In this week's discussion Mary Beth brought up interesting point about Hole in the Wall studies and one laptop per child. This article criticized the program for not designing from the bottom up.

Public Policy Institute study shows the gap for broadband access in the home is higher in Latino communities in California; 50 percent do not have access to Internet at home.

This venn diagram still makes me laugh. As we were reading Weinberger this week and the limits of first order organization it reminded me how the most basic information you are trying to find can be so hard to locate.

This was the website Christine Borgman mentions in the lecture that can be searched for publisher's copyright conditions for authors archiving their work online.

Very recent Q&A with Sherry Turkle on "Alone Together" about our plugged in lives making people more lonely and distant. Interesting passage about teenage culture midway through

Here's what our tag cloud looks like so far... I'll keep updating every few days.

Updated tag roll http://eden.rutgers.edu/~ctavlin/SI_TagRoll.html

Here's a link to the article that JSB referred regarding blogging as a means to create context rather than just content. Sullivan is a terrific writer; I think what he outlines here is blogging at its best. I'm not sure it universally applies because so many blogs I encounter just take up words in space.

Always fun to watch even if you've seen it before. The first time I saw this was at a SLA event on social media last fall - even though it wasn't that long ago, it's surprising to me that in that time social media has pervaded our lives even more. The speaker at that event was making the case for social media, whereas now, I'd think the expectation from SLA participants would be, how can we make the most of social media.

Has anyone read this book? I started it a few days ago. Noticed that reviews, like the one I linked to, were skeptical. Basically, Carr, who is a journalist, not a scientist, cites studies on brain plasticity and research that the brain changes in response to actions to conclude that the way we read and synthesize information online has changed the way we think (for the worse). I like how the NYT review puts new technology in a historical perspective.