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Michael Wesch and his 200 students in ANTH 200: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University, Spring 2007 collaborated in exploring what exactly a student does these days.  Their results make a fascinating video and a timely reminder of the way (some) student experiences are changing: [YouTube:dGCJ46vyR9o] Some of the ...

Yesterday, Karen called me a geek.  She's right; but I suspect a fair few postgrad bloggers are in the geekerly way, too, but: can you prove it? Here's evidence of my uber-geekery... If you've got the same tool, can you out-geek me? :)

Australia's QUT has been in the grip of a very public controversy recently which dovetails between issues of freedom of speech, academic ethics and the transparency of university processes.  The controversy came to light and media attention on 11 April this year when two QUT academics, John Hookham and Gary MacLennan, published an article in ...

Another interesting video about Net Neutrality: [Click the image to open a new window with the video embedded.] This one's a little more fun, but still does a good job explaining why Net Neutrality matters (in just over 3 minutes, this time!) [Via Sivacracy] 

If you're interested in Net Neutrality, then check out this evocative mini-documentary on why regulating the internet in the ways being debate in the US are a bad idea of democracy, a bad idea for the US, and a really bad idea for the rest of us! Save the Internet | Rock the Vote If you're not interested in Net Neutrality, perhaps ...