December 11th 2011
Call for Papers: Well-being in Contemporary Society International Conference on the Philosophy and Science of Well-being and their Practical Importance Location: University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands Date: July 26-27, 2012 Program Chair: Philip Brey (University of Twente) Organising committee: Johnny Hartz Søraker (University of Twente) Pak-Hang Wong (University of Twente) Jan-Willem van der Rijt [...]
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June 3rd 2011
I delivered this rant as part of a panel entitled “New Directions for Information Ethics Scholarship” at the CEPE (Computer Ethics Philosophical Enquiry) conference 2011. It was given as the last of four rants, in the early morning of the last day of the conference so I’m not sure many attendents really got the main [...]
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August 26th 2010
An outline of a computer ethics course I designed from scratch
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January 31st 2009
I’ve written before about creativity online and the failure of companies trying to stifle this creativity, but felt encouraged to do so again after having looked into the elegant events in the wake of a Stephen Colbert interview with well-known blogger and Stanford professor of law Lawrence Lessig – which quickly evolved into one of [...]
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January 22nd 2009
I’m not one of those Microsoft bashers, and I’m generally happy with my Vista, Outlook, Windows Mobile setup. Part of the reason why I’ve been happy with it is because of a splendid initiative called xda-developers. In short, xda-developers is a forum where bright minds spend their creative energy on optimizing Windows Mobile for HTC [...]
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October 31st 2008
No, not that kind of music tagging, the kind where you add tags/labels to your mp3 collection. What I want to discuss is a phenomenon that I’ve tried to be conscious about for quite some time: the act of deliberately forming strong associations between certain pieces of music and a particular place.
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August 28th 2008
Well, some headlines just lie there dormant, waiting for the right opportunity to become overused. That opportunity is here. The phenomenon that prompted the headline is called “Take-Away shows” and is being done to perfection at La Blogotheque. The concept is easy; pick up a camera and a cheap microphone, convince a band that this [...]
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August 11th 2008
So, I came across this listing the other day (can’t find the link right now) about the top ten comedy sketches of all time. It covered pretty much only US comedy (a lof of Saturday Night Live), and missed some of the best sketches ever — the ones that literally made me roll on the [...]
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August 10th 2008
I went to a conference the other day, about intellectual property in cyberspace and all that. The experience turned out to be quite surreal. When I entered the building, there were only three people standing around. One of them were shouting commands, seemingly to a technician that I couldn’t see; as with all conferences, Murphy’s [...]
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March 31st 2008
In various email lists etc. there have been a lot of discussion about the future of paper journals and the superiority of open access on-line journals. Although I agree that information should be widely accessible and that many (especially independent) researchers are left out of the loop due to the cost of subscribing to journals, [...]
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