Posted By:  Rahaf Posted On:  Oct 10, 2008	Grown Up Digital - Released on Amazon!
I am so happy to announce that Don Tapscott’s latest book “ Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is changing your world” is available on Amazon! As a collaborator, I am very proud of the finished product, and ecstatic that this book is hitting the shelves. I was fed up...... [view]

Posted By:  Hossenfelder Posted On:  Oct 8, 2008	Book Review: Who Controls the Internet?
Who Controls the Internet? Illusions of a Borderless World By Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu ( amazon.com ) Goldsmith and Wu's book is a down-to-earth examination of the relation between users, the Internet and national governments. It is a well written story of the evolution of the...... [view]

Posted By:  melissasnowden Posted On:  Oct 5, 2008	Validation of Mental Experiences -- Marjane Satrapi
"'You are putting yourself in serious danger [by smoking]...' I think that I preferred to put myself in serious danger rather than confront my shame. My shame at not having become someone, the shame of not having made my parents proud after all the sacrifices they had made for me. The shame...... [view]

Posted By:  freechild Posted On:  Sep 23, 2008	Spreading the Word
One of the things that amazes me is the spreading awareness of my work. Despite my lackadaisical efforts at promoting myself, friends from across the U.S. and around the world continuously let me know they saw my writing, they heard my ideas or they ran into someone running a curriculum or...... [view]

Posted By:  Rahaf Posted On:  Sep 30, 2008	Well Played- Penguin UK’s “We Tell Stories”
As an avid reader, I’m always on the look out for that next great book to lose myself in. While many authors have embraced social media and have incorporated blogs and personal websites into their marketing strategy, I had often felt that there was a lot of untapped potential for...... [view]

Posted By:  freechild Posted On:  Oct 1, 2008	Not Adultism - Corporal Punishment
Spanking, slapping, smacking, pulling ears, pinching, shaking... Hitting with rulers, belts, wooden spoons, extension cords, slippers, hairbrushes, pins, sticks, whips, rubber hoses, flyswatters, wire hangers, stones, bats, canes, or paddles... Being forced to stand for a long period; hold...... [view]

Posted By:  h2cm Posted On:  Sep 30, 2008	Reflection: programming and caring II
Reflection : ( Ruby Pocket Reference, O'Reilly , 2007, p. 147.) The ability of a language such as Ruby to examine and manipulate itself. For example, the reflection method class from Object returns an object's class ("hello".class # => String). Reflection within...... [view]

Posted By:  Manfire Posted On:  Oct 22, 2007	Wait a second, Dumbledore is what?!
Okay, not that I have the least bit of my person against the sort; I even have a few friends of mine. But J. K. Rowling, famous author of the internationally (and personally) beloved Harry Potter book series, has come up with a slap in the face in her most recent interview. Dumbledore is......... [view]

Posted By:  h2cm Posted On:  Jul 19, 2008	New book - Conceptual Structures: Knowledge Visualization and Reasoning
Conceptual Structures: Knowledge Visualization and Reasoning 16th International Conference on Conceptual Structures ICCS 2008 Toulouse, France, July 7-11, 2008 Proceedings Eklund, Peter; Haemmerlé, Ollivier (Eds.) 2008, X, 311 p. With online files/update., Softcover ISBN:...... [view]

Posted By:  wmsiew Posted On:  Sep 5, 2008	This is for real...
How I Met Your Mother - Barney's Bro Code ... [view]

Zambia Knowledge Bank
Submitted By:   Sekani Website:  http://www.bridgewater.edu/zanoba/ Phone:  15408285351 E-mail:  mtembo@bridgewater.edu	Vision:   The purposes of the Organization shall be: 1. To document and validate Zambian culture and technology. In order to achieve this purpose, ZANOBA members will collect scientific data, information, and artifacts from......   [view]

Submitted By:   ldm Event Date:  Jan 16, 2008 & Time: 18:30 PM-21:00 PM Event Location:  Royal Ontario Museum [view]

Kama Reading Series