy Pacifica insights – invites you to map the internet! Go ahead, you live with it enough, it’s changed your life — now render its landscape. Only requirement: somewhere on the map, please designate your ‘home’. Not surprisingly, …

June 5, 2009 – 2:19 pm | By Mark Phillipson | Posted in Play | Tagged , , | Comments (0)