To Felipe, who gave me this metaphor This coming Saturday, July 26, Raúl Castro will speak in Santiago de Cuba.   Broadcasting live on TV, he will address a people who still remember last year’s speech in which he mentioned “structural cha... read more

An aquaintance of mine is thick in her journey through secondary education and she is learning about all the things we want to know--green living, alternative sources of energy--and has started a blog. I quote:I promise to bring you the latest in ... read more

AVATARA (2003) by 536 (Donato Mancini, Jeremy Turner, with Patrick “Flick” Harrison) It was with much happiness that I discovered this morning that Avatara is now streamed online. Avatara is a full length documentary on a community that is based i... read more

Names omitted to protect the innocent; otherwise copied verbatim: Dear Dr. Jonathan Sterne: Thank you so much for agreeing to participate in reviewing the tenure and promotion documents of——-. As you know, excellence in research activity is one o... read more

I posted earlier about the Hyperlinked Society collection, made up of a bunch of essays on the role of hyperlinks, um, in society. Just found out via a tweat from one of its co-editors that it’s available in a searchable, linkable form here. Pret... read more

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The mayor of San Francisco went to jail recently to retrieve passwords from a techie gone bad. Turns out the techie with the goods was friendly and accomodating, but this is one situation we'd all rather avoid. read more read more

The September Project is a very groovy grassroots movement that got started when I was getting my master's at UW in 2004. I helped work on publicizing it at the time and am happy to see how it's grown. If you're into libraries as spaces for open d... read more

Coffee, baguette, updates. Trying to get the morning started. # Realizing that the google-alertedness of my newest post ([link] prolly ought to extend here. Delete! # read more

El discurso xenófobo que culpa a la inmigración de los problemas de la crisis llega a la calle. Es uno de los primeros frutos de ese españolismo de izquierdas cuidadosamente preparado desde los nuevos medios de papel durante los últimos dos años. read more

I forgot to mention one point when I was blathering about lists earlier this week: The easiest way to get on them is by asserting, truthfully or not, that you don't want to be on them. Behold, my incredible mancrushworthiness, from an entire list... read more

Is Facebook’s redesign aimed at Silicon Valley, not everywhere else? » VentureBeat Nice article about how FB is retooling to aim to “serious” users rather than those who like decorating their profile and playing Scrabulous. (tags: facebook design ... read more

i've never felt a need to share an IM exchange, but this one was too rich. and i've never burst into tears at work from laughing so hard:(note the "***" for the expletive)Ryan says:david's hair is a continual source of amazement and joy for me.Rya... read more

warning: this blog post contains homework. read at your own risk.the september project is a grassroots effort to encourage events about freedom and democracy in all libraries in all countries during the month of september.we began the september pr... read more

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I’ve been in the Bay Area on workcation for the past week. While I haven’t been posting at all, I have been active on twitter. read more

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Some ten and a half years ago, David Marshall - then lecturing in the English Department at the University of Queensland - had an idea. Academics around Australia, and around the world, were still coming to terms with this new-fangled thing, the ... read more

Reaching youth with a healthy lifestyle message is vital. A healthy lifestyle incorporates proper eating, physical activity AND gardening. Educating youth about a healthy lifestyle is especially critical today: nearly one in three U.S. youth are o... read more