My students and I keep track of the surveillance cameras in our neighbourhood. Why? We do it because we think that by documenting the cameras we can provoke discussion of what they are and why they are in our midst.
Some really excellent links that I can’t resist sharing, many from Twitter: DIYcity – people make groups to “mak[e] their cities work better with web technologies.” There’s a group in Toronto and there’s a section for Transportation Informatics. John Bollwitt at sixty4media muses on how local governments can make use of social media. It runs [...]
Perhaps I’m as self-centred as all those pundits say I am – as a member of Generation Y, I perhaps have a bit of a preoccupation with how awesome I can be. All I can say is that it feels a lot better than having a preoccupation with how doomed I am, because I imagine [...]