"Og så alligevel..." is Danish and translates as “and yet in spite of all", the ambiguity of which matches the content quite well. This weblog is my outboard brain - an unsteady stream of whatever I find interesting enough to bother writing about. Recurring topics include technologies supporting social relations, digital communications, free software, and their implications for anthropology, design, politics, philosophy, and literature.
Privatssfæren er et grundlæggende element i åbne demokratiske samfund, mener sociologen Nils Zurawski, der er tilknyttet Hamborg Universitet og leder forskningsnetværket Surveillance Studies, der fokuserer på forholdet mellem overvågning og sikkerhedspolitik i moderne vestlige stater.
They sampled 3000 MySpace users and segmented them into rural and urban groups, and studied their posts and interpersonal messages. They discovered quickly that rural people logged on more often than urban users, and they set out to test five hypotheses: The rural population will have: h1 – fewer friends and comments h2 – more women h3 – more private […]
I’d like to come up with graphical icons to be placed next to buttons that will let readers indicate that some post or comment they just read is one that they recommend to others (what we usually see represented as a thumbs up, at least in countries where that does not have an obscene meaning) even though they disagree with the content.