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Author Archives: Ken Rufo
The 2012 Four Peaks Review is Live
The Four Peaks Review, the journal of record for the MC/MCDM community, is now available online. This is the second issue of the journal, and it collects some of the best thinking and analysis done in this program, and maybe … Continue reading
Ghost in the Wire: Why We Should Support App.net
There is a specter haunting social media, and no, for those of you that recognize the paraphrase, it’s not communism. It’s kind of the opposite, actually: the looming insolvency wrought by insufficient or unsuccessful monetization. Unlike the (first) dot-com bubble, … Continue reading
Ghost in the Wire: The Importance of Theory
People are often suspect of theory – you’ll hear someone say “well, that’s just a theory,” as if a theory sits just one or two steps away from a guess or strong opinion. We can see this dismissive characterization in … Continue reading
Ghost in the Wire: Three Daisey’s of the Condor
In the final scene of Three Days of the Condor, Joe Turner, played brilliantly by Robert Redford, confronts J. Higgins outside the offices of the New York Times, asking: “Do we have plans to invade the Middle East?” Higgins hedges … Continue reading
Ghost in the Wire: The Education Crisis
All this talk of Hacking Education and the crisis in Higher Ed reminded me of this old Kaplan University commercial, entitled “Your Time.” The logic of the commercial is pretty clear, played out through narration and visual imagery that shows … Continue reading
Ghost in the Wire: On Wikipedia Knowledge
With the news that Encyclopedia Britannica will bring its print edition to a close, we can, I think, officially announce that Wikipedia has become the default knowledge repository for the vast majority of Internet users. It’s likely been that way … Continue reading
MCDM Debuts the “Four Peaks Review”
We would proudly like to announce the public release of the inaugural issue of The Four Peaks Review, the official journal of the Four Peaks community. The initial limited release was announced at the 2011 MCDM Screen Summit, and now … Continue reading
WikiLeaks and the Conspiracy Problem
Writing in 2006 as the president of a then unnamed NGO and Australia’s “most infamous former hacker,” Julian Assange noted that “foresight requires trustworthy information about the current state of the world, cognitive ability to draw predictive inferences and economic … Continue reading
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