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How comfortable do you feel in a three-piece suit? “Professionalism” is a social construct, and like all social constructs, it's a total downer. Standards of looking professional uphold a lot of ugly “isms,” as policies with a racist, sexist, classist, and xenophobic core. Here's the truth about why the work we do should speak more loudly than how we look.
On Friday the 13th, I gave the morning keynote at the Online Northwest Conference in Corvallis, OR. Thanks so much to the organization for ...
Don't believe every number that you encounter.
The White House recently announced two major privacy initiatives.
Alex Howard comments on questions about ethics and ethos in an age of exponential technological change.
With sophisticated data mining, campaign research pushes the bounds of privacy.
If you’re interested in the intersection of the maker movement, education and equity, take a half an hour and watch the video Thinking about Making. In it, Leah Buechley, the brilliant mind b…
Yesterday Uber again caught the eye of the public when surge pricing went into effect in Sydney, Australia, during a hostage situation with people trying to leave the area. Keeping in mind that the…
Wikipedia is a paradox and a miracle—a crowdsourced encyclopedia that has become the default destination for nonessential information. That it has...
Why "start a Facebook group!" is not sufficient as advocacy.
Writing my post about AI and summoning the demon led me to re-read a number of articles on Cathy O'Neil's excellent mathbabe blog. I highlighted a point Cathy...
entrepreneur · investor · executive · data geek · privacy thinker · former rocket engineer · on twitter @jim_adler · musings are mine and not those of my employer, but read my disclosure statement anyway.
Image: theglassjunkieI don’t remember the time before I could read. Reading has always been an integral part of who I am, how I define myself, and how I structure my days. When work or life interferes to the point ...
A graphic novella about Big Data, privacy and the future of sharing
Courts have appreciated that even distributed denial of service attacks can be legitimate form of public protest. Molly Sauter on the insane U.S. law used to criminalize them and other forms of onl…
For many, the concept of the “data revolution” conjures up images of online transactions, genomic medical data, and ubiquitous sensor networks. But [...]
Good overview of what's called "Black Twitter."