Software Studies @ UCSD
Software Studies @ UCSD: —- they have a postdoc…
Read MoreTop Ten Issues of One Laptop Per Child
Top Ten Issues of One Laptop Per Child: 1. The Community of Learning vs. The Cult of the North American Individual: The name OLPC is a problem as the focus is on Personal Computers for Individuals ignoring the fact that community feedback is crucial part of learning. Self directed learning cannot be effective without feedback […]
Read MoreBlogger Perceptions on Digital Preservation
Blogger Perceptions on Digital Preservation: Blogger Perceptions on Digital Preservation is an online survey from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Information and Library Science. The study team is interested in hearing from all bloggers on their perceptions on digital preservation in relation to their own blogging activities, as well as […]
Read MoreCan culture dictate the way we see? – being-human – 04 May 2007 – Print – New Scientist
Can culture dictate the way we see? – being-human – 04 May 2007 – Print – New Scientist: Culture can shape your view of the world, the saying goes. And it might be more than just a saying: a new study suggests that culture may shape the way our brains process visual information. — yes… […]
Read MoreThe Best and Worst Internet Laws
Articles: The Best and Worst Internet Laws Date: Apr 20, 2007 By Eric Goldman. Over the past dozen years, the lure of regulating the Internet has proven irresistible to legislators. For example, in the 109th Congress, almost 1,100 introduced bills referenced the word Internet, and hundreds of Internet laws have been passed by Congress and […]
Read Morefrom Doc: The Living Edge
The Living Edge: David Sifry has just put up The State of the Live Web, April 2007. To explain the Live Web, he points to a pair of pieces I wrote in 2005. If you’d like a more visual explanation, follow the slides from this talk I gave at OSCON last summer, starting here. —– […]
Read MoreU Michigan Unveils Master's Degree in 'Social Computing'
U Michigan Unveils Master’s Degree in ‘Social Computing’: The University of Michigan’s School of Information (SI) announced a graduate-degree specialization in “social computing” through a Master of Science in Information. The university said the program is the first in the country to focus on social computing, the term describing the wave of open technologies that […]
Read MoreLinux.com | Linux to help the Library of Congress save American history
Linux.com | Linux to help the Library of Congress save American history: The Library of Congress, where thousands of rare public domain documents relating to America’s history are stored and slowly decaying, is about to begin an ambitious project to digitize these fragile documents using Linux-based systems and publish the results online in multiple formats. […]
Read MoreMain Page – Pentabarf
Main Page – Pentabarf: Welcome to the Pentabarf Wiki. This wiki is used for documenting and supporting Pentabarf, the open source conference planning software. —— Pentabarf is a conference management system. it looks pretty nifty… it is a rails program.
Read MoreInternational Journal of Internet Research Ethics
Announcing the release of the International Journal of Internet Research Ethics Call for Papers for the Premier Issue of IJIRE Description and Scope: The IJIRE is the first peer-reviewed online journal, dedicated specifically to cross-disciplinary, cross-cultural research on Internet Research Ethics. All disciplinary perspectives, from those in the arts and humanities, to the social, behavioral, […]
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