Digital Ethnography at Kansas State University

Marshall McLuhan speaking at Johns Hopkins University in the mid 1970's

From Robert Wesley McGrew's computer security blog. Describes how he busted the hacker GhostExodus.

A Ph.D. student who busted a hacker who infiltrated a hospital control system by analyzing YouTube videos that bragged about the process.

Nearly half the world's population now has a mobile device and more than a thousand cell phones are being activated every minute. The ubiquity of mobile devices will make new services available to billions of people worldwide who have not had access to traditional banks or credit cards. In developing countries such as Kenya - where nearly 80% of the population is excluded from the formal financial sector - text messaging is being used to transfer money to friends and family living in other countries. Moreover, new forms of currency are being created - trading cell phone minutes for goods and services, for example. This panel will explore the challenges and opportunities as banks go mobile, and how the revolution in mobile financial services will change the way we think about money.

Lower Merion School District is where the laptop webcam spying case is going on. Talk about little glass dots.

Michael Perbix is the school computer tech who is featured in a YouTube video explaining how to remotely activate the laptop cameras at the school district currently in hot water over spying on students. In this somewhat ironic blog post he warns other computer techs they should be blocking chatroulette in school firewalls.

South African teachers singing on a Skype call to Colorado.

I love the computer history, electronics history & navy history in this story.

I tried this tool for quickly grabbing part of a YouTube clip. Works pretty slick if you need a quick edit.