Category Archives: information ethics

Discussion about ethical issues associated with information management and use.

Following in the Footsteps

Posted on September 3, 2013 by Doc

On my second pilgrimage in Spain – this time from Tui to Santiago de Compostela along the Camino Portugues – I became aware of the importance of this prayerful walk as one in which I was not alone, even though … Continue reading →

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Untethered on the Camino

Posted on October 21, 2012 by Doc

As someone who has been tethered to computers via the Net for many years doing my online teaching and consulting work, I have come to realize the need to create a balance between the connected self and disconnected self. To … Continue reading →

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Moving from “opt-out” to “opt-in” culture

Posted on February 15, 2012 by Doc

“We’re here for consumers. Why, without them, we’d have nobody whose privacy we can invade so that we can exploit them to advertisers.” Comment about Google under user comments on: http://www.winrumors.com/google-claims-microsoft-and-apple-are-partners-in-a-patent-war-against-android/ Teaching courses on digital marketing and ethics in information … Continue reading →

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Collaborative reasoning with a social strategy

Posted on June 21, 2011 by Doc

In my previous posts on the value of mental and physical models, I suggested that it is the dialog that we create between these two types of reasoning that helps us tackle the discovery of what is novel and complex: … Continue reading →

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information and ethics: a conundrum?

Posted on September 9, 2006 by Doc

As the first entry in this discussion about ethical issues associated with information management and use, I invite your answers to the question posed in the title of this post. Webster’s dictionary defines conundrum as “1 : a riddle whose … Continue reading →

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