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Library 2.0 in 15 minutes a day – Library Instruction Wiki:

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This is a pretty good resource.

The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century :: Joey deVilla’s Personal Weblog :: Shutdown Day / A Modest Proposal:
You want a day I can get behind? No Poetry Day. Modern poetry is self-indulgent crap written by NEMS (non-essential members of society), and many of us go for months without poetry with no ill effects. We could take turns standing in front of a group of our peers and even say how long we’ve gone without poetry, AA-style. It would rock.

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Joey proposes No Poetry Day, in response to Shutdown day. I of course am appalled. Poesis, the act of creativity, the guiding operation of the consumer economy, it defines poetry, along with every other creative act… and then we are just machines.

UNESCO Survey on Infoethics Released:

“Ethical Implications of Emerging Technologies”
A UNESCO survey on INFOethics

Cover of the publication, copyright UNESCO

The survey was prepared by Mary Rundle and Chris Conely of the NGO Geneva Net Dialogue at UNESCO’s request.

In presenting the results, an introductory story is first provided of how the technologies covered relate to one another. Infoethics goals are then presented. Subsequently, for each technological trend surveyed, the report contains a short chapter drafted in lay terms to provide an overview of the relevant technology and to highlight ramifications and concerns. The infoethics analysis is then summarized and the story of the emerging technologies revisited. Finally, the report offers recommendations on ways to advance infoethics goals in anticipation of these oncoming technologies.

The ethical, legal and societal implications of ICTs are one of the three main priorities of UNESCO’s Information for All Programme and UNESCO was recently designated as the Facilitator for the implementation of Action Line C10 “Ethical Dimensions of the Information Society” of the Geneva Action Plan adopted by the World Summit on the Information Society.

Shutdown Day:
It is obvious that people would find life extremely difficult without computers, maybe even impossible. If they disappeared for just one day, would we be able to cope? Be a part of one of the biggest global experiments ever to take place on the internet. The idea behind the experiment is to find out how many people can go without a computer for one whole day, and what will happen if we all participate! Shutdown your computer on this day and find out! Can you survive for 24 hours without your computer?

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turn it off…. geeze i hope it doesn’t rain that day…

From Archivesblog and specifically it is at: http://anarchivist.blogspot.com/index.html

The First Shall Last:
Today ends a two decades’ long trip for me, and a three-year trip for Jim Andrews and four of his widely dispersed co-conspirators. After twenty-three years, some of the earliest computer poems, programmed by bpNichol back in 1983 and 1984 and published under the Underwhich imprint in 1984, are once again loosed on the world. The process wasn’t easy, but it was easier than we could reasonably have expected it to be. The project and its results address three issues that interest me most: visual poetry, archives, and language.

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Some of the first computer based poems of this person’s experience are now made available. This is great and they should be committed to archive.org, and likely other places. Computerized poetry has been a long standing tradition at this point in time of history… People are already forming nostalgias about it.