Digital Empowerment Conference?. Here's an e-mail I just sent to my co-workers…does this sound like a good idea to anyone? These are totally… [Full Bleed: Confessions of a Zine Girl] this is the sort of thing that can make a difference.

The ICSU has launched a discussion forum on Scienc …. The ICSU has launched a discussion forum on Science and Technology in the Information Society. Discussion is welcome on these four topics: Scientific data and information for decision-making and better governance Ensuring universal access to scientific knowledge internationally Scientific data and information as a global […]

Ancient Greece was pro-choice. There's a book available in the UK which examines Abortion in the Ancient World by University of Floriday classics professor Konstantinos Kapparis. There's a UFL review here. [megnut] interesting enough, not that many people in the u.s. care what the greeks did or did not do…

Indian software exports boom. Foreign demand for India's software and support services shoots up by 28% in the nine months to December. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition] yes, this is something to watch on a global scale

Forget Moblogging – Try Cyborglogging!. Cyborg Logs and Collective Stream of (De)Consciousness Capture for Producing Attribution-free Informatic Content Such as Cyborglogs by Steve Mann This is nifty….

Are doctorates worthwhile?. asks Brian Martin in his review of Canadian literary scholar Wilfred Cude's The Ph.D. Trap Revisited. The PhD is the accepted apprenticeship into research and has become a prerequisite for academic jobs in most fields. But is it a good idea? The negative view is that studying for doctorates wastes vast amounts […]

Blog startup advice for newbies. Dave Pollard of How to Save the World offers some advice for blog beginners ported from the world of entrepreneurship. I'll summarize the points here, but you'll have to rack up a hit on his blog to get the full picture: Give the market what it wants. Be patient. Don't […]

academic/disciplinary power struggles. Last year, RIT established a new “College of Computing and Information Sciences,” taking three departments that had previously been part… [mamamusings] having lived through one previous reorganization, and now living through another one, I find reading what others say on the organization of universities, and the politics involved quite interesting, but there […]

Konfabulator: An open-source programming tool for nonprogrammers lets Mac OS X users create useful ' Widgets'. DIY software… [www.gulker.com this is cool, and handy.

Sharp's mini-laptop. The Gadgeteer review of the Linux-based Sharp C700 PDA, which with its 640×480 screen that swivels around to reveal a tiny keyboard, looks a little like a mini-laptop. It'd be nice to see a Pocket PC like this, especially since the C700 is only sold in Japan, only available in the US through […]