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Asha Achuthan has an interesting series of posts over at the CIS website, a work in progress that she writes will:lay down the historical and geo-political contexts for the use of technology in Indiaengage with existing concepts like context, postcoloniality, organicity, and exclusion that have come into use with the critical responses to ...

A recent article in Environmental Science and Technology identifies scientific facilities as high energy users. Mills, Evan. 2009. Sustainable scientists.Environ. Sci. Technol., 43:979-985. University sustainability, as rightly pointed out by Sky elsewhere in myResearchSpace (''A Sustainable Campus''), commonly focuses on 'green' or ecological ...

One of the conceptual issues that I explore in the first chapter of my thesis is the relationship between 'online' and 'offline' spaces. While a lot of valuable work has been done on the connections and overlaps between these spaces, I think there's still a tendency to assume that cyberspace is a different place, disconnected from 'reality'. ...

Subtitle: Dear UWA, please stop using proprietary software. Alternate subtitle: Why my decision not to use Endnote now gives me a smug sense of satisfaction. Liz has been extolling the virtues of Zotero for a while now. It's a free Firefox plugin that helps you collect, manage, and cite your sources. It sounds handy, and it's free and open ...

Non-state actors (NSAs) are increasingly coming under consideration within the field ofinternational relations, and transnational social movements, particularly the global justicemovement (GJM), are seen as having a role in pushing for progressive change. The emergence ofthe GJM has relied in large part on the growth and accessibility of various ...

Last night I went to the first of three sessions on Biological Art that SymbioticA is running through UWA Extension. I've been writing a lot about science and technology (or, rather, 'technoscience', to use a rather muddy concept developed by Latour and Haraway), and I can't help but see resonances between the issues I'm discussing and the ...

Yesterday I could have had a very bad day. Things felt busier than usual, I felt less than well-prepared for a class, and to top it all off I forgot my USB thumb drive on which I had some material prepared the previous evening for a class. [USB drives seem essential small items these days, along with mobile 'phones. I have a gonzo theory ...

There are millions of children around the world that don't have access to the basic necessities of life - enough food, clean water, healthcare, education, security. So it seems a little crazy that the One Laptop Per Child Foundation is trying to not only give all children a laptop, but to start with some of the most disadvantaged children in ...

I've been sick for the last week, and my head has been too full of cotton wool for any very productive time to be spent in front of my computer. I'm perfectly capable of sucking in information, like some kind of academic sea sponge, but when it comes to digesting it and turning it into...whatever useful thing seasponges, for the sake of this ...

I've started learning to use a dvorak layout keyboard, and I ended up ranting about it a bit. There's apparently a fairly interesting and persuasive zine about it around the place somewhere, but I wanted to say a bit about why I decided to learn. There's a bit about the QWERTY vs Dvorak debate on wikipedia, if you'd like an introduction. There's ...