Listserves Old and New
http://lists.tmttlt.com/listinfo.cgi/transdisciplinarystudies-tmttlt.com  This is the list for the book series ‘transdisciplinary studies’ which is seeking scholars interested in discussing transdisciplinary research and book proposals for transdisciplinary research —– http://lists.tmttlt.com/listinfo.cgi/softwareandculture-tmttlt.com  This is a list that began at the Center for Digital Discourse and Culture.  It is dedicated to discussing the relationships between software and culture. http://lists.tmttlt.com/listinfo.cgi/political-economy-internet-tmttlt.com  This […]
Read Moreremembering preliminary exams
To some extent this exam was very important, and I think the questions that I was asked are indicative of why I think this is. Â It is 12 years after I took this exam, and well being able to answer these questions today are just as important as them. Â I only have the questions that […]
Read Morescos presentation proposal
I proposed this for the annual standing conference on organizational symbolism conference http://www.scos.org/iframe-5/index.html “serious fun”… and it was accepted. it is a spin off the darknets research i’ve been pursuing on the side for a year… so now there are two papers in development on this topic… I’m sharing it so people can see more […]
Read MoreThe Problems with One Laptop Per Child
In The World’s Fair : The Problems with One Laptop Per Child Ben Cohen (a colleague of mine from school) presents what his students, all engineers in training, find to be problematic about OLPC. He follows uphere. While my problems with OLPC are parallel to his students, I think there are much more interesting secondary […]
Read MoreFellowship and Conference
Since Tuesday I have been in Milwaukee visiting SOIS and CIPR as part of my Information Ethics fellowship. I attended a discussion about a possible future conference on translating intercultural information ethics across the situated understandings that term implies across a plurality of contexts. That seems like a great project, I’m happy to help out […]
Read MoreReport: The future of scholarly communication: building the infastructure for cyberscholarship
Report: The future of scholarly communication: building the infastructure for cyberscholarship: The future of scholarly communication: building the infastructure for cyberscholarship link —- From craigbellamy.net
Read MoreCultural Ethnography: A Brief Report
Cultural Ethnography: A Brief Report: A user in the usability lab is like a tiger in the cage, helpless! Study him in his natural habitat! — this is a short report from an hci practitioner who has moved into the realm of ethnography. i think it captures one of the main failures of much of […]
Read MoreTalking Points Memo | Annals of Reporting
Talking Points Memo | Annals of Reporting: Actually, if you look at what he says, it seems Skube’s editor at the Times oped page didn’t think he had enough specific examples in his article decrying our culture of free-wheeling assertion bereft of factual backing. Or perhaps any examples. So the editor came up with a […]
Read MoreWSIS Golden Book Publication
WSIS Golden Book Publication: More than 375 submissions were made to the Golden Book by governments, international organizations, NGOs, companies and individuals, describing their work towards promoting ICT activities. ITU estimates that the activities announced during the Tunis Phase to promote WSIS goals represented a total value of at least € 3.2 billion (US$ 3.9 […]
Read MoreBBC NEWS | Technology | '$100 laptop' sparks war of words
BBC NEWS | Technology | ‘$100 laptop’ sparks war of words: Chip-maker Intel “should be ashamed of itself” for efforts to undermine the $100 laptop initiative, according to its founder Nicholas Negroponte. He accused Intel of selling its own cut-price laptop – the Classmate – below cost to drive him out of markets. —- hmmm, […]
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