Posts from — March 2007

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Free pdf of Baudrillard’s Selected Writings….

G8-UNESCO World Forum on ‘Education, Research and Innovation: New Partnership for Sustainable Development’

G8-UNESCO World Forum on ‘Education, Research and Innovation: New Partnership for Sustainable Development’

Trieste, Italy, 10-12 May 2007

The Forum builds on the discussion launched at the
St. Petersburg summit on the interconnections between the three components of the triangle of knowledge—education, scientific research and technological innovation—from the perspective of sustainable development, and seeks to identify risks and opportunities for industrialized countries as well as developing and low-income countries.The discussion will be presented by speakers of the highest level from the educational, scientific and entrepreneurial worlds, drawn from G8 countries as well as developing countries. Attention to developing countries will augment the Italian initiative with respect to discussions within the G8 framework. The Forum is intended as an opportunity for discussion and no final document is foreseen.

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hmmph, missed the deadline for this.

Languages in Cyberspace:
Today various forces threaten linguistic diversity, particularly on the Internet. UNESCO seeks to promote wider and more equitable access to information networks by supporting the creation of linguistically and culturally diverse content in cyberspace and offering possibilities for the preservation of endangered languages.
Read more about UNESCO’s language s in cyberspace efforts.
Check out the workshop on recent experience measuring language in cyberspace.

Cubisto:
Cubisto
Make a modern art sandwich

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another cool toy for those of you in the framing mood from firebox.com

One thing that I managed to do recently was finally pay off my smallest student loan, that was a minor accomplishment, it was a perkins loan through virginia tech. I consolidated my other student loans through the ford program a few years ago to lower my student loan interest. The amount of pressure that student loans put on people is incredible. While my loan payments are not high, they are important and they do limit my options. For instance, I cannot take a low paying job and pay my student loans and pay rent. But my interest rate on loans is not high, but I could probably lower it if I tried. I think about my students, who are taking out student loans for library school and I wonder if they will be able to pay them back on that salary. It is unclear to me whether that will be possible. It also worries me that people are taking out more than 100k of loans to go to school these days. I think that signals a major problem for the economy in the future.

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Freebase… its a free online database. this could be handy for all kinds of data sharing.

Lauren Weinstein’s Blog: Newly Revealed FBI Data Abuses and the Data Retention Red Flag:

Broad abuses of retained data are now demonstrated to be real, not theoretical, as described in .this Washington Post story

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Lauren has a nice post outlining some of his insights and furthering his points about the problems of the governments abuse of information.

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They keep gameplay simple, but the play is brilliant.

If MSFT had designed vi:
A funny posting from Sun&#8217;s Marigan&#8217;s blog (thanks Don).

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