Monthly Archives: March 2007

Killam lecture 2007

Posted by on March 22, 2007 1 comment

I just returned from Dalhousie University where I delivered the final lecture in the Killam Lecture series (http://dalgrad.dal.ca/killam/lectures/2006/). The trip was fraught with travel difficulties that make one wonder at the false confidence provided by technology. My return flight was …

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Continuous partial attention syndrome

Posted by on March 8, 2007 5 comments

The Chicago Sun Times explored the idea that we are overwhelmed with data and cognitively suffering from multitasking in an interesting piece this week: http://tinyurl.com/24ajsp. And for once, the journalist actually reported what I said accurately. The angle taken seems …

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Wikipedia antics

Posted by on March 6, 2007 No comments

Seems an author for Wikipedia has been claiming academic credentials he never had: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6423659.stm. The question of credibility is hardly unique to digital authors but this news will confirm the suspicions of some who find Wikipedia just too questionable an …

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Connectile dysfunction

Posted by on March 2, 2007 No comments

On a trip to DC this week I experienced the other side of our networked world when engine trouble forced me to re-route. First, the airline set up a special telephone number (apprarently in real-time) to handle the customers on …

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