Collateral Learning

Over the summer I gave a session at the Laptop Institute on the effect that technological advancement has on ethics as well as how ethics then affects technological advancements.  One example I gave was with music:  in the late nineties, there was a technological boom on the internet.  This boom led to Napster and others [...]

I think I’m finally beginning to recuperate from last week’s Laptop Institute. There’s something about working 16 to 20 hour days- it takes me a bit longer to get back into the swing of things now. Now that the conference is over and we’ve begun looking toward next year, I finally have a few moments [...]

While perusing my feeds (okay, cleaning out the 1000+ that have built up over the past week) there is a bit of a buzz around the blogosphere regarding the Google/Viacom debacle. Let’s face it- the free for all on YouTube has been officially over for some time, but the reality is that when a site [...]

In putting together my notes for the presentation I’m giving on “Ethics in the Digital Age” at the Laptop Institute in Memphis, TN, I ran across a posting from David Warlick.  I had the pleasure of meeting David a couple of years ago when he was a keynote speaker at the Laptop Institute, and I [...]