Frances Bell’s Blog

 Nicholas Carr identifies Baudrillard as a prophet of ‘twitterification’.  He says “Those that know the technology cannot see beyond it, and those that don’t know the technology cannot see into it. Both end up trafficking in absurdity. ” and goes on to quote Baudrillard’s eerily prophetic words from 1999 (collected in the book The Vital [...]

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Hot on the heels of the ALT-J Special Issue on Immersive Virtual Worlds is the EXTEND two week discussion at CABWEB on Multi-User Virtual Environments in Teaching and Learning.  We have excellent resources and input from the project more …..
Do join us.

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We have all experienced link rot  (even if we don’t call it that). 

Webcite is an antidote, explained here in Wikipedia. Initiated by an author or citer, a web page is archived publicly so that the link can be preserved for any article that cites it.
I haven’t used it yet, and would be interested to know how others [...]

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http://www.knowandnetwork.org/francesbell/weblog/81.html
Southern California - where else?
How about submitting a paper to this?
The Southern California Linux Expo is proud to announce their Second
Women in Open Source Conference. The conference will be held on February
8th, 2008 at the Westin Hotel near Los Angeles International Airport.
Widespread acceptance and participation by the user community has
established SCALE as a premiere Open [...]

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On Tuesday afternoon, I attended the short paper session on Learning and Internationalism. Alannah Fitzgerald presented the first paper, Social computing and the microcredit activities, brought to our attention by Professor Yunus, 2006 Nobel prize winner. Learners are exposed to examples provided by the Overcoming Poverty network, tagged and aggregated via [...]

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