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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 ...

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: ...

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 ...

congressional oversight

via secrecy news: The Government Accountability Office maintains an office at the National Security Agency but it remains unused since no one in Congress has asked GAO to perform any oversight of the Agency, the head of GAO disclosed last week. Despite multi-billion dollar acquisition failures at NSA and the Agency’s controversial, ...

a word from the reverend billy…

"The corporations want us to have experiences only through their products." -- Statement of Belief

Mitchell (1999) - Society, Economy, and the State Effect

"The line between state and society is not the perimeter of an intrinsic entity that can be thought of as a freestanding object or actor. It is a line drawn internally, within the network of institutional mechanisms through which a certain social and political order is maintained." :: sent wirelessly via ...

Geosniff (v.)

"To search the web by location, delivering regionally pertinent information to users and regionally pertinent users to advertisers." - Jonathon Keats, Wired 15.09 :: sent wirelessly via blackberry

Sandy Stone (1991) - Will The Real Body Please Stand Up?

"I believe that technology and culture constitute each other, studying the actors and actants that make up our lively, troubling and productive technologies tells me about the actors and actants that make up our culture." :: sent wirelessly via blackberry

young people: victims, criminals… red herring

While reading Walter Lippmann's "A Preface to Politics" my attention was mainly drawn to his discussion of the red herring. The red herring -- a metaphor used to describe the obfuscation of, or distraction from, a particular object(ive) -- is portrayed by Lippmann (1913, p261) as both "pest" and "benefit," ...

Friedrich Engels - Dialectics of Nature

"It is precisely the alteration of nature by men, not nature as such, which is the most essential and immediate basis of human thought." :: sent wirelessly via blackberry




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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 ...