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Outage after Marathon Bombings Prompts Emergency Network Proposal | MIT Technology Review - http://www.technologyreview.com/view...
"When professional responders are performing their vital jobs but others cannot easily communicate, these approaches can empower citizens, not-for-profits, and companies, helping them communicate and possibly provide other necessary assistance. In this mutual aid configuration, the more people affect
- Todd Suomela
The Future Isn’t What It Used to Be — Editor's Picks — Medium - https://medium.com/editors...
"The two reasons I’ve just described as to why the future remains as such — profit motive and device isolation — are obviously not entirely unrelated. In fact, they could be considered two sides of the same Bitcoin. However, there’s still value in examining each individually before bringing them toge
- Todd Suomela
Jerry Brown's Political Reboot - James Fallows - The Atlantic - http://www.theatlantic.com/magazin...
"The truth is that a reliance on rules and a mistrust of mere politicians have come close to ruining public life in California. “When given a choice between human judgments and formulas, we’ve always chosen the formulas,” Joe Mathews says. He is critical of Brown in many ways, and yet he says, “I wou
- Todd Suomela
Yellowstone Wolf Project Citizen Science - http://www.psu.edu/feature...
"Huck Institutes graduate student Emily Almberg harnesses the passion of the wolf-watching community with a citizen science website aimed at improving research and public awareness."
- Todd Suomela
There is a disconnect between the philosophy of science as it is practiced by philosophers and the philosophy of science as it is interpreted by scientists. I think this difference is the main reason why the paradigm battles between quantitative and qualitative or positivist and interpretivist are still being fought so hard today. I'm wondering... - http://toddsuomela.com/blog...
There is a disconnect between the philosophy of science as it is practiced by philosophers and the philosophy of science as it is interpreted by scientists. I think this difference is the main reason why the paradigm battles between quantitative and qualitative or positivist and interpretivist are still being fought so hard today. I'm wondering... - http://toddsuomela.com/blog...
Public’s Knowledge of Science and Technology | Pew Research Center for the People and the Press - http://www.people-press.org/2013...
"The public’s knowledge of science and technology varies widely across a range of questions on current topics and basic scientific concepts, according to a new quiz by the Pew Research Center and Smithsonian magazine."
- Todd Suomela
Evgeny Morozov attacks internet consensus single-handed | openDemocracy - http://www.opendemocracy.net/geert-l...
"Instead of polemical cowboy columns, a systematic approach around key concepts and underlying traditions (such as libertarianism) could have a more devastating effect on the study of the internet and its political and social potential."
- Todd Suomela
How to Earn Your Skeptic “Badge” - http://henryjenkins.org/2012...
"As someone who helped to build up the current field of Digital Media and Learning, I am concerned that, if badges start to feel too much like a “party line,” many are going to feel excluded from the field. This has the potential to be the first major divide in a field which many of us see as our int
- Todd Suomela
Harlot: A Revealing Look at the Arts of Persuasion - http://harlotofthearts.org/index...
"Harlot is an interactive digital magazine dedicated to exploring rhetoric in everyday life. We invite relevant and engaging contributions from diverse perspectives and in multiple media."
- Todd Suomela
#overlyhonestmethods - Imgur - http://imgur.com/a/x77kL
A 'Whom Do You Hang With?' Map of America : Krulwich Wonders... : NPR - http://www.npr.org/blogs...
"I would call it, for the moment, "The Part Of America Kansas City Hangs With" because that's what this map is saying. It's a new, intriguing way to see our country. This one was built by tracking dollar bill circulation. There've been similar maps built from phone call data. The idea here is to show
- Todd Suomela
Leading Voices in the Denier Choir: Conservative Columnists’ Dismissal of Global Warming and Denigration of Climate Science - http://abs.sagepub.com/content...
"The conservative “echo chamber” is a crucial element of the climate change denial machine. Although social scientists have begun to examine the role of conservative media in the denial campaign, this article reports the first examination of conservative newspaper columnists. Syndicated columnists ar
- Todd Suomela
The Most Common Leadership Model - And Why It's Broken - Forbes - http://www.forbes.com/sites...
"When organizations’ hire, develop, and promote leaders using a competency-based model, they’re unwittingly incubating failure. Nothing fractures corporate culture faster, and eviscerates talent development efforts more rapidly, than rewarding the wrong people for the wrong reasons. Don’t reward tech
- Todd Suomela
The Meme Hustler | Evgeny Morozov | The Baffler - http://thebaffler.com/past...
"The enduring emptiness of our technology debates has one main cause, and his name is Tim O’Reilly. The founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media, a seemingly omnipotent publisher of technology books and a tireless organizer of trendy conferences, O’Reilly is one of the most influential thinkers in Silicon V
- Todd Suomela
Patterns of Refactored Agency - http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2012...
"I’ve found it to be a good general-purpose cognitive tool to try to see the world with agency located in unconventional places. Normally, we like to imagine ourselves as the chief agents in our lives – making choices, taking actions, pursuing our own interests that we have identified for ourselves.
- Todd Suomela
A Thousand Kinds of Life: Culture, Nature, and Anthropology | Dissent Magazine - http://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_...
"In the latest twist in an unusually public academic dispute, one of the world’s most influential and highly regarded anthropologists resigned in protest from the prestigious National Academy of Sciences in late February. In quitting the academy, Marshall Sahlins took aim in part at the work of fello
- Todd Suomela
Collaboration: Link the world's best investigators : Nature : Nature Publishing Group tags: science collaboration innovation The Locust Economy "Thinking about locusts and the behavior of customers around services like Groupon, I’ve become convinced that the phrase “sharing economy” is mostly a case of putting lipstick on a pig. What we have... - http://toddsuomela.com/2013...
The Locust Economy - http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2013...
"Thinking about locusts and the behavior of customers around services like Groupon, I’ve become convinced that the phrase “sharing economy” is mostly a case of putting lipstick on a pig. What we have here is a locust economy. Let me explain what that means."
- Todd Suomela
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