Google prepares publishers for the release of Chrome ad-blocking
Joe Mullin, Ars Technica, 2017/06/05
Joe Mullin writes, "At first glance, it's surprising that Google, the world's largest Web advertising company, would want to promote ad-blockers." More...
A toolkit for predicting the future
The Economist, Medium, 2017/06/02
It's a toolbox with only three tools, but they're good tools:
Friends don’t let friends use Facebook
Doug Belshaw, Open Educational Thinkering, 2017/06/02
According to Doub Belshaw (assisted with quotes from others), "Personalised advertising isn’t useful. It’s invasive, and it’s used to build a profile to manipulate you and your ‘friends’." If we say this about personalized advertising, what do we say about personalized content. More...
Facial recognition tech makes it official: There is no privacy anymore
Cate Lawrence, ReadWrite, 2017/06/02
This has actually been going on for a while, but now it is becoming commoditized and widespread: "electronic billboards in restaurants and shopping precincts that utilize advanced facial recognition techniques to not only provide personalized advertisements but also measure and record the consumer and their response." Of course the proprietors don't tell you that they're doing this, but sometimes their actions are exposed by accident. More...
Toward a Canadian Knowledge Transfer Strategy: My Appearance Before the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology
Michael Geist, 2017/06/02
Presentation by Michael Geist to a Canadian government committee on a study on intellectual property and tech transfer. He suggests that the government should look at knowledge transfer more broadly, and focus less on IP and patents. "The emphasis on university-based patenting is misplaced. More...
Intro to Firebase and React
Simon Bloom, CSS-Tricks, 2017/06/02
Firebase is a new service from Google enabling you to create and manage a cloud-based database. Reach is a Javascript library from Facebook that creates dynamic forms. More...
Internet Trends 2017 - CODE Conference
Mary Meeker, Kleiner Perkins, 2017/06/01
Mary Meeker is back with her influential report documenting the latest internet trends (355 page PDF). This year's take: overall internet use growth is strong, but the rate of mobile internet use growth is leveling off. More...
Platform Capitalism in the Classroom
Ben Williamson, DMLcentral, 2017/06/01
According to this article, 'platform capitalism' is "a business model based on the extraction of value from connecting people into networks and mining their data. More...
From digital commons to the data-fied urge: Theorising evolving trends in the intersections of digital culture and open education
Giota Alevizou, First Monday, 2017/06/01
This paper could be clearer, but the mapping of trends evolving from open education in digital culture is important, as is the warning it contains. The trends are as follows (quoted, my emphasis):
Confessional technologies of the self: From Seneca to social media
Norm Friesen, First Monday, 2017/06/01
Norm Friesen argues that personal self-expression on the web is a continuation of a tradition of externalized identity that dates from centuries in the past. More...
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