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Information Superhighway to Nowhere
As we mentioned on the HASTAC blogs last week, you can now download or purchase a copy of the report entitled The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age, co-authored by Cathy Davidson and David Theo Goldberg, with assistance from Zoe Marie Jones, our former colleague extraordinaire. Click to read the details from MIT Press ...
As I have previously announced on this blog, we at HASTAC are big fans of Twitter and have used it productively since October to reach out to new audiences, keep our finger on the pulse of the social networking world, and even make a few friends. If you haven't found us on Twitter yet, we are @dmlComp and you can follow us here. We began that account to help publicize the second year of the Digital Media and Learning Competition, which we administer for the John D. and Catherine T.
HASTAC III “Traversing Digital Boundaries.”
As a sort of followup to my blog post on internet access in rural areas, I have some thoughts on improving access for urban residents, spurred by this event, aimed at adivising the White House on how to best use the approximately $7 billion for broadband access included in the economic stimulus bill the President is about to sign:
Our hosts for this session are Cameron Neylon and Deepak Singh, who have themselves explored the many social networks developed especially for scientists and bring to us the question: Why aren't these more successful? Some examples are Nature Network, MyExperiment. Others? Please add others that you know of, and your thoughts on them.
Our leaders in this session are PalMD and Abel Pharmboy. I hope that these comments on this topic will be useful, as I have never blogged anonymously or under a pseudonym, but we are blessed with many such folks at this conference, and I will focus on the experiences they share in this session.
Our hosts, Danielle Lee and acmegirl, began the session by asking how we can make science more representative of our population as a whole. Audience members pointed out that an exercise of drawing scientists among schoolchildren is not necessarily indicative of who they are because scientists do not rely on their appearance for their work.
It's that time of the year again: you can vote for your favorite blogs in a number of categories for the 2008 Bloggies (officially known as the 2008 Weblog Awards). Much like last year, some of the most popular group blogs and most familiar individual faces are back.
