Tag: internet

  • The Canonical Debate Lab is on a Mission to Clean Up Internet Debate

    https://anchor.fm/inthebin/episodes/The-Canonical-Debate-Lab-Can-Internet-Debating-Have-Value-e10ao4h In this latest episode, I chat with the co-founders of the Canonical Debate Lab about their project to establish a way to collect, store, and provide arguments to the world to improve decision making. I’m joined by Timothy High and Bentley Davis to talk about how computers, coding, and the internet can hopefully improve…

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  • Internet Debate Workshop in the Arctic Circle

    UVM debater Karen Nelson, one of the founders of the University of Tampere Debate Society with me on the webcam. This morning was my second encounter with the debaters from The University of Tampere, Finland in a debate context and I have to say that again I am impressed. We did about an hour and…

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  • Internet Privacy

    Talk about big aspriations: Pirate Bay wants to encrypt the entire Internet. Privacy is an interesting issue; I’ve been interested in it since I coached the high school debate topic on it about 9 or 10 years ago. By the way, I think that high school topic was one of the best ones that has…

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  • Summer Reading

    Professor David Harvey, an expert on Marx and Marxism is teaching a course on Marx’s Capital vol. I on his blog. I have to say this is really really awesome, but it comes with interesting caveats. First, who is this for? What good is teaching with no interaction? This is my critique of all those…

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  • Jonathan Harris and Web Aggregate Toys

    Just watched Jonathan Harris speak about his Web/Blog aggregate projects which take the seemingly random flux of online blog and photo posts and provide order to them in interesting ways. I suggest watching his TED talk, which happened last year. It raises some interesting questions for me. 1) Is the proper way to think about…

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  • Playing with Fire 3.0

    Playing around with the new Firefox 3.0 and I must say it is a responsive, light and very useful browser. I’ve been using Internet Explorer up until now and this morning I no longer need it. Here are three great plug-ins for Firefox that should have anyone who does scholarly work converting right away. 1.…

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