superaleja needs a laptop to do second life:
SuperAleja’s a Force for Good!
April 9th, 2007

Yes, SuperAleja is a “Force for Good”

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I have to say…. this is worthwhile. so go do it.

Civil Rights Resource Guide (Virtual Programs & Services, Library of Congress):
Civil Rights Resource Guide

Civil rights march on Washington, D.C.

The digital collections of the Library of Congress contain a wide variety of material related to civil rights, including photographs, documents, and sound recordings. This guide compiles links to civil-rights resources throughout the Library of Congress Web site. In addition, it provides links to external Web sites focusing on civil rights and a bibliography containing selections for both general and younger readers

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a handy resource

PublicationsList.org – your academic publications list online with endnote, reference manager, bibtex and pubmed import and export – improve impact factor and citations:
PublicationsList.org exists to let researchers maintain a reliable web-based record of their academic output without any fuss.

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interesting tool…

Usability News – CHI 2007 – Can User Centred Design be Harmful?:
CHI 2007 – Can User Centred Design be Harmful?

Source: UN, 6 May 2007
Submitted by Andy Dearden

Researchers and practitioners meeting at CHI 2007 produced the surprising argument that user-centred design is a bad idea! Instead, a range of alternative approaches were proposed for projects in developing countries such as “community centred design” and “deployment centred design”.

“A critical observation was that in these settings, the idea of a single user owning and interacting with a single device, around some individually oriented task, is often inappropriate. Instead, systems are more often shared and used by communities, and their objectives are also geared to development and growth of the community.”

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the answer is yes. The second paragraph, I argue, is universal, not just for developing countries. It recognizes a part of human nature and human experience that is fundamentally collective.