I just came across this site called ReadUps.com, which facilitates people reading together. It looks like you load an e-book, then invite people, and you end up reading at the same time with the ability to comment/discuss portions as you read. I’m not sure how I feel about this yet but I’d be curious to try it out. Seems like it’d have some good uses in an educational setting too. ReadUps ... continue reading

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I feel like if nefariousism was a word, it would describe activities undertaken to produce things such the TPP. Canadian Library Association | TPP Negotiations as Backdoor to Changing Canada’s Copyright Laws. ... continue reading

From Facebook’s emotional contagion experiment, this person calls out the influence that technical systems, which we use to communicate, has on our collective knowledge. This reminded me of a conversation my wife and I were having the other day. She was marvelling at how nice it was to see people from totally different worlds (in terms of our social spheres) discussion a topic of shared interest, which prio ... continue reading