September 2005 - Air-L - lists.aoir.org

Chicago IR 6.0 information
by Steve Jones 26 Sep '05

26 Sep '05

Thanks to David Brake there is a wiki page at http://wiki.aoir.org/index.php?title=Chicago with local information for conference-goers. Additionally, if you are coming to the conference, please know that there are still a few tickets available for the banquet and for the L tour. I particularly want to highlight the latter, as it is a unique chance to see Chicago's historical sites from the vantage point of a privately rented Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) train (commonly known as the L). The tour will be led by Chicago transit expert Michael Shiffer, CTA vice president and University of Illinois at Chicago associate professor. After boarding the four car train reserved for us, the tour will highlight the importance of mass transit in Chicago and significant Chicago neighborhoods along the several train lines including the oldest line, the brown line. The CTA operates the nation's second largest public transportation system and covers the City of Chicago and 40 surrounding suburbs. On an average weekday, nearly 1.5 million rides are taken on the CTA. Breakfast will be included in the approximately tour departing from downtown Chicago. Riders must meet just outside the Rush Street doors by the lobby of the Marriott Hotel by 8:25 a.m. on Saturday, October 8 to walk to the train boarding location. The tour will last about 3 - 4 hours. As for the banquet, in addition to a terrific menu (featuring a tenderloin carving station, pasta buffet - including vegetarian sauces - soup and salad bar, and coffee station with desserts) this year’s conference banquet will feature the Eric Hochberg Quartet, an ensemble consisting of some of Chicago’s best known and most respected jazz musicians. Eric Hochberg has been a mainstay of the Chicago music scene for more than twenty years, having lent his bass to a variety of projects, performing and/or recording with the likes of Pharoah Sanders, Bobby McFerrin, Pat Metheny, Cassandra Wilson, Von Freeman, Chico Freeman, Ken Nordine, Cannonball Adderly, David Bromberg, and many others. Mark Colby, tenor sax,, has performed with Gerry Mulligan, Jaco Pastorius, Frank Sinatra, Maynard Ferguson, Bob James, Charlie Haden and Mose Allison. He has been a jazz faculty member at DePaul University since 1983. Phil Gratton is ahighly sought after drummer with over 30 years experience, and has played all over the world with Dorothy Donnegan and Marian McPartland. Pianist Dennis Luxion has played with Steve Allen, Chet Baker, Von Freeman, Curtis Fuller, Sheila Jordan, Lee Konitz, Archie Shepp, Woody Shaw, and Toots Thielemans, among others. If you have already registered for the conference but want to add either or both of these options you can go to https://www.conted.vt.edu/ssl/aoir/index.lasso, fill out the personal information and check the boxes only for these options. I'm looking forward to getting the conference under way and to seeing as many of you as are able to make it! Best wishes, Sj

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Chicago-related tips?
by David Brake 26 Sep '05

26 Sep '05

I didn't see anywhere on the AoIR wiki for people familiar with Chicago to share their local knowledge with the rest of us headed to the conference, so I added http://wiki.aoir.org/index.php?title=Chicago So far the page is pretty thin (since I know very little about Chicago!) but favourite websites restaurants, things to do, etc would be welcome I am sure. Please feel free to add to it... --- David Brake, Doctoral Student in Media and Communications, London School of Economics & Political Science <http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/media@lse/study/ mPhilPhDMediaAndCommunications.htm> Also see http://davidbrake.org/ (home page), http://blog.org/ (personal weblog) and http://get.to/lseblog (academic groupblog) Author of Dealing With E-Mail - <http://davidbrake.org/ dealingwithemail/> callto://DavidBrake (Skype.com's Instant Messenger and net phone)

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CFH
by Radhika Gajjala 26 Sep '05

26 Sep '05

Cell/Mobile phone use in rural areas? ______________________________ Hi, I've been searching for available published work on cell/mobile use (or lack - or implications of use or lack of use etc) in rural areas in order to use in the context of my recent ethnographies from parts of rural and urban Andhra Pradesh (India). I found some that refer to Grameen Bank experiments, to rural Uganda usage etc. But not much on rural US or rural areas of any other "developed" nations of the world. I did find material on urban use of cellphones Maybe I am looking in the wrong places. Can anyone suggest where I should look. -- Radhika Gajjala Associate Professor School of Communication Studies Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, OH 43403 http://personal.bgsu.edu/~radhik http://www.cyberdiva.typepad.com http://www.cyberdiva.org

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Re: [Air-l] mobile taxi tv
by jason.rutter＠manchester.ac.uk 26 Sep '05

26 Sep '05

Thanks for your email but I'm currently away from the office. I am due back on the 4th Oct and will respond to your mail ASAP. Jase -- Dr Jason Rutter FAKE NATION? report now online www.iptocproject.org ESRC DigiPlay Seminar series www.cric.ac.uk/cric/digi/digisems.htm Digiplay Initiative www.digiplay.org.uk ESRC Centre for Research on Innovation and Competition (CRIC), The University of Manchester, Harold Hankins Building, Booth Street West, Manchester, M13 9QH. UK PH: +44 (0) 161 275 6859 Fax: +44 (0) 161 275 7361 http://www.cric.ac.uk/cric/Jason_Rutter

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mobile taxi tv
by Barry Wellman 26 Sep '05

26 Sep '05

Re the AoIR discussion on mobile tv: I experienced an app of mobile tv that scared the heck out of me. In Kyoto, Japan, the taxi driver's GPS system became a TV for him, and he watched soap operas during the entire trip. When I asked a friend, she said, "I do that every day on the drive to work, because I know all the streets." Dunno what the accident rate is. This strikes me as an outgrowth of the now-traditional custom (in Toronto at least) of taxi drivers being on their mobile phones while driving. Which is more immersive: 2-way audio phone chat or 1-way tv? Both scare me when I am passengering. Incidentally, modern Japanese car GPS systems rock. Using large screen divided into multiple information sources, and great, video game perspectives. But why do they have to show every Mcdonalds and 7-11 convenience store along the way? The integrated CD automatically converted my Oscar Peterson disc (patriotic Canadian present) to MP3 as it played. I'm here keynoting the Japanese Social Informatics conference, which has 600 attendees, from a wide spectrum of disciplines -- social sciences, math, physics, engineering. It seems the accessibility of web data has mobilized a number of new entrants to the field. Many have strong data handling skills. Barry _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 To network is to live; to live is to network _____________________________________________________________________

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Fwd: [IP] No 'Net Neutrality' Laws Needed, Panel Says
by jason.rutter＠manchester.ac.uk 25 Sep '05

25 Sep '05

Thanks for your email but I'm currently away from the office. I am due back on the 4th Oct and will respond to your mail ASAP. Jase -- Dr Jason Rutter FAKE NATION? report now online www.iptocproject.org ESRC DigiPlay Seminar series www.cric.ac.uk/cric/digi/digisems.htm Digiplay Initiative www.digiplay.org.uk ESRC Centre for Research on Innovation and Competition (CRIC), The University of Manchester, Harold Hankins Building, Booth Street West, Manchester, M13 9QH. UK PH: +44 (0) 161 275 6859 Fax: +44 (0) 161 275 7361 http://www.cric.ac.uk/cric/Jason_Rutter

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Fwd: [IP] No 'Net Neutrality' Laws Needed, Panel Says
by Jeremy Hunsinger 25 Sep '05

25 Sep '05

> > > > September 23, 2005 > > No 'Net Neutrality' Laws Needed, Panel Says > Government intervention to keep Internet "open" could do more harm > than good, say some observers. > By Lawrance Binda > Courtesy of Advanced IP Pipeline > <http://www.internetweek.com/171200382?cid=test1_rssfeed> > > WASHINGTON, D.C. -- When it comes to Net Neutrality, does the > government know best? > Emphatically no, according to a consensus of telecom professionals > and lobbyists assembled Wednesday in downtown Washington. Among > industry players, concern is mounting over exactly what the FCC > meant when, last month, it issued four basic principles that it > claims will preserve the open and interconnected nature of the net. Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://www.aoir.org The Association of Internet Researchers

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ECAP'06 first call for papers
by Charles Ess 23 Sep '05

23 Sep '05

Dear AoIR-ists, In case you know any philosophy types... (smile) == With the usual apologies for cross-posting and duplication: please distribute widely. First Call for Papers ===================================================================== COMPUTING AND PHILOSOPHY IV European Meeting E-CAP 2006@NTNU Norway Norwegian University for Science and Technology Dragvoll Campus, Trondheim, Norway, June 22-24, 2006 <http://www.eu-cap.org/> Conference Co-Chairs: Charles Ess (Drury University / NTNU): <cmess(a)drury.edu> May Thorseth (NTNU): <may.thorseth(a)hf.ntnu.no> (E-CAP is the European conference on Computing and Philosophy, the European affiliate of the International Association for Computers and Philosophy (IACAP): see <www.iacap.org> for further information.) ===================================================================== IMPORTANT DATES January 27, 2006 Submission of extended abstracts March 1, 2006 Notification of acceptance May 5, 2006 Early registration deadline June 22-24, 2006 Conference GENERAL INFORMATION >From Thursday 22 to Saturday 24 June 2006 the Fourth International European Conference on COMPUTING AND PHILOSOPHY will be held on the Dragvoll Campus of the Norwegian University for Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway. PROGRAM Continuing the foci of the E-CAP conferences (beginning in Glasgow, 2002), ECAP'06 will deal with all aspects of the "computational turn" that has emerged over the past several decades, and continues to expand and develop as a result of the multiple interactions between philosophy and computing. Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Dr. Raymond Turner, Department of Computer Science University of Essex, UK <http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/staff/turnr/> Dr. Vincent Hendricks, Department of Philosophy and Science Studies Roskilde University, Denmark <http://akira.ruc.dk/~vincent/> RELEVANT RESEARCH AREAS We invite papers that address all topics related to computing and philosophy, including cross- and interdisciplinary work that explores the computational turn in new ways. Hence, the following is intended to be suggestive, but not exclusive: - Philosophy of Computer Science - co-chairs, Amnon H. Eden, Raymond Turner (Essex) (see <http://pcs.essex.ac.uk/ecap06/cfp.html>) - Ontology (Distributed Processing, Emergent Properties, Formal Ontology, Network Structures, etc) - chair, Luciano Floridi (Oxford) - Computational Linguistics- chair, Staffan Larsson (Gothenburg University) - Global Information Infrastructures - chair, Johnny Søraker (NTNU) - Philosophy of Information and Information Technology - Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Problem of Consciousness - Computer-based Learning and Teaching Strategies and Resources & The Impact of Distance Learning on the Teaching of Philosophy and Computing - IT and Gender Research, Feminist Technoscience Studies - Information and Computing Ethics - Biological Information, Artificial Life, Biocomputation - New Models of Logic Software - "Intersections" - e.g., work at the crossroads of logic, epistemology, philosophy of science and ICT/Computing, such as Philosophy of AI SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Authors should submit an electronic version of an extended abstract (total word count approximately 1000 words). The file should also contain a 300 word abstract that will be used for the conference web site/booklet. Final papers must not exceed a total word count of 3500 words and an abstract of not more than 500 words. The submissions should be made electronically, either as PDF, rtf ,or Word format. To submit papers visit <http://www.eu-cap.org/submit> The extended abstract submission deadline is Friday 27th January 2006. WORK IN PROGRESS (WiP) SESSION A special Work in Progress (WiP) session will be organized. This session is mainly intended for presentation of on-going and recent work. Accepted papers will not be included in the conference proceedings; instead they will be published through the www. Submission should be sent in the same format as extended abstracts. Please indicate on your submission: WiP. For information about paper submission and the program that is not available on the conference web site (<http://www.eu-cap.org/>), please contact the Conference Co-Chairs. REGISTRATION Registration will take place through the conference website, <http://www.eu-cap.org/> ACCOMMODATION To book accommodation, please visit the conference web site, <http://www.eu-cap.org/>/ VENUE The NTNU campus at Dragvoll offers excellent conference facilities as well a beautiful physical setting as it overlooks Trondheim and the Trondheim fjord. The city of Trondheim (Norway's ancient capital and home to the Nidaros Cathedral, the largest Gothic cathedral north of the Rhine) is easily accessible by air and rail, and is itself more than worth the visit. (Beyond city-related information provided on the conference website, start with <http://www.trondheim.com/>) == Charles Ess Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies Drury University 900 N. Benton Ave. Voice: 417-873-7230 Springfield, MO 65802 USA FAX: 417-873-7435 Home page: http://www.drury.edu/ess/ess.html Co-chair, CATaC: http://www.catacconference.org Professor II, Globalization and Applied Ethics Programmes Norwegian University of Science and Technology NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway http://www.anvendtetikk.ntnu.no/pres/bridgingcultures.php Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23

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[Fwd: [km4dev-l] second issue of the KM4Dev e-journal now on-line]
by Michel J. Menou 22 Sep '05

22 Sep '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [km4dev-l] second issue of the KM4Dev e-journal now on-line Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 19:48:36 -0500 From: Staiger, Simone (CIAT) <s.staiger(a)cgiar.org> Reply-To: KM for Development <km4dev-l(a)dgroups.org> To: KM for Development <km4dev-l(a)dgroups.org> Dear KM4Dev community, in the name of the guest editors of the second issue of the KM4D Journal I am happy to announce that the volume entitled "Approaches to promote knowledge sharing in international development organizations" is now on-line at www.km4dev.org/journal <http://www.km4dev.org/journal> . (click on CURRENT on the top of the page). This issue presents papers on experiences with knowledge sharing in international development organisations, highlighting strategies and approaches used to foster knowledge sharing in diverse settings and presenting their results. We hope you enjoy this issue of the journal, and we look forward to the many fruitful discussions that it will stimulate. Simone Allison Hewlitt, Doug Horton, Nathan Russell and Simone Staiger-Rivas with Lucie Lamoureux Guest Editors, Approaches to promote knowledge sharing in international development organisations Simone Staiger-Rivas Communications Unit Webpublishing Knowledge Sharing - InforCom Project (Information and Communications for Rural Communities ) CIAT (Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical) E-mail: s.staiger(a)cgiar.org CIAT Web site: www.ciat.cgiar.org InforCom Web site: www.ciat.cgiar.org/inforcom Knowledge Sharing Web site: http://www.ciat.cgiar.org/cgiar/knowledge_sharing/home.htm --- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.11.4/109 - Release Date: 21/09/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.11.4/109 - Release Date: 21/09/2005

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"Electronic advocacy" article for Wikipedia.Org
by Deborah Elizabeth Finn 21 Sep '05

21 Sep '05

Dear Colleagues, I've created an "Electronic advocacy" article for Wikipedia.Org, and would like to invite you to contribute to it: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_advocacy> Many thanks and best regards from Deborah Deborah Elizabeth Finn Boston, Massachusetts, USA deborah_elizabeth_finn(a)post.harvard.edu http://blog.deborah.elizabeth.finn.com/blog http://public.xdi.org/=deborah.elizabeth.finn

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