Popular/Notable Posts

Welcome to my personal blog. My background is summarized here. I can be contacted using the email address on this page. I have several MIT sites including a blog and a paper about a CS educational curriculum based on WoW. Popular/notable posts from my various blogs are listed below.

Entrepreneurship

• On failure
• Kam Man in Quincy: A new model for old strip malls?
• The Narragansett story
• Online business models: 1998 revisited

Taiwan

• Feiwu/廢物樂隊 interview: From Taiwan Beer to Cuckoo For Coco
• Quick Taipei 
• Our review of Chinese summer camp in Taiwan 
  Taiwan: 1993-2009

My MIT experience:

• MIT Sloan Fellows: One semester down, two to go
• MIT Sloan Fellows program: Soft vs Hard
• My MIT center of gravity shifts to digital media ...
• An encounter with Tim Berners-Lee and the Semantic Web
• Linked Data revisited: What I learned, what we created, and what's next
• The challenges of creating a mobile educational app based on Linked Data
• A curriculum for learning computer programming in WoW
• A curriculum in computer programming, reviewed
• Social TV poster #1: PeoplePixPlaces
• The missing constituency in climate change negotiations
• In case you're wondering what at MIT Sloan accounting exam looks like ...
• M.I.T.
• MIT D-Lab demo: "cycle ventures"
• A robot opera?
• My Sharp scientific calculator
• Infinite Corridor Walkthrough
• Goodbye, Vietnam

I've been writing about the business of media and online advertising for years. Here is a list of posts on this topic from various blogs:

• "Quality vs. junk journalism"? Or news vs. other information/distractions?
• Why not rename AOL?
• The Tiger Woods accident simulated in 3D shows the future of newscasts
• Boston Globe relaunches forums, but they're doing it all wrong
• Why newspapers in Japan are still going strong
• Online news: It's not just the homepage that matters
• Ray Kurzweil on virtual reality, augmented reality, and Second Life
• The results of my content analysis of BusinessWeek's Second Life coverage
• Killer media app: Automatic image tagging

I've also blogged about other topics that interest me, ranging from Chinese media controls to online education. A list of popular posts in these topic areas is shown below:

Vietnam:

• Vũng Tàu: Reflections on Vietnam's past 
• Vietnamese calligraphy may look like Chinese, but ...

Online education:

• GI Bill benefits exploited by for-profit and online colleges
• Online education: A teacher speaks
• Follow-up: My online education experience
• More distance education commentary from Harry Lewis, ClueHQ, and yours truly
• Harvard's Open Learning Initiative, and more online education criticism
• SNL's "University of Westfield" ad: The reputation of online degrees takes another hit
• MBA math review

Other education:

• Our review of Chinese summer camp in Taiwan
• ACICS accreditation and for-profit education: What's at stake
• MIT Sloan EMBA: It's official
• MIT Executive MBA gets a name change

Virtual worlds and gaming:

• An academic gets a rise from "breaching experiments" in City of Heroes/City of Villains
• Problems and Promise in Second Life
• Microsoft's virtual worlds strategy: It's the 'Spatial Web', not Second Life
• Ray Kurzweil on virtual reality, augmented reality, and Second Life
• The open-ended first-person shooter: A template for 21st-century storytelling?

Miscellaneous Media, Software, and Technology:

• Ancestry.com review
• Why new data visualizations fail to catch on

Miscellaneous:

• Odd jobs: Working on the conveyor line at the Newtonville Star Market
• What if Rome had never fallen?
• Sell textbooks on Amazon: How it works
• North Country: St. Lawrence County
• Camping on Lovell's Island, Boston Harbor