What would Norman say about the Olympic pictograms through the ages? Are they simple enough?
Clickity-Clack
Frontline: Digital Nation
Thanks to Jamie Oberdick (Twitter @JamieOber) for pointing this out. You can watch the whole show online (which actually seems a little ironic, given the topic).
The Second Midset
The point of this historical perspective is to remind us that the last decade has seen transformations of a kind notable even from the long perspective of the record of human history. Our Information Age has been the most extensive and rapid in human history, structurally altering traditional economic and political arrangements on a global level and, at the same time, restructuring communication, interaction, publication, and authorship in all currently available media. Is it any wonder that many of us are wondering what will happen next — or asking how best to prepare ourselves for what comes next?
Really worth a read and a few thoughts from the class.
Public by Default, Private when Necessary
Once upon a time on Facebook, participants had to be a vetted member of a community to even have an account. Privacy was a deeply held value and many turned to Facebook because of the ways in which it protected them from making public mistakes. This was especially core to youth participation. Parents respected Facebook’s attitudes towards privacy and, in a shocking moment of agreement, teens did too.
If you don’t know danah boyd, you should. She looks at teen behavior in social networks. Her work is very smart and really insightful. This piece looks at Facebook’s new privacy policies and how they’ve been changed recently. Dr. boyd (she spells her name with lower case letters) was a keynote speaker at last year’s TLT Symposium … it was a killer talk and can be seen here.