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Jeffrey Pomerantz
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Nov 7, 2022

The Great Delicious Exodus of 2010

Everything old is new again. This is an essay about communities migrating between online services. I wrote it as a scholarly paper but never managed to get it published in a journal. …

Online Community

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The Great Delicious Exodus of 2010
The Great Delicious Exodus of 2010
Online Community

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Apr 2, 2019

Fear and Loathing in Virtual Reality

The filmmaker Chris Milk gave a now-famous TED Talk titled How virtual reality can create the ultimate empathy machine. In this talk, he argues that “film is this incredible medium that allows us to feel empathy for people that are very different than us and worlds completely foreign from our…

Virtual Reality

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Fear and Loathing in Virtual Reality
Fear and Loathing in Virtual Reality
Virtual Reality

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May 10, 2015

Thanks to the NSA, the legal definition of metadata may change

Last week the NSA’s bulk collection of American’s phone metadata was ruled illegal. In this latest development in the case ACLU v. Clapper, the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the National Security Agency’s program of bulk data collection about U.S. citizens’ telephone calls was unauthorized under Section…

Nsa

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Nsa

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Jeffrey Pomerantz

Jeffrey Pomerantz

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Information scientist & professor. Founder of Proximal, maker of educational VR. Author of the MIT Press books Metadata & coming soon Standards.

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