How we classify gender has come up for the second time in a month. First, Naomi Gleit on the Facebook Blog, brought up the subject during a discussion about the difficulties that translating Facebook user gender classifications into multiple languages: [W]e’ve decided to request that all Facebook users fill out this information on their…
“The Long Run: As a Professor, Obama Enthralled Students and Puzzled Faculty,” is an interesting article by Jodi Kantor that will appear in tomorrow’s print edition of the New York Times. Kantor has some wonderful phrasings, like here when she is yoking together his political successes and the topics of his courses: Before he…
I’ve been telling students for years that 99% of the future of web design is redesign, which is why the major project in my web design course is redesigning a large-scale web site. Looks like two brothers had the same idea, with a twist: buying and reselling the domain name.