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An ABC story reports that blogging can help you feel less isolated, more connected to a community and more satisfied with your friendships, both online and face-to-face, new Australian research has found (I added the bit about sex and research).

danah boyd recently published a blog essay about an ongoing ethnographic study ''Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace.'' – it was followed up in the media (BBC, MSNBC) and generated torrents of responses, including, death threats. One of the interesting things in the response danah eventually made were the reflections of ...

They have been switched on and I have added the CAPTCHA images to a number of the Blog themes - I will be doing the rest of the themes shortly. For enabling anonymous comments - I have written some instructions in the help forum

Ditto conditions.  1. I travelled as a child - particularly memorable moments: standing on a sand dune in the sahara, riding a horse to see the pyramids at saqqara,skiing in Tehran and avoiding nuns in a playground in Melbourne. 2. My early ambition to be a flying doctor transmogriphying into finding a cure for ...

I just realised to forgot to forward the meme. Anyone on myResearchSpace not already tagged, consider yourself it!

Rules:1. We have to post these rules before we give you the facts.2. Players start with eight random facts/habits about themselves.3. People who are tagged write their own blog post about their eight things and include these rules.4. At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names. Don’t forget to ...

I blogged a while ago about things I was waiting to hear back on: the news is that my crazy week of application writing paid off! This week I've begun a six-month position as Graduate Education Officer here at UWA and I've also recieved a Whitfield Fellowship - a six-month, 0.5 role - that will begin after the GEO job finishes. In terms of the ...

I've been flicking through Lois McMaster Bujold's Ethan of Athos, one of the books I'm planning to discuss in the current chapter, which has led me to ask: if this day is about what research students do, then does that question depend on the definition of research? If research, for English researchers at least, is reading/watching and thinking and ...

Did you know that you could write your blog post in Microsoft Word? Well, Word 2007 has a feature that allows you to write your blog post and publish it directly from Word. Why would you want to do that you may ask? Well, you get all of the formatting features, spell checking, grammar checking, etc of Word when you write, plus, (once we I have ...