Seeing this meme roll through the Web 2.0 sphere as shocked and horrified stories of adult children are arrogantly disgusted that their social activities are ousted to their parents is hilarious. What isn’t so hilarious is the whimsical childishness of…
A cyber warfare infrastructure: The high level architecture
How do you wage cyber warfare? How do you make a world wide reach? What does it look like? What can we count on for results? All of these questions are part of the process of designing and implementing a…
How to wage cyber warfare: Concluding remarks, Part 10
With this ten part series I wanted to get some ideas down and hopefully start some discussion. Over the last few weeks each segment has looked at cyber warfare from a different viewpoint. I’ve been told that my blog posts…
How to wage cyber warfare: Why we do not take cyber seriously, Part 9
There are a lot of arguments over why cyber warfare and cyber terrorism get so little attention. The attention it gets arrives in waves and departs. There is almost a decade swing between being ignored and being the hottest new…
How to wage cyber warfare: The super empowered individual, Part 8
The nation state as an entity is a conglomeration of power and social structure having a history stretching back to the Westphalian peace and treaty. This concept of nations rises out of western tradition that had recognized empires previously but…
The 2009 High-density Garden Blog – Week 4/5
This week is attack of the climbers! The pole beans have exploded and are quickly making their way up the tomato cage I provided for them. They are also looking lustily at the hanging garden’s wooden A-frame. The snow peas…
The distance education paradigm: A dalliance with success
What is the value of a university? The building and land have value. The resources and materials for research are often expensive and even priceless. The trade and product of a university is the talent and intellectual capital that is…
Assessing the information onslaught of protests and terrorist attacks via social media
When the terrorist attacks occurred in Mumbai local media was able to report extensively as it occurred. Social media pundits were able to analyze and evaluate the different channels of communication. Social media tools like Twitter with near real time…
How to wage cyber warfare: The relationship between cyber and kinetics, Part 7
There is a certain amount of misunderstanding about the Internet and the global communications grid. On the one hand we have a mythos that has risen stating that the Internet was created to allow communication in the advent of nuclear…
Lift 2007: Sugata Mitra shows how kids teach themselves
Sugata Mitra from India using a window in a wall tests with extensive rigor the idea of whether children can teach themselves with educational technology. This strikes at the heart of our standard thoughts on how education, pedagogy and learning…
The 2009 High-density Garden Blog – Week 3
After a great start we have seen one set back. The zucchini has died. We are not sure why, but it is definitely gone. We are planning a post mortem to determine the cause.
TED: Liz Coleman’s call to reinvent liberal arts education
This is an interesting if dry discussion on the current state of higher education and how liberal arts have devolved from generalized concepts to ultra specialization. At Purdue University Calumet a group of professors have tried to bring civic minded…
Review: How to talk about books you haven’t read by Pierre Bayard
Sometimes a book comes along that just by the title you have to read. In a rather thin book you find between the hard covers a discussion of the love of reading. The different ideas of how to read. Though…
Review: The Paideia Proposal by Mortimer Adler
This book as part of the movement that doesn’t appear to have gotten off the ground is an influential to me short story of what education could become. The book is fairly old so we can see how little effect…
Review: Blackfoot is missing by William Owen
This book is a work of fiction looking at the special operations forces working in Northern Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos near the end of the war. The author provides and excellent view into the fictional world of these actors with…