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Wikipedia survey for the Sztakipedia project
by Mihály Héder 05 Oct '11

05 Oct '11

Dear All, I would like to ask you a little, but important help. I'm doing research on the future of the Wikipedia editor interface. In order to understand better the view of the Wikiepedia users I compiled a survey. With filling the forms you can contribute to the survey, and your view will be taken into account assessing the general requirements of the editors of Wikipedia, and also that of the readers of Wikipedia. Please help me by filling the following form (it takes 3 minutes max): http://pedia.sztaki.hu/survey_en *and* by forwarding this mail to everyone you can think of. The more (and not only tech-savvy) people we reach, the better. So please, do not leave out anyone who has the slightest chance to use the internet (friends, family, students, mailing lists, neighbours, classmates, co-workers, etc.) The results will be available in raw form and explained by 31/03/2011 at: http://pedia.sztaki.hu , and also I will compile a white paper in the subject (strictly for an Open Access journal) (if this letter reaches you more than once it is my fault) Thank you very much: Mihály Héder Computer and Automation Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences + Budapest University of Technology, Philosophy of Science PhD student

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How to run successful webinars? Presentation on Tue 16 Nov 2010
by Fred Dervin 23 May '11

23 May '11

The 2010 Global Education Conference is being held November 15 - 19, 2010, online and free. Sessions will take place in multiple time zones and multiple languages over the five days. http://www.globaleducationconference.com/ TITLE: How to run successful webinars? Lessons learnt and challenges for learning and collaboration at a global level. PRESENTER: Fred Dervin,, University of Turku, Finland (Finland) CO-PRESENTER: Katerina Zourou, University of Luxembourg TIME: GMT Tue 16 Nov 2010 01:00PM click for international time conversions: http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=11&day=16&year=2010&… SESSION ROOM: https://sas.elluminate.com/d.jnlp?sid=gec2010&password=D.616E7D3800C4CE47B7… to enter the Elluminate session room, open one hour before session. FORMAT: Presentation LANGUAGE: English SHORT DESCRIPTION: Although the number of webinars (i.e. events streamed live over the Internet) is rapidly growing, the orchestration of such events in terms of communication, modes of delivery, opportunities for interaction and follow-up is in its infancy. Moreover, gathering a worldwide audience challenges our understanding of how to address a large number of multicultural participants. The presentation is based on findings from two public webinars, hosted by the University of Turku (Finland) and the University of Luxembourg in 2010. An examination of the events will allow us to identify 5 success factors and a set of quality indicators. Shortcomings in running webinars will also be discussed based on our experience. The presentation ends with some reflections on the nature of interaction in live online events, namely the chat function as a means of learning and group cohesion among online participants, and as a catalyst for interaction between the group and the panelists.

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Where SETI data will go?
by Federico monaco 30 Apr '11

30 Apr '11

I'm looking for information on SETI (Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence project) history and how data have been managed through the years, by what CMS, by a library? An archive? How this database has grown and where the data are going to be stored and used now that SETI should turn off? i know anyone can join in and process on his own computer signals from space, but i miss the rest of the story, the infrastructural one. Can someone help me? Thank you Federico Monaco Ph.D. Science Technology & Society Studies Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere V.le San Michele, 9 - 43100 Parma tel. ufficio: +390521904744 mobile: +393474687134 Inviato da iPad

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CfP: Online communities in social and caring professions (workshop at ECSCW)
by Dearden, Andrew M. 30 Apr '11

30 Apr '11

Call for Participation:Online communities in social and caring professions A workshop at ECSCW 2011 <http://www.ecscw2011.org/> Aarhus, Denmark, 24th September 2011 Workshop Theme Understanding and supporting the practices of collaborative work is one of the core goals of CSCW research. Online communities are an important setting in which shared work practices can emerge and become subject to joint improvement. The concept of communities of practice is frequently mentioned in this context. This workshop will take a closer look at the interplay of technical, social and learning aspects of communities of practice for social and caring professions. These domains have in common that the typical primary activity does not involve computer use to a large extent. Communities of practice still exist (and have their value), but the opportunities for computer mediated communication in these communities are not well investigated. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners experienced in communities for social and caring professions. We will discuss lessons learned with the goal of finding socio-technical design patterns and determining a research roadmap. How to Participate We invite you to share your experiences with designing, facilitating or studying online-communities in caring and social professions. Relevant topics are (but not limited to): -Self-organization and moderation of these communities -Communities of practice involving both professionals and volunteers -Communities of service providers and their relationship with service users -Sharing innovative work practices in on-line communities -Communities for learning, support and improvement of practices -Inter-organizational learning in communities -Communities fostering Open Innovation -Blended interactions in communities (combining co-located face to face interaction with distributed online interaction) -Engagement of "digital immigrants" (i.e. people who are less familiar with digital communications technologies) in online communities -Knowledge sharing in communities -The role of mobile devices as community support technologies -Communities that cross international borders Please submit a short position paper no longer than 6 pages. Submissions should be sent electronically to till.scheummer(a)fernuni-hagen.de <mailto:till.scheummer@fernuni-hagen.de>. Please adhere to the ECSCW style guidelines found at the ECSCW web site (e.g., http://www.ecscw09.org/authors/ECSCW_template.doc) The workshop organizing committee will review all papers. Workshop participants will be selected based on the appropriateness and quality of their position paper. On acceptance, you will be asked to 1) prepare a poster about your position paper, 2) read two other position papers to serve as a discussant, and 3) prepare one slide, answering the following questions: 1. Who is the community? 2. How big it the community (number of participants / broadness/ ...)? 3. Major challenges faced? 4. Number one recommendation for someone else? 5. Stuff not to do? All accepted position papers will be published on-line. We are currently negotiating publication opportunities in special issues of highly visible journals in which extended versions of the best contributions shall appear. Important Dates *1st of June 2011:* Deadline for submitting position papers electronically to Till Schümmer (till.schuemmer(a)fernuni-hagen.de) *15th June 2011:* Acceptance notification *28th June 2011:* Early registration deadline for ECSCW 2011 *24th or 25th September 2011: *Workshop in Aarhus, Denmark Please note that workshop participants are required to register for the full conference. Workshop Organizers *Till Schümmer* FernUniversität in Hagen, Cooperative Systems (Germany) /Till.schuemmer(a)fernuni-hagen.de <mailto:Till.schuemmer@fernuni-hagen.de>/ *Niels Pinkwart* Clausthal University of Technology, Department of Informatics (Germany) /niels.pinkwart(a)tu-clausthal.de/ *Andrew M. Dearden* Sheffield Hallam University (UK), Communication & Computing Research Centre (UK) /a.m.dearden(a)shu.ac.uk/ *Ann Light* Sheffield Hallam University (UK), Communication & Computing Research Centre (UK) /a.light(a)shu.ac.uk/ -- Andy Dearden Professor of Interactive Systems Design Communication& Computing Research Centre Sheffield Hallam University Furnival Building 153 Arundel Street Sheffield S1 2NU, UK Tel: +44 114 225 6878 Fax: +44 114 225 2718

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Fwd: ephemera Issue on Digital Labor Released
by jeremy hunsinger 29 Apr '11

29 Apr '11

Begin forwarded message: > From: Stevphen Shukaitis <stevphen(a)AUTONOMEDIA.ORG> > Date: April 29, 2011 12:10:01 PM EDT > To: EPHEMERA(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK > Subject: ephemera Issue on Digital Labor Released > Reply-To: Stevphen Shukaitis <stevphen(a)AUTONOMEDIA.ORG> > > ephemera Issue on Digital Labor Released > > Digital Labour: Workers, Authors, Citizens > ephemera: theory & politics in organization Volume 10 Number 3-4 > http://www.ephemeraweb.org > Edited by Jonathan Burston, Nick Dyer-Witheford and Alison Hearn > > Born out of the conference of the same name held in the fall of 2009 at the University of Western Ontario, this special double issue of ephemera addresses the implications of digital labour as they are emerging in practice, politics, policy, culture, and theoretical enquiry. As workers, as authors, and as citizens, we are increasingly summoned and disciplined by new digital technologies that define the workplace and produce ever more complex regimes of surveillance and control. At the same time, new possibilities for agency and new spaces for collectivity are borne from these multiplying digital innovations. This volume explores this social dialectic, with a specific focus on new forms of labour. Papers examine the histories and theories of digital capitalism, foundational assumptions in debates about digital labour, issues of intellectual property and copyright, material changes in the digital workplace, transnational perspectives on digital labour, the issue of free labour and new definitions of work, and struggles and contests on the scene of digital production. Contributors include Brian Holmes, Andrea Fumagalli and Cristina Morini, David Hesmondhalgh, Ursula Huws, Barry King, Jack Bratich, Enda Brophy and many others. This issue also contains vital contributions from union and guild activists hailing from the Canadian Media Guild (CMG), the Screen Actors Guild (SAG), the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA), the University of Western Ontario Faculty Association and the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT). > > The Digital Labour Group: Jonathan Burston, Edward Comor, James Compton, Nick Dyer-Witheford, Alison Hearn, Ajit Pyati, Sandra Smeltzer, Matt Stahl, Samuel E. Trosow. > > Contents > Brian Holmes - Is it written in the stars? Global finance, precarious destinies > Cristina Morini and Andrea Fumagalli - Life put to work: Towards a life theory of value > Emanuele Leonardi - The imprimatur of capital: Gilbert Simondon and the hypothesis of cognitive capitalism > David Hesmondhalgh - User-generated content, free labour and the cultural industries > Barry King - On the new dignity of labour > Jack Bratich - The digital touch: Craft-work as immaterial labour and ontological accumulation > Sam Trosow - The copyright policy paradox: Overcoming competing agendas in the digital labour movement > Matt Stahl - Primitive accumulation, the social common, and the contractual lockdown of recording artists at the threshold > Michael McNally - Enterprise content management systems and the applicatio of Taylorism and Fordism to intellectual labour > Helen Kennedy - The successful self-regulation of web designers > Sandra Smeltzer and Daniel J. Paré - The labour of ICT4D: Whither the separation of carriage and content? > Ajit Pyati - Re-envisioning the ‘knowledge society’ in India: Resisting neoliberalism and the case for the 'public' > Alison Hearn - Structuring feeling: Web 2.0, online ranking and rating, and the digital 'reputation' economy > Edward Comor - Digital prosumption and alienation > Vincent Manzerolle Mobilizing the audience commodity: Digital labour in a wireless world > Enda Brophy - The subterranean stream: Communicative capitalism and call centre labour > Nick Dyer-Witheford - Digital labour and species-being > Ursula Huws - Expression and expropriation: The dialectics of autonomy and control in creative labour > Lise Lareau - The impact of digital technology on media workers: Life has completely changed > Mark Bradley - What about citizens? > Mike Kraft - The singularity of intellectual property > Melanie Mills - Information workers in the academy: The case of librarians and archivists at The University of Western Ontario > Paul Jones - Digital labour in the academic context: Challenges for academic staff associations jeremy hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech www.tmttlt.com () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://www.stswiki.org/ sts wiki http://transdisciplinarystudies.tmttlt.com/ Transdisciplinary Studies:the book series

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Extended deadline for JCDL workshop STLR2011: Semantic Web Technologies for Libraries and Readers
by Jodi Schneider 29 Apr '11

29 Apr '11

Due to several requests, the STLR 2011 submission deadline has been extended to May 8th. We look forward to your demos, posters, and research papers. Since JCDL workshops are split over two half-days, we're pleased to announce *two* keynote speakers: Bernhard Haslhofer of the University of Vienna and Cathy Marshall of Microsoft Research. Please get in touch if you have questions! -Jodi CALL FOR PARTICIPATION The 1st Workshop on Semantic Web Technologies for Libraries and Readers STLR 2011 June 16 (PM) - 17 (AM) 2011 http://stlr2011.weebly.com/ Co-located with the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2011 Ottawa, Canada While Semantic Web technologies are successfully being applied to library catalogs and digital libraries, the semantic enhancement of books and other electronic media is ripe for further exploration. Connections between envisioned and emerging scholarly objects (which are doubtless social and semantic) and the digital libraries in which these items will be housed, encountered, and explored have yet to be made and implemented. Likewise, mobile reading brings new opportunities for personalized, context-aware interactions between reader and material, enriched by information such as location, time of day and access history. This full-day workshop, motivated by the idea that reading is mobile, interactive, social, and material, will be focused on semantically enhancing electronic media as well as on the mobile and social aspects of the Semantic Web for electronic media, libraries and their users. It aims to bring together practitioners and developers involved in semantically enhancing electronic media (including documents, books, research objects, multimedia materials and digital libraries) as well as academics researching more formal aspects of the interactions between such resources and their users. We also particularly invite entrepreneurs and developers interested in enhancing electronic media using Semantic Web technologies with a user-centered approach. We invite the submission of papers, demonstrations and posters which describe implementations or original research that are related (but are not limited) to the following areas of interest: - Strategies for semantic publishing (technical, social, and economic) - Approaches for consuming semantic representations of digital documents and electronic media - Open and shared semantic bookmarks and annotations for mobile and device-independent use - User-centered approaches for semantically annotating reading lists and/or library catalogues - Applications of Semantic Web technologies for building personal or context-aware media libraries - Approaches for interacting with context-aware electronic media (e.g. location-aware storytelling, context-sensitive mobile applications, use of geolocation, personalization, etc.) - Applications for media recommendations and filtering using Semantic Web technologies - Applications integrating natural language processing with approaches for semantic annotation of reading materials - Applications leveraging the interoperability of semantic annotations for aggregation and crowd-sourcing - Approaches for discipline-specific or task-specific information sharing and collaboration - Social semantic approaches for using, publishing, and filtering scholarly objects and personal electronic media IMPORTANT DATES *EXTENDED* Paper submission deadline: May 8th 2011 Acceptance notification: June 1st 2011 Camera-ready version: June 8th 2011 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Bernhard Haslhofer, University of Vienna Cathy Marshall, Microsoft Research PROGRAM COMMITTEE Each submission will be independently reviewed by 2-3 program committee members. India Amos, Textist, Design Editor at Jubilat, USA Emmanuelle Bermes, Centre Pompidou Virtuel, France Mark Bernstein, Eastgate Systems Inc., USA Uldis Bojars, National Library of Latvia, Latvia Peter Brantley, Internet Archive, USA Dan Brickley, Vrije University Amsterdam, Netherlands Guillaume Cabanac, University of Toulouse, France Tyng-Ruey Chuang, Acamedia Sinica, Taiwan Paolo Ciccarese, Harvard Medical School, USA Tim Clark, Harvard Medical School, USA Liza Daly,Threepress Consulting Inc., USA Kai Eckert, Mannheim University Library, Germany Tudor Groza, University of Queensland, Australia Michael Hausenblas, DERI, National University of Ireland, Ireland Antoine Isaac, Vrije University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Piotr Kowalczyk, Poland Brian O'Leary, Magellan Media Partners, USA Steve Pettifer, University of Manchester, UK Ryan Shaw, University of North Carolina, USA Ross Singer, Talis, USA William Waites, Open Knowledge Foundation, UK Rob Warren, University of Waterloo, Canada ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Alison Callahan, Dept of Biology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada Dr. Michel Dumontier, Dept of Biology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada Jodi Schneider, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland Dr. Lars Svensson, German National Library SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Please use PDF format for all submissions. Semantically annotated versions of submissions, and submissions in novel digital formats, are encouraged and will be accepted in addition to a PDF version. All submissions must adhere to the following page limits: Full length papers: maximum 8 pages Demonstrations: 2 pages Posters: 1 page Use the ACM template for formatting: http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html Submit using EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=stlr2011 Questions? Email stlrworkshop2011(a)gmail.com

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ASIST SIG/CR Call for Panel Proposals for ASIS&T Annual Meeting 2011
by Megan Winget 29 Apr '11

29 Apr '11

(please excuse cross-posting) Hello All: The Classification Research Special Interest Group (SIG/CR) focuses on theoretical and practical issues surround the classification and representation of information for the purposes of organization, collection building, access, and preservation. We are inviting proposals for panels and contributions to panels for submission to the 74th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T). The theme of this year's conference is "Bridgng the Gulf: Communication and Information in Society, Technology and Work," and will be held October 9-13, 2011 in New Orleans. We are interested in panels that address representation and classification issues related to any kind of material: text or non- text, multimedia, games, scientific information, data, metadata, specific implementations of metadata schemas, visualizations, authority, trust, collection building...we also welcome philosophically inclined panels as well as those that are more practical in nature. Proposals should be formatted in accordance with the call for papers (which can be found at: http://www.asis.org/asist2011/am11cfp.html ) but sent to me (Megan Winget - megan(a)ischool.utexas.edu) as attachments. The deadline for panels to ASIST is May 31. 1) If you send me a fully formed panel proposal, I will submit to ASIST with support by SIG/CR. Please have these proposals to me by May 27. 2) If you send me a proposal for an individual panel contribution (but don't actually have a panel formed), I will attempt to facilitate collaboration between people with similar ideas to generate panel proposals. In order to do this and have enough time to then generate fully formed panel proposals, please have these individual paper proposals to me by May 16. To reiterate the deadlines: -If you have a panel idea, you've gotten your speakers lined up, and it's a done deal: May 27 -If you have an idea for a paper, but you don't have any other speakers in mind: May 16. We must have all panel proposals to ASIS&T by May 31. The ASIS&T call for panel proposals reads: Proposals for panels are invited on topics that include emerging cutting-edge research and design, analyses of hot or emerging trends, opinions on controversial issues, analyses of tools and techniques, and contrasting viewpoints from experts in complementary professional areas. Panels are not a substitute for a set of contributed papers, but must have a cohesive theme and promote lively interaction between panellists and audience members. Submit two to four pages that provide an overview of the issues to be discussed by the panel. Proposals should also list panellists who have agreed to participate and indicate the qualifications and contribution that each panellist will offer. Proposals for Pecha Kucha style presentations, are encouraged. If you have any questions whatsoever, please do not hesitate to contact me (megan(a)ischool.utexas.edu) or Joe Tennis (jtennis(a)uw.edu) and we will be happy to help. I'm looking forward to reading some interesting proposals! Megan Winget Chair, SIG/CR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Megan A. Winget, Ph.D. Assistant Professor School of Information University of Texas at Austin 1616 Guadalupe, Ste. 5.202 Austin, TX 78701-1213 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Phone: 512.919.6100 Fax: 512.471.3971 web: http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~megan/ email: megan(a)ischool.utexas.edu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Couch Award deadline extended
by Mark D. Johns 29 Apr '11

29 Apr '11

CALL FOR AWARD APPLICATIONS Carl J. Couch Internet Research Award 2011 Sponsored by the Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research http://www.cccsir.com/ The Carl Couch Center issues an annual call for student-authored papers to be considered for Carl J. Couch Internet Research Award. The Couch Center welcomes both theoretical and empirical papers that (1) apply symbolic interactionist approaches to Internet studies, (2) demonstrate interactive relationships between social interaction and communication technologies, and/or (3) develop symbolic interactionist concepts in new directions. Papers will be evaluated based on the quality of (1) mastery of symbolic interactionist approaches and concepts, (2) originality, (3) organization, (4) presentation, and (5) advancement of knowledge. Evaluation will be administered by a Review Committee of four: Mark D. Johns, Luther College, Decorah, Iowa Annette Markham, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee Lois Ann Scheidt, Indiana University, Bloomington Dennis Waskul, Minnesota State University, Mankato Competition is open to graduate or undergraduate students of all disciplines. Works that are published or accepted for publication are not eligible for award consideration. Entries should not exceed 30 pages (approximately 7500 words) in length, including references and appendices. Limit of one entry per student per year. The top three papers will receive Couch Awards to be presented at the 2011 meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers (aoir.org) at the University of Washington, Seattle. The top paper will be awarded a certificate and a cash prize of $300 US, runner up will receive a certificate and a cash prize of $200 US, and a third paper will receive a certificate and a cash prize of $100 US. All three authors will be invited to present their work at a session of the AoIR conference, October 20-22, 2011 in Seattle. Those interested should send a copy of their paper, with a 100-word abstract, electronically to Mark D. Johns at mjohns(a)luther.edu APPLICATION DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO MAY 13, 2011. Notification of award will be sent by June 15. Those with questions or comments about Couch Award application, please contact: Mark D. Johns Dept. of Communication Studies Luther College, Decorah, IA 52101 USA Tel: (563) 387-1347 E-mail: mjohns(a)luther.edu

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Six new posts at the Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds
by Stephen Coleman 28 Apr '11

28 Apr '11

The following positions are currently being advertised: • Chair in Communication (job ref PVCOM0007) Closing date: 23 May 2011 • Lectureship in Journalism (job ref PVCOM0003) Closing date 12 May 2011 • Lectureship in Communication Studies (Public Relations) (job ref PVCOM0004) Closing date 12 May 2011 • University Research Fellowship: Transformations in Broadcasting (job ref PVCOM0006) Closing date 26 May 2011 • 2 Lectureships in Communication Studies (job ref: PVCOM0005) Closing date 1 June 2011 Details can be found on the University of Leeds jobs website http://www.leeds.ac.uk/universityjobs The Institute of Communications Studies is one of the oldest and largest departments of communication, media and cultural studies in Europe, with over 600 undergraduate students, 170 postgraduates, and 30 PhD researchers, housed in a superb new building at the heart of the Leeds campus. We are a highly regarded multidisciplinary research department, with particular strengths in the analysis of international communication, media industries and political communication,and emerging strengths in journalism and visual communication. We offer four undergraduate and five postgraduate degrees, taught by over 30 academic staff. ICS combines strengths in critical communication and media research with the teaching of communication history, theory and practical skills. Stephen Coleman Professor of Political Communication Institute of Communications Studies University of Leeds <http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521817523>

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Facebook virus alert
by Ken Friedman 28 Apr '11

28 Apr '11

Friends, My Facebook account seems to have been hacked when I responded to a message from a colleague at a US university that turned out to be a virus. The trick seems to be that the message comes from friends as a fun event to see who has been stalking your page. When you try it, it raids your address book to contact all your friends, and when people use it, the process goes on. The message is actually a quiz phishing for mobile phone numbers. To get the information from the "game," you take a quiz, but the quiz is itself linked to a mobile phone payment system. The program is activated and spread when you paste it into the URL bar, and by the time you discover that this has happened, it raids your address book, then it contacts your friends. I spent thirty minutes trying to find out how to report phishing abuse, but the system gets into a recurrent loop without ever allowing me to report this. Since many people on this list use Facebook and some are my Facebook friends, I am sending this warning to the list. If the virus gets to you and you know how to report this to Facebook, I'd be grateful for you to either do so or perhaps tell me how. Since Facebook reporting doesn't permit you to make a simple report -- at least not from Australia -- I do not know to stop it. Most of what I get through Facebook doesn't interest me. The message and information are trivial and I don't use Facebook for any serious email or contact information. I'm thinking of unplugging. If Facebook cannot provide real security help with their billions of dollars, it's not worth remaining on the system. For now, my apologies if a message seemingly from me contacts you via my Facebook account. I never contact people through my Facebook account -- I use email. Best regards, Ken Professor Ken Friedman, PhD, DSc (hc), FDRS | Distinguished University Professor | Dean, Faculty of Design | Swinburne University of Technology | Melbourne, Australia | kenfriedman(a)groupwise.swin.edu.au | Ph: +61 3 9214 6078 | www.swinburne.edu.au/design

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