NASA Hosts Teleconference About Rover En Route To Mars Landing WASHINGTON -- NASA will host a media teleconference at noon EDT, June 11, to provide a status update on the Aug. 5, 2012, landing of the most advanced rover ever to be sent to Mars. Just something interesting about the far-reaching capabilities of technology and how we rely on and interact very closely with the technology we create.

The Torch Each year, FIRE'sCampus Freedom Network honors students who do outstanding work to promote liberty on their campuses. This year, we are pleased to honor Bryant Jackson-Green , Casey Given , Moriah Costa , and ten other students who earned spots in the CFN's Prometheus Society . This is a website to check out. There are many things to say about the site and the work that it does, but it is better to explore it for oneself. It demonstrates how technology and social media can be put to use to better and further one's education while defending individual rights and liberties. Technology is put to use to rally for various causes impacting education.

I have never played WoW, but I do enjoy the idea of playing a game while simultaneously adopting or constructing a new persona or identity as part of the game. WoW and other online MMOs have vast communities with diverse members interacting in various online social setting both within and outside the game realm. I have a particular interest in the way that social media and technology shapes and affects the construction or reconstruction of "our" identities, and how intertwined much of our lives are with the technology we use.