World of beginnings. Mike Taht has a fascinating essay inadequately titled The inner workings of the Internet mind. He launches the piece with a revisitation of Phillip Emeagwali's ideas, which expand on what Lewis Frye Richardson was imagining in 1922. Sez Mike: [The Doc Searls Weblog] The hyperball theory is fairly interesting, it will be […]

Jan Velterop, Public funding, public knowledge, pu …. Jan Velterop, Public funding, public knowledge, publication, Serials, 16, 2 (July 2003) pp. 169-174. (Accessible only to subscribers.) Abstract: “The argument that publicly funded research should be publicly available is a valid one, but it cannot be the most important one in the discussion as to whether […]

TECH TALK: Transforming Rural India 2: Education. Education plays a paramount role in the process of economic development. Besides being instrumental in development, it is also an end in itself because it helps people lead better lives. For broad-based sustainable economic development, primary education is critical. Neglect of primary education is endemic in developing nations. […]

Free Media. As a part of the Texas Center for Educational Technology's Web Library, Free Media is a storehouse of stock photos provided under a Creative Commons license primarily for educational purposes. They currently have over 400 high-quality images in a variety of categories, waiting for your reuse. [Creative Commons: weblog] I'm always looking for […]

Interesting Tidbits. Here's some stuff of interest I've run across recently: The defective yeti talks about The Armchair Economist and Steven Landsburg's Slate Columns On K5 there's a discussion around an article titled Six degrees of separation or unification? that talks about Friendster, networks of people, and so on. Dan Gilmor on VoIP services and […]

The future is in the hands of those who can operate a press. The Death of the Webmaster: Why Weblogs Bring a True Revolution to Internet Publishing [via Thomas Burg]: The future is in the hands of those who not only own a press, but that can also operate it. Later: the post above was the one […]

“Stronger Together:” Why the Tenurable and the Nontenurable Should Make Common Cause. We are witnessing the transformation of our academic work and our universities. Historically, university administrators have used contract positions to fulfill specific, short-term needs. But in the past decade, administrators have increasingly chosen to use casual labour for ongoing staffing… [Invisible Adjunct] I […]

Post-cyborg event in Toronto, August 14 and 15 [bOing bOing] this looks like fun

Has 'haven' for questionable sites sunk?. An effort to convert a platform in the English Channel into a “safe haven” for controversial Web ventures has failed due to political and other problems, one of the company's founders says. [CNET News.com] [A blog doesn't need a clever name] well it was a somewhat tenable idea i […]

amongst other things: Valery is known for saying: At times I think and at times i am…. which is clearly an indictment of I think therefor I am based on phenomenal experience of flow in thought. when thinking, the I is always fleeting. and Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in […]