Category Archives: Social media

Keeping an eye on you

Data just wants to get closer and closer and closer, it wants to be petted, it wants you to play with it. Forget the mouse, the screen wants you to touch it — wants you to wear it. Actually, forget the screen, data wants right into your eye. Aided Eye, anyone? Small shivers of horror …

April 7, 2010 – 5:50 pm | By Mark Phillipson | Posted in Social media | Comments (0)

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)