Links: democracy, learning, technology, women, censorship, writing, watching
* ACMA's list of banned websites has supposedly been leaked: Owner of Wikileaks.de's house is raided. Senator Conroy denies it is the real list. On a related note, the NZ has abandoned their proposed '3 strikes' law, which would have led to users being kicked of their ISPs if they received three complaints - not necessarily verified - of copyright infringement.
* A great post from Lisa Nakamura on digital piecework over on Difference Engines.
* I missed Ada Lovelace Day, celebrating women in science and technology. More here, including a collection of blog posts celebrating the day. On a related note, I am quite intrigued by this talk: "Everything I needed to know about the Web I learned from feminism", and am going to hunt around for more on it.
* Making Invisible Learning Visible: "
a five-year
collaborative effort to study the impact of technology on learning,
began as an
effort to make visible the hidden intermediate processes students
undergo on
the path to learning."
* Google's 'Moderator' tool "gives participants a way to submit questions and vote for the ones they want answered." We've been discussing democracy - direct and representative - this week in my tutorials, so the implications of this are interesting to consider.
* Over in the UK, Indymedia worries that new legislation may make hosting Indymedia servers illegal.
* A PhD student writes to the Smart Set asking how to use poetry in their writing. I've been thinking similar thoughts myself - in my case, I've been enjoying the more direct and personal letter form that is used a lot in This Bridge Called My Back: Radical Writing by Women of Color, and wondering if I could incorporate that form between and around my more formal writing.
* Screen Sifar blogs about pad.ma, "a non-commercial archival website where you can download, watch, learn
about, use and add to documentary video footage from various sources,
for free!" - yet another exciting project coming out of India.
* Blogging continues over at the Bluestocking Blog, recent blogs cover: images of the recession, Perth praxis, building bridges, ironic responses to the economic crisis and the lack of empathy in intractable conflicts.