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never did get the new xml rpc worked out for here, so i'be been slow posting things.   

where did remote access posting to to in the blog system? i've tried just about every variation to find the xmlrpc that i can, but i can't find it.  it is still drupal isn't it? 

Today I cleaned out twitter of around 90% of the people that I was following but weren't following me. It struck me that I had been exchanging twitter chat with most of these people, trying to do some good, help in my own way, but they weren't doing that in return. That seems a bit odd. Granted perhaps it is because i use my nickname (buridan) instead of my full name, and i don't provide much information about myself on twitter. Perhaps I made them wary, but still, doesn't take much to recognize me since my blog address is there.

In any case, twitter is an interesting beast and it can absorb too much time, so I have a feeling that just following people who follow me will be better for everyone involved Feel free to follow me, I'll likely follow you.

CFP: Learning Infrastructures in the Social Sciences and Humanities

CALL FOR PAPERS

special issue of Learning, Media and Technology

issue theme: Learning in Virtual Worlds

Edited by Jeremy Hunsinger and Aleks Krotoski

Virtual worlds are learning worlds.

There is substantial evidence that people learn in virtual worlds. While most learning in these spaces is informal, existing outside the school curriculum, formalised learning environments have also been developed in textual worlds, MOOs, MUSHes, MUDs and multi-media spaces like ActiveWorlds(R), Second Life(R), World of Warcraft (R) to support educational goals in primary, secondary, higher and lifelong learning contexts.

You can't fully understand how hemoglobin molecules interact until you've seen them depicted through a classical pas de deux.

[From Dance Your Way to a Ph.D. - The Daily Beast ]

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pretty funny:) dance your ph.d.

http://websurvey.sfu.ca/survey/28872637

Please do this for my colleague Richard

I've been working on our annual report. Here are some interesting stats:

The CDDC has been referenced in over 250 books, over 500 scholarly publications total. We've appeared in numerous textbooks, academic papers, etc. Last year we had over 2 million unique addresses visiting our servers and we transferred over 4terabytes of information. We have around 65000 links to our site, many are duplicates, but around we do have links from at least one university on every continent that has a university, and usually we have many links from many universities. We have links from corporations, and many links in the international non-profit sphere. Our materials have been used by millions of people and in hundreds courses and likely will continue to be used for some time.

The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education

[From The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education -- Publications -- Center for Social Media at American University]

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This looks like a good starter resource for those interested in how to use Fair Use in the United States' copyright regime.