February 2011 Blog Posts (4)

• The ongoing goal is civil discourse: all kinds of people having conversations and arguments about a variety of subjects and treating each other decently.
• Authentic conversations -- from the head, the heart, and the gut
• A feeling of ownership. Participants become evangelists.
• A spirit of group creativity, experimentation, exploration, good…

Abstract: This paper argues that fundamental problems in the way that knowledge is represented and accessed on the Internet prevent the Internet from achieving its full, positive potential in education. Among these fundamental problems are intrinsic deficiencies in keyword search technologies, deficiencies that place undue burdens upon student, teacher, and researcher alike. Vannevar Bush’s 1945 article “As We May Think” is used as a framework for discussing in a historical…

Email

107 trillion – The number of emails sent on the Internet in 2010.

294 billion – Average number of email messages per day.

1.88 billion – The number of email users worldwide.

480 million – New email users since the year before.

89.1% – The share of emails that were spam.

262 billion – The number of spam emails per day (assuming 89% are spam).

2.9 billion – The number of email accounts worldwide.

25% – Share of email accounts that…

This is a qualitative research report I wrote for the University of Ottawa.

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Feedback and constructive criticism quite welcome. I'm curious to see what this community thinks of…