Blog suggestions

I spent the last hour creating suggestions for you. Then, it didn't post. Not going to do it again. My suggestion is this:

• READ.  We have many syllabus topics and many blog sites on this page.  
• I could post them all here, or you can follow the links.
• In the news:
• Megaupload (see Ars Technica)
• Class on controlling cyberspace (see http://futureoftheinternet.org/controlling-cyberspace)
• EFF notes Jan. 28 as day of privacy (see EFF)
• On the media (NPR) this week: http://www.onthemedia.org/2012/jan/27/
• NPR technology section: http://www.npr.org/sections/technology/
• Front page news.

 I can go over this in class, but it does take some thinking to figure this out.  Again, the blog has to be about technology and the controversial issues of its use, or how our digital world is different, including what the future may hold.

Disruptive Innovations

 Wikipedia defines a "disruptive technology or disruptive innovation is an innovation that helps create a new market and value network, and eventually goes on to disrupt an existing market and value network (over a few years or decades), displacing an earlier technology. The term is used in business and technology literature to describe innovations that improve a product or service in ways that the market does not expect, typically first by designing for a different set of consumers in the new market and later by lowering prices in the existing market."

Based on our readings (Disrupted Innovation and Autodesk case study), where they list a number of disrupted technologies, as well as examples I showed in class, comment on the readings or provide your own examples.

All things digital

In this class we discuss many issues related to the explosion of digital bits.  Some of these issues are about how our life is changing as a result of our digital lifestyle (e.g. online identities, life connected, social networks, moving to the cloud; how we read); others are about how it affects our work and business (e.g., network effects, mobile everything, disrupted technologies and innovation, where good idea come from); and some are about how the Internet affects our legal and ethical concerns (e.g., SOPA, ISP mergers, privacy rights, free vs. hateful speech).  

We will use this blog to post articles, blogs and other news that allow us to comment.  It will also help you find blog topics by reading the blog roll.