Papers and Power Links

Bernie Goldbach in Limerick with his Moleskine.

ON THE ONE HAND, I work with academics who deduct marks from papers citing Wikipedia references. On the other hand, I hear other academics who want Wikipedia references to their work.

I wonder if both camps are wrong. Should proper respect go only to those references printed on paper? That sort of standard would change my perspective on self-publishing but only on one level. I still think there is room for epubs but I want the respect of a traditional source. Plus, there is the matter of front page coverage. Nothing turns heads or gets framed faster than a front page shot.

I finished a morning of briefings in which people talked about where they see stuff they respect. I've got a Moleskine page set aside with things to do in the space of high brow print. Now it's back to the Skunk Works to give it a sanity check.

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Bernie Goldbach found a pertinent discussion on Reddit.

TOO MANY OF MY friends have gotten really bad at privacy. "You know what happened on 9/11" they tell me with bated breath.

They're accepting a massive deterioration in liberty because they cannot fathom what might happen. They're hopelessly uninformed because they've never worked with contaminated data sets. And they're unaffected by oversharing that so easily becomes a part of their socially networked lives.

Two generations from now, historians will marvel at how the first cohort of truly connected citizens stumbled through levels of protection that people need in order to keep their affairs to themselves. This isn't a matter of secrecy--it's all about privacy. Cory Doctorow explains, "Privacy isn't secrecy. I know what you do in the toilet, but that doesn't mean you don't want to close the door when you go in the stall."

My Dad's Hands

My dad's hand clapsing a friendly Bitburger.

AS FATHER'S DAY approaches in Ireland, I think about my dad's hands and how I can't clasp them anymore.

Dad was an honest man--more honest than me. He was a devoted man, a charitable soul. When I walk into community gatherings near my family home in Lancaster County (Pennsylvania), I watch people sit up and wonder because I bear a striking physical resemblance to my dad. But all they have to do is look at my hands and realise I'm not the real deal. There's nobody like my dad and nobody I'd rather wish "Happy Father's Day" than him.

Now that he's gone and another Father's Day rolls around, I'll celebrate his memory by having a pint, eating shrimp, munching on olives and shelling peanuts. It's important to keep family traditions alive by doing things dad once showed me with his hands.

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Bernie Goldbach is a blow-in American living in Ireland.

Sandy Pugh -- "My Father's Hands" on The Rural Messenger, June 10, 2012. 

Back When I Made Beautiful Noise

Bernie Goldbach was in the jump seat of Golden Bear over Golden Gate in the Summer of 79.

OVER ON AUDIOBOO, one of the most congenial social networks on the planet, several people are discussing noise overhead, in the street, in their gardens and in their earbuds. To each, their own.

I used to live less than a mile from several runways, so not only do I know the roar of a turbofan and the blast of an afterburner, but I also remember the taste of JP4 exhaust wafting over my morning coffee. All those things came crashing home to me as beautiful noise in an Audioboo.

Bernie Goldbach teaches social audio as an element of creative multimedia in the Limerick School of Art & Design.

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Selling Papers With Dirty Laundry

Photo of Deputy John McGuinness with @conoro.

THE IRISH INDEPENDENT is filling front pages with 1000 cuts of Deputy John McGuinness, an Irish politician who heads the most powerful committee in national government. From the newbites I've read, it sounds like a civil servant with an axe to grind has helped journalists cobble together a string of efficient Freedom of Information requests that raise issues every politician should answer.

The Irish Times gives a more balanced view of what's happening behind the scenes. In one article, the Indo spotlights an expensive office renovation without mentioning the incoming politicians don't decide on those kinds of things. Renovations happen whenever the governments change and as an occasional visitor to the office premises in question, I can attest to the worn carpet existing before the changes happened.

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Learning a Few Things from Twitter Analytics

Screenshot from my Twitter Analytics.

SEVERAL TWITTER ANALYTICS tools can now be seen by the public in selected markets, which means you might be able to view more about tweets that are retweeted, favourited and replied to. I'm learning more about word choice and time of day through the screenshot above than by merely viewing the actions of those tweets using Boxcar on iOS.

The change was spotted by Christopher Penn, vice president of marketing technology at SHIFT Communications and one-half of the Marketing Over Coffee podcast team. Not all markets can see these analytics because advertising campaigns are not in place in every country. In Ireland, there's no payment mechanism accepted on the advertising dashboard.

Three Felonies A Day

I downloaded the Kindle version of this book (cover shown at left).

THREE FELONIES A DAY: How The Feds Target The Innocent by Harvey Silverglate is recommended reading for anyone who holds liberty true. You can click on the image for more details.

From a major listserv, I learned Three Felonies a Day is the story of how citizens from all walks of life--doctors, accountants, businessmen, political activists, and others--have found themselves the targets of federal prosecutions, despite sensibly believing that they did nothing wrong, broke no laws, and harmed not a single person. From the perspective of both a legal practitioner who has represented the wrongfully-accused, and of a legal observer who has written about these trends for the past four decades, Three Felonies a Day brings home how individual liberty is threatened by zealous crusades from the Department of Justice. Even the most intelligent and informed citizen (including lawyers and judges, for that matter) cannot predict with any reasonable assurance whether a wide range of seemingly ordinary activities might be regarded by federal prosecutors as felonies.

[Bernie Goldbach discusses online privacy as part of the Emerging Trends module taught on the creative multimedia honours degree in the Limerick School of Art & Design.]

Get details on the book from http://openlibrary.org/works/OL5827943W/Three_felonies_a_day, from Amazon ISBN 9781594032554, from OCLC, from Library Thing or from Goodreads.

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Back Seat Tablets

Photo of Dylan by Bernie Goldbach.

I REMEMBER READING how Cherie Blair installed DVD screens in the headrests of the family car for her kids. Today, we have plus-oned her tactic by offering connected tablets to our lot.

This tactic is actually a necessary intervention because of our 24-minute homeward commute. At the end of a normal day, our kids often fall asleep between the ninth and tenth mile and then they don't eat a proper evening meal. This sometimes leads to less restful sleep patterns for the entire household.

While they're still young, I want to record both Mis and Dylan when they're deeply immersed in their tablet adventures. There's good value in simply recording the audio portion of their touchscreen actions. This week we are heavy on Toca Boca.

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Critical Processes

Bernie Goldbach snapped "Critical Processes" from his Moleskine.

THIS SUMMER I PLAN to spend 100 hours reviewing the topic of "critical personal productivity processes" and as I embark on that journey, I've sketched a first look at mine.

Regular readers of my blog probably know I'm constantly in pursuit of extreme personal productivity. And because I frequently write about the topic, it means I haven't embedded a productivity process into my working world. Feedback I received during this past academic semester suggests that both our third level students and my fellow colleagues would prefer me to revert to my drill sergeant mode. This means holding myself to a production line and by inference that means enforcing higher production values from students. 

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If you've an idea that would accelerate me on the path of extreme personal productivity, please leave me a comment.

[Bernie Goldbach features GTD in several creative multimedia modules at the Limerick School of Art & Design.]

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