Are video devices in the home a new privacy threat?
With the release of Amazon Echo Show 2, and the Facebook Portal, live video cameras are poised to become a bigger part of daily life in our own homes. Do these video technologies create a…
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Technology and Inequality eBook now released
The electronic version of my new book Technology and Inequality: Concentrated Wealth in a Digital World, published by Palgrave Macmillan, is now available. The hardback should be available in late July 2017 on Amazon and…
SIGED AMCIS Workshop – August 11 in San Diego
Materials for the SIGED Workshop on Content Management Systems and Web Analytics in Information Systems Education are below. Enjoy! SIGED Workshop Slides One Page Design ‘Canvas’ Digital Entrepreneurship High Level Topics Digital Entrepreneurship Extended Outline…
USF’s Online Business Class Wins the AIS Innovation in Teaching Award
USF’s Online Business education received some big-time recognition recently, in the form of the Association for Information Systems (AIS) Innovation in Teaching Award. The plaque is made out to your humble author, but the achievement…
The Relaunch: Updating the Blog for 2015
Not a single update to the JP Allen Blog in a whole year. Slightly embarrassing, but also a good excuse for a much needed update and redesign. I needed to refresh the site I’m running…
The Future of Social Informatics
Out now! The new book on Social Informatics that should become a key statement on where the field is headed in the future. Though the book contains thoughts on the past, present, and future, you’ll…
My first month with the ZTE Open and Firefox OS
Now that the “totally democratic” ZTE Open is about to be released in the U.S. ($80 unlocked at the ZTE eBay Store), I can reveal how truly cutting edge I am. I bought a ZTE…
Information Systems graduates now have the highest unemployment rate—Finally the evidence we need to change course?
The Hard Times 2013 employment report from Georgetown University has the usual laments about how tough it is for recent college graduates to find a job. Political Science majors have high initial unemployment rates from…
Democratizing SMB Networking: Why I’m excited about Pertino
Here’s some exciting news: I’ve joined the advisory board of high-flying cloud networking startup Pertino (a company worthy of ‘betting your career on’ according to one source). Why am I so excited about working with…
Democratizing Business Software: WordPress and Small Business
The WordPress ecosystem, now powering over 17% of the web, has been successful beyond even my wildest expectations when I started working with it over 5 years ago. As one of the best-known examples of…