Brian Kerr

…the contents of which are left as exercises for the reader:

• And his trails do not fade
• Because when you gotta sleep, you gotta sleep
• party-like-it's-2008
• That was the year that was
• There is hardly a fence
• They will listen to what the smokestacks are saying to the people
• We are seekers for a new word

It’s quiet. Celebrations in Animal Crossing ramp up in about 30 minutes, local time. Outside, there’s no snow, just yet. That was the year that was.

(tags: 2007 ☄ break-through)

Paraphrased for a new century and an old industry:

“To seek the timeless way we first must know the quality without a number. There is a central quality which is the rooted criterion of life and the spirit of man, a town, a building, or a wilderness. This quality is objective and precise, but it cannot be numbered.”

re: QWAN from: TWoB by: CA.

(tags: analytics collective cybernetics media more-human-than-human networks representation)

Snippet from a course announcement for a winter 2007 class to be taught by Don Blumenthal at the U-M School of Information:

This course will examine: 1) privacy issues related to the safeguarding of sensitive information against inadvertent disclosure; 2) policy and societal questions concerning the value of security and privacy regulations, the real world effects of data breaches on individuals and businesses, and the balancing of interests among individuals, government, and enterprises; 3) current and proposed laws and regulations that govern data security and privacy; 4) self-help and private sector regulatory efforts; 5) emerging technologies that may affect security and privacy concerns; and 6) issues related to the development of enterprise data security processes and programs that take into account the requirements of all relevant constituencies: e.g., technical, business, and legal.

Here’s the course catalog page for Data Security and Privacy: Legal, Policy and Enterprise Issues. I met Don at a2b3 lunch some time ago. This looks like a great topic and a relevant offering, since — when I was on an outbound trajectory from the department, at least — so much of the dork curriculum actually resulted in half-baked SQL-injectable junk and so forth.

(tags: course networks privacy process security umich umsi)