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This a brief look at combining some linguistic approaches to the content of wikipedia and asking questions about the shaping of the meaning of words.

Mozilla is jumping into the ring with a mobile OS platform. Still in development, but this is the main page for info about the new platform

Cool spatial/pictorial layout.

CISPA could be used to go after WikiLeaks and other sites.

This group is briefly mentioned in the chapter on Pranks in this week's reading. The fired game designer for the SIms helicopter game left and joined this group-- pretty much pranksters of an online nature. While it has little to do with video games, it has everything to do with ethos in an Internet age.

Augmented reality means that " . . . our reality is both technological and organic, both digital and physical, all at once." This short post was referenced in both "The Myth of Cyberspace" and "Picture Pluperfect," so I thought I'd bookmark it here in case anyone was interested.

Small company starts shipping out "Raspberry Pi" a $25 computer that runs a compact version of Linux. Did I mention it's the size of a credit card?

Hush, empathy in Rwanda.

An interesting take on how digital spaces actually create new networks.

My last day teaching was Friday and already they're trying to make it so I can't come back :( Though, I've seen computer poetry and I'm not sold on the idea that computers can gauge quality...

The website of Humanity+ which advocates ethical uses of technology to further humanity.

Consider Mcluhan's concept that electronic media creates a construct of the human nervous system. Here you'll see it in its literal form as the mapped out Internet.

Find it especially fascinating due to the protocols that Berners-Lee specifies in order to send him an e-mail.

Self explanatory title tracing the history of online spaces through its inception in a mass scale political context.

"Adopted by the NCTE Executive Committee, February 15, 2008 Literacy has always been a collection of cultural and communicative practices shared among members of particular groups. As society and technology change, so does literacy. Because technology has increased the intensity and complexity of literate environments, the twenty-first century demands that a literate person possess a wide range of abilities and competencies, many literacies."

From about page: "We make it easy and attractive for the web generation to give back through our Fellowship, which connects technologists with cities to work together to innovate; our Accelerator, which will support disruptive civic startups; and our Brigade, which helps local, community groups reuse civic software."

NPR discusses how the use of social media has brought the Treyvon Martin case into national spotlight.

This is an article that discusses the views of professional historians regarding wikipedia. I think it makes a number of interesting claims both regarding the management or historical data and wikipedia's role in promoting a particular historical paradigm.

Reminiscent of Goldsmith's idea of appropriation.  (Also, if I remember right, he mentions Satie during the book's opening chapters.)