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• The Increasing Value of Science, Technology, and Society Studies (STS)
• Pressing Global Standards for Internet Protocols
• Public and Private Goods: Social and Policy Implications
• Remote Sensing Technologies for Disaster Risk Reduction
• It’s the E-Commerce, Stupid
• Deregulating U.S. Data Communications
• “Survivable Communications,” Packet-Switching, and the Internet
• The Digital Spreadsheet: Interface to Space-Time, and Beyond?
• Zeihan’s Global Prognostics and Sustainable Development, Part II: Implications of Tesla’s Master Plan 3
• Technostructural Stages of Global ICT for Development (ICT4D)
• The Expanse: Cyberpunk in Space
• ICT4D and Digital Development in a Changing World
• The Techno-Epistemology of Databases, Part I
• Zeihan’s Global Prognostics and Sustainable Development, Part I
• Weak Domestic Dollar, Strong Global Dollar
• MMT in a Post-Covid-19 Environment
• Al Gore, Atari Democrats, and the “Invention” of the Internet
• U.S. Internet Policy, Part 6: Broadband Infrastructure and the Digital Divide
• Analyzing YouTube Channels
• Wireless Charging Infrastructure for EVs: Snack and Sell?
• The Great Monetary Surge of 2020 and the Return of Inflation
• US Technology Diplomacy
• Symbolic Economies in the Virtual Classroom: Dead Poets and the Lawnmower Man
• Building Dystopian Economies in Facebook’s Metaverse
• Hypertext, Ad Inventory, and the Use of Behavioral Data
• The North-South Politics of Global News Flows
• ARPA and the Formation of the Modern Computer Industry, Part 2: Memex, Personal Computing, and the NSF
• Engineering the Politics of TCP/IP and the Enabling Framework of the Internet
• ARPA and the Formation of the Modern Computer Industry, Part I: Transforming SAGE
• ICT and Sustainable Development: Some Origins
• Diamonds are a World’s Best Friend? Carbon Capture and Cryptocurrency Blockchains
• Modern Monetary “Practice” and the Fear of Inflation in a Low-Supply Economy
• Thomas Edison Builds the Universal Ticker-Tape Machine
• Show-Biz: The Televisual Re-mediation of the Modern Global Economy
• US Internet Policy, Part 5: Trump, Title I, and the End of Net Neutrality
• Digital Spreadsheets as Remediated Technologies
• Internet Policy, Part 4: Obama and the Return of Net Neutrality, Temporarily
• Will Offshore Wind Power Print Money?
• COVID-19 and US Economic Policy Responses
• Five Generations of Wireless Technology
• US Internet Policy, Part 3: The FCC and Consolidation of Broadband
• Korea in a Post Covid-19 World, Part 3: The Green New Deal
• Korea in a Post Covid-19 World, Part 2: Merging Digital and Green New Deals
• The Two Santa Claus Theory of Economic Growth and the Prospects of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT)
• Korea in a Post-Covid-19 World, Part 1: The Korean New Deal
• Starlink and the Return of Satellite Internet Service
• The International Politics of Domain Name Governance, Part Two: ICANN and the Clinton-Gore Administration
• Russia, the Fall of the USSR, and the Era of Pan-Capitalism
• The International Politics of Domain Name Governance, Part One: The Czar
• Digital Disruption in the Film Industry – Gains and Losses – Part 2: Non-Linear Editing
• Oliver Stone’s Platoon: Jesus Christ Superstar vs. the Marlboro Man
• Memes, Propaganda, and Virality
• Digital Disruption in the Film Industry – Gains and Losses – Part 1: The Camera
• Letteracy and Logos
• US INTERNET POLICY, PART 2: THE SHIFT TO BROADBAND
• US Internet Policy, Part 1: The Rise of ISPs
• Five Stages of ICT for Global Development
• Digital Spreadsheets – Part 5 – Numeracy and the Power of Zero
• “It’s the Infrastructure, Stupid”
• FROM NEW DEAL TO GREEN NEW DEAL, Part 2: The Failure of the National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933
• YouTube Meaning-Creating (and Money-Making) Practices
• FROM NEW DEAL TO GREEN NEW DEAL, Part 1: Roosevelt Saves Capitalism
• Factors Supporting Early Computerization and Data Communications
• Four Futures: One Humanity
• The CDA’s Section 230: How Facebook and other ISPs became Exempt from Third Party Content Liabilities
• The Spreadsheet that Fueled the Telecom Boom – and Bust
• HOW THE US MOBILE INDUSTRY CAME TOGETHER, PART III: JUNK BONDS CONSOLIDATE THE NETWORK
• Early Internationalization of the Internet
• The World is Bubbly: Capital, Cities, and Creative People
• How the US Mobile Industry Came Together, Part II: The Grand Alliance
• How the US Mobile Industry Came Together, Part I: Transformation of the Network
• Metrics, Analytics, and Visualization
• Lasswell and Hall – Power and Meaning in Media
• Spreadsheets and the Rhetoric of Ratios
• From Gold to G-20: Flexible Currency Rates and Global Power
• Apple’s GUI and the Creation of the Microsoft’s Excel Spreadsheet Application
• Potential Bill on Net Neutrality and Deep Pocket Inspection
• TIME Magazine’s “Machine of the Year”
• Digital Spreadsheets – Techno-Epistemological Power over People and Resources
• The Cyberpunk Genre as Social and Technological Analysis
• Java Continues to be the Most Popular Programming Language
• Anchoring Television News
• GLOBAL INNOVATION INDEX
• THE EXPERIMENT, Part I: NEW ZEALAND AS THE WORLD MODEL FOR DIGITAL MONETARISM
• Characteristics of Economic Goods and their Social Implications
• Ensuring Successful Democratic Political Economies
• Times Square’s Luminescent News Tickers and Public Spaces
• Auctioning Radio Spectrum for Mobile Services and Public Safety
• The Landsat Legacy
• Russian Interference, Viral Sharing, and Friends Lying to Friends on Social Media in the 2016 Elections
• Assessing Digital Payment Systems
• Digital Content Flow and Life Cycle: The Value Chain
• Not Like 1984: GUI and the Apple Mac
• A First Pre-VisiCalc Attempt at Electronic Spreadsheets
• CISCO SYSTEMS: FROM CAMPUS TO THE WORLD’S MOST VALUABLE COMPANY, PART THREE: PUSHING TCP/IP
• Lotus 1-2-3 – A Star is Born
• That Remote Look: History of Sensing Satellites
• How “STAR WARS” and the Japanese Artificial Intelligence (AI) Threat Led to the Internet, Part IV: Al Gore and the Internet
• Space Shuttles, Satellites, and Competition in Launch Vehicles
• GOES-16 Satellite and its Orbital Gaze
• How Schindler Used the List
• Digital Spreadsheets – The Time-Space Power of Accounting, Part 1
• Broadband Policy and the Fall of the US Internet Service Providers
• “Run to Goshen Regardless of Opposing Train”
• CISCO SYSTEMS: FROM CAMPUS TO THE WORLD’S MOST VALUABLE COMPANY, PART TWO: Starting Up the Tech
• Vacation
• Xbox One – Extending Virtual Reality and Multi-Player Games
• CONTENDING “INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAYS”
• Digital Games and Meaningful Play
• Xanadu to World Wide Web
• Cisco Systems: From Campus to the World’s Most Valuable Company, Part One: Stanford University
• The NSFNET is the Internet
• We shape our buildings and afterwards our buildings shape us
• Digital Spreadsheets – Part 5 – Ease and Epistemology
• Black Friday and Thomas Edison’s Stock Ticker
• Subsidizing Silicon: NASA and the Computer
• The MAD Origins of the Computer Age
• Emerging Areas of Digital Media Expertise, Part 4: Business Acumen
• Emerging Areas of Digital Media Expertise, Part 3: Global Knowledge and Geopolitical Risk
• Digital Content Flow and Life Cycle: Global E-Commerce
• When Finance Went Digital
• Origins of Currency Futures and other Digital Derivatives
• Statecraft and the First E-Commerce Administration
• America’s Financial Futures History
• Computer Technology and Problem-Based Learning (PBL)
• YouTube: Alice’s Rabbithole or Hypertext to Hell?
• Those Media Products are Misbehaving Economic Goods
• TPP and the Role of Intellectual Property in the US Export Economy
• Microsoft and the IBM PC Case Study: The Deal of the Century
• Mind Mapping in Higher Education
• Markets: Pros and Cons
• The Telecom Crash of 2002
• Hootsuite and the Social Media Curriculum
• Fed Watcher’s Handbook is on Amazon
• Emerging Areas of Digital Media Expertise, Part 2, Data Analytics and Visualization
• The FCC Helps Business Go “Online”
• SAGE, SABRE and the Airline Industry
• Copyright Protection and Fair Use for Creative Industries and Education
• YouTube’s Tenth Year Anniversary
• Emerging Areas of Digital Media Expertise, Part 1
• Lotus Spreadsheets – Part 4 – Symbols and Lists as Administrative Technologies
• Railroads and Western Union Connect a Continent
• Gold, Greenbacks and Invention of Electric Indicators for Financial News
• Telegraphic Communications and the Emergence of Wall Street
• Thirty-Five Activities Media Degrees Should Anticipate in Digital Work Environments
• Expressive Values and the Creative Products of the Korean Wave
• Steven Levy’s “A Spreadsheet Way of Knowledge”
• Lotus Spreadsheets – Part 3 – Identifying the Components of a Transformative Tool
• IBM’s Watson AI Targets Healthcare
• Lotus Spreadsheets – The Killer App of the Reagan Revolution – Part 2 – Spreadsheet Capitalism Emerges
• The Transformation of Telecom to Global IP, GATT to GATS
• The Transformation of Telecom to Global IP – GII to WTO
• Robin Williams, Dead Poets, and Symbolic Investments in the Virtual Classroom
• Lotus Spreadsheets – The Killer App of the Reagan Revolution – Part 1
• Management and the Abstraction of Workplace Knowledge into Big Data
• Discerning Media Economics
• Reviewing Castells’ Global Automaton
• New York City’s Emphasis on Global Media Management
• Drone Journalism and Remote Sensing
• Technologies of Democracy
• Revisiting Huxley and Orwell on Technology and Democracy
• Google You Can Fly My Car
• The Surveilling Eye of Global Financial News
• E-Commerce with Chinese Characteristics
• Determining Competitive Advantages for Digital Firms, Part 2
• Determining Competitive Advantages for Digital Media Firms, Part 1
• Origins of the “Information Economy”
• How the Web Secures Your Data
• Bitcoins and the Properties of Money
• Digital Media Archetypes
• The Fedwire Network and Open Market Operations of the Federal Reserve
• Why Digital Media Firms Need to be Fed Watchers
• Licensing Creative Properties – Merchandise and Characters
• JFK’s Contribution to Global Communications
• Controversies in Intellectual Property – The Business Method Patent
• Max Headroom’s Futuristic News Gathering
• What is Entertainment?
• How to Use Facebook with an Online Course
• The Network is the Computer – UNIX and the SUN (Stanford University Network) Workstation
• Google Fiber in Austin
• Three Levels of Digital Media Metrics
• New Developments in GPS and Geo-Location for Mobile Technology
• Banner Years – The Resurgence of Online Display Ads
• Working Big Data – Hadoop and the Transformation of Data Processing
• Apollo 13: The Write Stuff
• Virality and the Diffusion of Music Videos
• E-Commerce’s Billion Dollar Mondays Still Mark Holiday Shopping Season
• The Qualtrics Conundrum
• Lincoln and the Telegraphic Civil War
• Markets Fail
• Google, You Can Drive My Car
• Barry Obama and the Hawaii’s Multi-Ethnic Economic Transformation
• Diffusion and the Five Characteristics of Innovation Adoption
• TOP SOCIAL MEDIA AND FORUM SITES IN THE US
• WSJ in the Ether about Inventing the Internet
• Arthur C. Clarke’s Three Laws of Innovation
• The Meaning Makers: Omnicom Group
• Four Generations of Wireless Tech
• Geopolitical Risk and the Information Standard
• Music’s Year of the Cloud
• Healthcare IT and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
• The New Frontier of “Big Data”
• Visiting the Future of the Panama Canal
• Popular Programming Languages
• The Price of Neglect
• The Walt Disney of Japan
• Electric Money Never Sleeps
• Online Media Business Models: The Intercontinental Interview
• Smith Effect III: Adam Smith, the Census Machine, and the Beginnings of IBM
• All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace – The Poem
• All Watched Over by Heroes of Loving Grace
• Setting Up Your IT/Media Enterprise as an LLC
• G-8 Declares Support for Internet’s Role in Democratic Movements
• LinkedIn Social Media IPO Raises Questions of a Global Internet Bubble
• Producing Digital Content Synergies
• Browser Wars: Chrome on the Offensive
• Measuring the Popularity of Programming Languages
• Mysteries of Facebook Optimization: EdgeRank
• Florida’s Creative Class Thesis and the Global Economy
• Global E-Commerce Report Focuses on Logistics
• United Nations Looks to Transform with Integrated ICT and ERP
• Top Social Media and Forum Sites in the US
• Viral Marketing and Network Effects
• Developing Apps for Apple’s Mobile Devices
• Social Media: Some Thoughts on Curriculum
• Google’s Competitive Advantages – Fixed Costs
• The University of Hawaii and the History of Non-Linear Editing
• Social Media Entering Phoenix Stage?
• The FCC’s First Computer Inquiry
• Why AT&T Invented and Shared the Transistor that Started the Digital Revolution
• Seeing from Space: Cold War Origins to Google Earth
• My Top Social Media Books
• Media Content as a “Public Good”
• Obama “Hustling” E-Commerce Exports
• Social Network Seminar – Translating Virtual Engagement into Political Reality
• Multimedia and Multiple Intelligences
• Wanted: Top Skills in Information System Management
• From Sputnik Moment to the Reagan Revolution
• China bids Baidu to Google
• Comcast and General Electric Complete NBC Universal Deal
• Communications and Media Policy in the 112th Congress
• Shutting Down a Nation’s Internet: The Case of Egypt
• The Dual Product Media Model
• Transatlantic Telegraphy
• Telegraphy: The Time-Space Governmentality, Part II
• Telegraphy: The Time-Space Governmentality
• The Web in 1909: E.M. Forster’s “The Machine Stops”
• Elements of Web Design
• Haiti Recovery Highlights Role of Mobile Technology and Electronic Money in Disaster Relief
• Common Carrier Law and Net Neutrality