Joining Second Life: Second Life is also not immune to the same social predjudices and inequities that exist in the real world. My friend Andy Carvin found this out when he created an African avatar – modeled specifically after a Somali child soldier. In an excellent article about Second Life, the Boston Phoenix quoted Andy […]

National Security Experiment – BREAK.com : 7/3/2006 – An Australian TV performs a simple and hilarious experiment on bridge security. How long can an average looking white tourist take pictures of security cameras before being bothered? —— nothing new here….

Media @ LSE Group Weblog » Blog Archive » A university lecturer’s life in ’40s Britain?: He has a leisurely breakfast at half-past-eight, followed by pipe and paper; reaches the University between ten and half-past; reads his letters and perhaps writes one; saunters into the Common Room for a cup of coffee; calls on a […]

Wiki Textbook Proposal: To bing down the cost of expensive text books, and make them more universally accessible, a new project is proposing creating “wikitexts“, collaborative text books. ——– isn’t this just wikibooks and wikiversity….

Pictures that lie: news.com.com has a good photo-spread on “pictures that lie” and another one on the ways in which digital cameras are making it easier to subtly lie with without having to edit the image. A must see for anyone who believes their own eyes. I’ll stand up right now and say that many […]

here is the current version of the syllabus that I’ll talk about today… http://www.learninglibrarians.net/cl/digitalarchives/index.php?title=Syllabus2006 This is the first time that I’m teaching this course, so feedback on this or or my other course on Library 2.0 and Social Software is appreciated.

Rational sex ethics – Google Book Search: Rational sex ethicsBy Walter Franklin Robie ======= this is one of google’s recently released full books… unsurprisingly, i found it while looking for early sociology texts….

‘Digital Natives’ May Be Fleeing Lecture Halls [14]: “Something is happening this semester that has never happened to me before,” writes Kristin Luker, a professor of sociology at the University of California at Berkeley, on a forum for professors. ”[M]ore than half of my lecture class is just not showing up.” Judging by the responses […]

today was my first day… I actually got a fair amount done today academically, just didn’t get much done where it needed to be done. as usual… in any case, i also signed up for my health insurance, and all my other bennies. I think I’m going to change the blog a bit. I am […]