Saturday, February 26, 2005

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WSJ Article: "A Back-Seat Driver For Your Teen's Car" The Wall Street Journal has an article about different technologies used to monitor the driving habits of teenagers. I've long been convinced that such things would be common by the time my kids are driving (less than 6 years away, now). Surprising to me, there is no mention of accelrometers (to measure how much force is generated going around a curve). The article also points out a subtle benefit--peer-pressure inoculation. Teen Passenger: "Let's see if we can beat them to the mall". Driver: "Can't, the car has spyware installed". 10:51:47 PM    comment []

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My Kind of Guy WSJ: At a Drexel University campus forum last May, professors complained about funding cuts at the library. Rather than apologize for the belt-tightening, President Constantine Papadakis told them he'd prefer to have an all-digital library with no books at all. 10:45:28 PM    comment []

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Trick of the Trade Sometimes when I am searching for something that is only available behind a paid content wall (e.g., Wall Street Journal articles that I glimpse in other people's copies of the dead tree WSJ, that are lying in the doorway to our building), I will try a newsgroup search. Not infrequently, someone will have posted the text of the article. 10:37:01 PM    comment []