Articles tagged with "technology and society":

Gmail afoul

I’ve recently been invited into the Gmail brotherhood (kgdavis). I’m pretty impressed so far. I’ve yet to decide whether I’ll use it...

August 19th, 2005

Meta-Data Normalization

It seems like there are lots of meta-data things out there that give aggregate looks at things based on user (or externally) defined tags.

Examples:

April 11th, 2005

Issues in IM (instant messaging)

Why IM is relevant

Hundreds of millions of people worldwide use messaging services for personal and business communication. This number is increasing at an amazing clip. Further, IM is being used for increasingly important tasks. This paper discusses the ethical implications of this emerging technology.

March 27th, 2005

The Piracy Assumption

Often times we hear that piracy is costing the RIAA, or the MPAA, or the BSA $x where x is large. Oh how business would benefit if only unpatriotic Americans...

March 15th, 2005

"Computer People"

I work with a computer.

I'd suggest that you work with computers too, as does nearly everyone. However, I belong to a group that is very misunderstood. To outsiders...

February 6th, 2005
Kevin Davis, 2008