A partir del 1 de julio de este año, los productos ecológicos a la venta en la Unión Europea deberán acreditar su autenticidad portando un logo que acaba de presentarse, resultado de un concurso para su elección. El ganador es un estudiante alem&... read more

HUMlab is hosting a screening of 10 tactics for turning information into action by the Tactical Technology Collective. After the screening, a course examining how social media has been used by activists both in planned and spontaneous contexts wil... read more

As one of the teachers involved with Michelle Obama and the White House vegetable garden, I’ve been impressed with the sudden surge of public interest in the simple act of children planting seeds. At Bancroft Elementary School, where I work first... read more

On Friday, February 5th it began to snow.  The first few hours the snow wasn't sticking; it was heavy, wet and melted almost immediately when it touched any surface.  But by early evening it began to stick.  We were at a friends house for dinner ... read more

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Teaching, learning and research have always been social activities involving heavy reliance on trust, reputation and brand awareness., and these social aspects of information seeking behavior grow more prevalent every year. This natural tendency t... read more

Cover of Wit and Its Relation to the UnconsciousHere’s something I pulled off the Internet that may be useful in writing about The Office. It’s a summary by a USC English professor of some of theories about why people laugh and what laughter means... read more

I’ll be presenting my short paper on “Three Strategies for Open Source Deployment:  Substitution, Innovation, and Knowledge Reuse” at the Open Source Systems 2010 conference this May. I wrote the paper because I see a number of organizations (incl... read more

When Conde Naste ceased publication of Gourmet in late 2009, many readers had to resort to other magazines to satisfy their culinary fix. A recent article highlighted some alternative titles to fill the void Gourmet left behind. The Magazines ... read more

I had a recent inquiry about the list below, which was a part of The Artist's Survival Kit. So I... read more

Two recent announcements from the National Library Board, Singapore:1) Launch of an online archive of Singapore's newspapers, called newspapers.nl.sg.Singapore, 28 January 2010– From today, library patrons can search, browse and retrieve full-text... read more

I've had several people ask me about Macs and podcasting. Since we don't have Macs on campus, I am a little out of touch on the subject but I do have an older Powerbook at home and even my 5+ yr. old Mac makes podcasting very easy. I use Garage Ba... read more

Did you know that the number of international students at about 3,000 U.S. colleges and universities rose 8% last year to a new high of 671,616. Big increases in students from China helped fuel the rise. As in other recent years, India once again ... read more

Just before the semester began, I sent out a proposal to a single high-profile university press for my ongoing book project. I had been in conversation for a little over a year with the Sr. Acquisitions editor, who haad made her name in the field ... read more

Beautiful baby girl.Nice. read more

For the past few months I’ve neglected to reblog in this space the availability of fresh new Digital Campus podcasts for your listening pleasure. Below is a list of the major topics of each of those episodes—if you’re new to the podcast, pick one... read more

Email interview with Geert Lovink, by Rasa Smite (February 2, 2010) Q1. What was your motivation to found Nettime mailinglist back in 1995? The background story can be found in the nettime chapter of my book Dark Fiber. I don’t have much to add to... read more

I have been so busy.  My massage practice has been fully booked and is basically fully booked out until I go on a short vacation in February.  On my vacation, I go to the California Bluegrass Association Camp, which I like to affectionately refer ... read more

Check out my links for the new batch of bloggers in the "Don't Believe the Hype": Reading and Writing about Popular Culture learning community... Spring '10 version. Most of the links seem to work. Should be several more added soon.LCers, go ahead... read more