Archive for January 4th, 2007

4
Jan

Northern Voice

   Posted by: Jeffrey   in Technology

I just registered for Northern Voice, the two-day, non-profit personal blogging conference that's being held at the UBC main campus in Vancouver on February 23-24, 2007. Glad Nancy at Full Circle Online Interaction Blog recommended it recently.

 

I remember reading about last year's conference and wished I could attend, so this year will not miss it!

4
Jan

The Science of Evil

   Posted by: Jeffrey   in Power & Positionality

Did anybody see this and have the eerie feeling people can be worse than we want to believe? I recall reading about Stanley Milgram’s controversial Yale experiments and both a sick feeling in my stomach as well as a feeling that perhaps entire groups of people who have done horrible crimes against humanity, while claiming they were "just following order," are really no different from most people.

Last night’s recreation was worth seeing and causing me to be disturbed again. ‘Primetime’ Re-Creates a Famous Experiment to Understand How Ordinary People Can Perform Unthinkable Acts.