How Not To Fight Terrorism
The Boundaries of 'Information' in Information Literacy
Peering Into Peer Review
Faux Protest
By Tracy Mitrano. Remember when Wikipedia went black over SOPA and PIPA (thank you Aaron Swartz)? Now that was a protest that got people’s attention and contributed mightily to the legislation being overthrown. More...
Sex and IT in higher education
By Tracy Mitrano. From the Ellen Pao’s sexual harassment case to Susan Fowler’s expose of Uber, the press is suddenly paying a lot of attention to the issue of women’s experience in technology. More...
All the Future in an Op-Ed
By Tracy Mitrano. “The Real Threat of Artificial Intelligence,” an op-ed in The New York Times, is the important article you can read and contemplate this week. Its kernel concept: forget the sci-fi concerns about AI, reducing humans to cyborgs; the real threat comes in age-old questions about the distribution of power among the humans who control it. More...
Should I Run for Congress?
By Tracy Mitrano. I have a sincere question for my readers whose thoughts I request to help me think through what has been on my mind of late: Should I run for the 23rd New York State Congressional District. More...
The Internet Party - What this country most needs
By Tracy Mitrano. With Republicans disgracing themselves and the Democrats in disarray, we need a new political party in the United States. How about an Internet Party? Its purpose would be to see issues from the perspective of information, technology and the internet. In other words, to think in terms of this century, not the last. More...
Resentment
By Tracy Mitrano. David Brooks, New York Times columnist and commentator on PBS News Hour, was never before my favorite but of late he has routinely been hitting the nail on the head when it comes to his assessment of Donald Trump and the effect that his presidency is having on the United States. More...