Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Jun 25, 2009, 11:38 AM

I love Jack Dorsey's wry interview with The Onion, "I Never Intended for Twitter to be Useful." Isn't that what every educator, every newspaper commentator, every pundit has said about Twitter? It's useless, stupid, narcissistic, exactly right for this "dumbest generation" of narcisstic YouTube obsessed anti-intellectual, anti-social, anti-political dweebs. So then, how come it is being used by freedom-fighters worldwide? How is that possible? Read Jack Dorsey's not-even-a-gleam-in-the-eye interview here: http://tiny.cc/E06pJ

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Jan 05, 2009, 07:40 AM
In the distant time before 2006, when I was still Vice Provost for Surprising and Interesting Ideas (aka Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies), before my (glorious) leave, before my return to teaching (in two days), I used to consult often on how one manages diverse, unusual, distributed, organizations. I organized some management seminars on new-style forms of management and communication and took some. It was during that time that I learned about the importance of navigators. In HASTAC, and as part of the MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Initiative, I've seen again and again how important navigators are in a distributed environment.

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Sep 12, 2008, 11:54 AM
We are getting out the word about www.dmlcompetition.net and learning the lesson we've all learned before all over again: it's all about the relationships . . .

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Jul 10, 2008, 05:59 AM
 

Here's a notice about an interesting project you might want to participate in. I copied this off the group page on Facebook. You can join there

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on May 02, 2007, 11:32 AM
This reblog of a NY Times piece on the demise of formal bookreviewing media also emphasizes the importance of blogs for book reviews. I've already reviewed my three favorite books on sound on this site. I invite others to use this site to review their favorite books. At "Electronic Techtonics," we hosted a book exhibit outside the demo hall . . . and all our HASTAC techy types bought tons of books, a great success. Guess what! We love technology and we read.