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astroturfing in action

Here is a clear case of astroturfing... I noticed the following ad on HuffingtonPost yesterday (01.28.08) promoting "draftbloomberg.com." Draftbloomberg.com (formerly Unity08.com) has been setup to encourage people to petition Michael Bloomberg to run for president as an Independent. The ad states 5,237 signatures... Meanwhile the web site only lists 3,719 signatures. ...

please forward to everyone you know. pt 2

part 1 of please forward to everyone you know was posted on 10.14.07. Obama responds to the smear campaign. From the chicago sun-times: Obama said the “swiftboating” started after he announced for president and Fox News “started saying, ‘“well this guy went to schools in madrassas.’” He revealed that his campaign ...

please forward to everyone you know

A recent story by the Politico describes a smear campaign which alleges Barack Hussein Obama is a Muslim. This campaign is remarkably similar to one waged against John McCain, yet the medium through which the smear is being propagated has changed - this time the smear is originating in spam ...

Do you use Internet Explorer?

This post has been imported from the NML Research Blog... Andre and I have been trying to add a new plug-in to the blog which would allow threaded discussion. Currently, comments can only be made to posts - but a threaded discussion feature would afford us the ability to comment on ...

Interactivity-as-process; Interactivity-as-product: a follow up to my earlier post

This post has been imported from the NML Research Blog... In my previous post I discussed my observations that actual interactivity is often just simulated interactivity - allowing the audience minimal participation while portraying it as participatory. I’d like to rephrase my question in light of the discussion that took place. ...

“Interactive” or Interactive?

This post has been imported from the NML Research Blog... After having the pleasure of speaking with a few of you I wanted to post something on interactivity in hopes of starting a discussion. As Joan mentioned in her last post, many of us are engaged in collaborative and participatory inter ...




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goodbye learning, hello workforce training

Some sad news regarding the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project: Microsoft has joined forces with the developers of the "$100 laptop" to make Windows available on the machines. According to Wired, Microsoft has had their sights on emerging markets in developing countries for a while now and have viewed low-cost children's ...
May 4th 2008
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we are the ones we’ve been waiting for…

From the conclusion of Chopra & Dexter's (2007, p173) Decoding Liberation: The Promise of Free and Open Source Software: Jacques Ellul imagined an iron cage constructed of technology (Ellul 1967), but never the possibility that the cage could be unlocked by its prisoners. We began with a historical note on hacking: ...

“what they want is an automatic feed”

Another sign of growing state interest in the semantic web… According to a recent article in the washington post, "the FBI has created a network of links between the nation's largest telephone and Internet firms and about 40 FBI offices and Quantico" as part of their Digital Collection System (also ...

(young) person of interest

What would it look like if we were to situate young people in the growing semantic web? A 2007 report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) took a look at some of the data mining programs currently underway at the Department of Homeland Security. In their report, GAO offer ...

information assimilation and the life of the child

From John Dewey's "The School and Society," pp100: It was forgotten that the maximum appeal, and the full meaning in the life of the child, could be secured only when the studies were presented, not as bare external studies, but from the standpoint of the relation they bear to the life ...