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Omri Ceren is a PhD candidate at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School of Communication. His home on the Internet is here.
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Michel Foucault Archiv… Err, Resources and Bookmarks
Posted on September 2, 2012 | No CommentsFoucault sites: The Foucault Society and Foucault News and Michel-Foucault.com, and now you have those. Plus in a certain sense Open Culture since they have a certain affection for him, though they’ve thus far missed this video and these lectures.... -
C.S. Peirce Resources And Bookmarks, On Account Of How He Was Right
Posted on September 1, 2012 | 1 CommentToday’s Evernote folder dump: bookmarks on Charles Sanders Peirce, who was America’s greatest philosopher, who made the “key move” in inventing a coherent “individualist conception of the self,” and whose theory of pragmatism is – bluntly – correct: We show... -
Jaunted Roundup: Traveling With Children? Don’t.
Posted on September 1, 2012 | No CommentsA roundup of posts on crotch flowers, crotch dumplings, and crotch snowflakes. I also threw in a post about McDonald’s, because I didn’t have anywhere else to put it and kids love McDonald’s. From Jaunted, where I blog about airport... -
Video Metaphors Of The Day
Posted on August 31, 2012 | No CommentsIn a nice little fractal convergence, these YouTube videos are simultaneously commentaries on their own comments, and on the comments underneath every other video on YouTube... -
Anti-Robot Bigotry Is Pretty Much Inevitable
Posted on August 31, 2012 | No CommentsThe NYT Bits blog has a shortish interview with Steve Mann, the cyborg Canadian professor who was the victim of what io9 called maybe “the world’s first cybernetic hate crime” when his augmented reality glasses sent employees at a Paris... -
Old Geographic Information Systems Data Set Bookmarks, Because You Requested Them
Posted on August 30, 2012 | No CommentsThis one time, at Methods camp, I stuck a GIS course in my schedule. One: You can download all data for a given “summary level” in a state as a CSV file. These files contain comparison values for the 2000... -
A Photo Site About An Iceman Mummy
Posted on August 29, 2012 | No CommentsFor reasons to be explained in a productivity series never to be written, I use Evernote for (a) web clips and (b) updated topics but not (c) actual notes. I also use it to store (d) all my web bookmarks.... -
Jaunted Roundup: Airline Industry Ups, Downs, and (Of Course) Obnoxious New Fees
Posted on May 26, 2012 | No CommentsA roundup of posts on how much money airlines are making, and how they’re imposing ever newer fees to make more of it. From Jaunted, where I blog about airport security, the airline industry, travel technology, tourism advertising and social... -
Jaunted Roundup: Airport Security Sniffers, Underwear Bombers, ID Checkers, Etc.
Posted on May 25, 2012 | No CommentsA roundup of posts on whatever it is TSA thinks its doing. From Jaunted, where I blog about airport security, the airline industry, travel technology, tourism advertising and social media, and the occasional bevy of cute animals: How One Radioactive... -
Indexical Tweets: The Dumbest Promotion Of Social Media Ever, Etc
Posted on May 24, 2012 | No CommentsHighlights, lowlights, links, and reactions to social media hype ranging from skepticism to frustration to sheer disbelief, from the Icon Index Symbol Twitter stream: Outside of academia, pop science media, and the State Dept, this is dumbest promotion of social...
