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A spam to remember ....
by Ken Friedman 22 Feb '02

22 Feb '02

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the double negative
by Lachlan Brown 22 Feb '02

22 Feb '02

Well... The double negative is a victim of Scholasticism in the 15th century. Prior to the application of Latin grammatical rules to the English language when the rough speeche was admitted to the provincial Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, subaltern to the greater Universities of Europe, the double negative, which reinforced refusal, was perfectly good grammar in English. I can assure you that it still is, particularly in situations or in conditions where the language is stressed contextually. It carries and delivers the tremendous force and vigour in the language: 'I never did nothing': 'twice over am I to be considered innocent of the charge!' It is usually accompanied by a bodily gesture and two balled fists. Alliterative English would never be nowhere without the double negative. Consider the Old English Poem 'The Seafarer'... another time maybe. What are 'Nordic Sports' at Luther? Sounds rough and Hebridean. Lachlan Brown Barry Wellman wrote: > Hey, I didn't do nothing wrong. Oh, no, Barry! Not only are the investigation paranoia police after you, now you're going to have the grammar police after you, too! -- _______________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup 1 cent a minute calls anywhere in the U.S.! http://www.getpennytalk.com/cgi-bin/adforward.cgi?p_key=RG9853KJ&url=http:/…

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mea non culpa
by Barry Wellman 22 Feb '02

22 Feb '02

Hey, I didn't do nothing wrong. I gave out the fact that the guy has just discovered that he was Born (not now using) with the same name as me. He's not identifiable as such on the web or any directory. Is Google-using now a crime? If so I commited again, by searching on Lachlin's name. I didn't give out his current name nor his address. And since when is finding out where someone lives on Mapquest an ethical or a moral crime? I wanted to find out if there was anyone with that name in that city. All I said was "suburban crescents," which limits ID to about 3/4 of the residential parts of that growing city , I'd guess. And actually I think I do know about 1/3 of the people on this list. I will take folks' advice and call the guy, from a non-primary phone and with *67 call-display blocked disabled. As there seems to be some interest: If it's kosher, I will ask my namesake's permission to report back here. If it ain't kosher, I willprovide some summary info. But it may not be for a while, as everyone once in a while I gotta do some work, take a trip (guest lecturing at CMU Wed & Thurs for all those P'burghers online), and even relax for a while. I have neither time nor interest to get into a flame war, & won't respond any mor. But that's my .02. YMMV. Barry ___________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman(a)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 ___________________________________________________________________

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Jimpunk visits Mouchette at the m.org.ue
by Lachlan Brown 22 Feb '02

22 Feb '02

http://www.mouchette.org/film/stills/dead.html http://www.jimpunk.com/www/m.org.ue/ -- _______________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup 1 cent a minute calls anywhere in the U.S.! http://www.getpennytalk.com/cgi-bin/adforward.cgi?p_key=RG9853KJ&url=http:/…

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CFP: THE THIRD WIRELESS WORLD CONFERENCE
by Wendy Robinson 22 Feb '02

22 Feb '02

FYI: Last year's "Mobilize!" conf looked quite intriguing. But I'm just the messenger. If interested in the CFP, please reply to the address below. >The Digital World Research Centre > >ANNOUNCES > >THE THIRD WIRELESS WORLD CONFERENCE: >THE SOCIAL SHAPING OF MOBILE FUTURES > > >17th-18th July 2002 > >Digital World Research Centre >University of Surrey >Guildford >United Kingdom > > >Conference Theme: Location! Location! Location! > >The conference will bring together researchers from different disciplines >and sectors interested in the relationship between location and mobile >technologies. > >Location is one of the driving topics within the mobile industry, but it can >mean very different things. It can imply services and applications, but it >can also have implications for the form factors of future location-sensitive >mobile technologies. There are also public and private locations with >appropriate codes of behaviour in each. Mobile devices may impact these >codes, and may ultimately introduce changes in cultural practices. On a >larger scale, mobile technologies may impact geography, and the way we >inhabit and perceive urban and non-urban spaces. > >Little research has been reported that does more than make conjectures about >what location-based services and form factors might be, or which points >toward the changes in cultural practices that the alteration of public and >private space might be creating. It is in this context that this conference >will bring together leading academic and commercial researchers to report on >the latest empirical and conceptual research in the general area of >location. The conference will be of interest to researchers in sociology, >anthropology, psychology, HCI-CHI, CSCW, design, urban studies, media >studies, and geography. This conference may also be of interest to those who >work in organisations that provide location-based services, and those that >provide the hardware and networks for such services. > >A selection of the proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag. > >Themes of interest include: > >- Working and Domestic Life >- Space, Time and Mobility >- Public and Private Spaces & Behaviour >- Usability >- Design and Form Factors of Mobile Technologies >- Modalities of Communication and Interaction >- Consumption, Media and Culture >- Cross-Cultural Studies >- Comparative Technologies >- Organisation and Industry > > >Call for Papers > >Deadline for submission of papers is 25th April. Notification of acceptance >will be sent in 10th May. Final versions of paper will be due 14th June. A >selection of papers will be submitted for publication as a book in >September. > >A restricted-access website and a Bulletin Board will be established on the >DWRC website for announcements, timetable updates, and discussion. > > >Important Dates > >Papers >25th April 2002 Deadline for Conference Paper Submission >10th May 2002 Notification of Acceptance >14th June Final versions >7th July Proceedings posted on DWRC Website > >Registration >31st May Registration deadline > >Contacts >Prof. Richard Harper and/or Dr Amparo Lasen >Digital World Research Centre >University of Surrey >Guildford >Surrey GU2 7XH >United Kingdom > >Telephone: (+44) (0) 1483 689446 >Fax: (+44) (0) 1483 689550 >email: r.harper(a)surrey.ac.uk > a.lasen(a)surrey.ac.uk > dwrc(a)surrey.ac.uk >Website: www.surrey.ac.uk/dwrc/wireless3.html

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Dragonnet
by Lachlan Brown 22 Feb '02

22 Feb '02

[for some reason this post did not go through first time] The aesthetics of erasure a personal favourite: http://www.epic.org/privacy/carnivore/dragonnet.html Lachlan Brown http://...- -- _______________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup 1 cent a minute calls anywhere in the U.S.! http://www.getpennytalk.com/cgi-bin/adforward.cgi?p_key=RG9853KJ&url=http:/…

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Carnivore, Omnivore, Amerivore, Va
by Lachlan Brown 22 Feb '02

22 Feb '02

http://www.epic.org/privacy/carnivore/omnivoreproposal.html http://www.epic.org/privacy/carnivore/carnivorediagrams.html http://www.epic.org/privacy/carnivore/purpose.html http://www.epic.org/privacy/carnivore/army.html http://www.epic.org/privacy/carnivore/omnivorecloseout2.html http://www.epic.org/privacy/carnivore/jud_comm.html http://www.epic.org/privacy/carnivore/deployments.html -- _______________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup 1 cent a minute calls anywhere in the U.S.! http://www.getpennytalk.com/cgi-bin/adforward.cgi?p_key=RG9853KJ&url=http:/…

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The Other Barry Wellman?
by Lachlan Brown 22 Feb '02

22 Feb '02

I'm a one-man flamewar, Barry, methodologically speaking. Sorry, It's my way of saying 'hello'. Ask Morley. An outcome of a seven year cultural anthropology of Internet, [The Internet Edda?] a journey through a distinctly familiar/unfamiliar culture, western technoculture and the institutions it impacted/impacts. >I will take folks' advice and call the guy, >from a non-primary phone and >with *67 call-display blocked disabled. Seems sensible, lol. But let's get beyond the paranoia bound up in our technologies and our selves. Some of the language reacting to my intervention 'erasure', 'redundancy', 'exterminate' seems to be taken from the Dalek lexicon. I come in peace. Lachlan Brown lachlanbrown(a)london.com thirdnet limited - who.dares.wins -- _______________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup 1 cent a minute calls anywhere in the U.S.! http://www.getpennytalk.com/cgi-bin/adforward.cgi?p_key=RG9853KJ&url=http:/…

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Re: references on gender, age, support & info tech use
by Caroline Haythornthwaite 22 Feb '02

22 Feb '02

I'd like to add a few more references on social support and the use of technology. The first two show how support from other online learners helps distance students cope. The second two take look at how those who mix work or school and home, and explore some of what other kinds of pressures exist with bringing online work into the home. /Caroline Caroline Haythornthwaite, Michelle M. Kazmer, Jennifer Robins & Susan Shoemaker Community Development Among Distance Learners: Temporal and Technological Dimensions, JCMC 6(1) http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol6/issue1/haythornthwaite.html Kazmer, M.M. (2000). Coping in a distance environment: Sitcoms, chocolate cake, and dinner with a friend. First Monday, 5(9). http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue5_9/kazmer/index.html Kazmer, M.M. & Haythornthwaite, C. (2001). Juggling multiple social worlds: Distance students on and offline. American Behavioral Scientist, 45(3), 510-529. [Slightly different take on this but along the same lines to appear in B. Wellman & C. Haythornthwaite (Eds.), The Internet in everday life. Oxford, UK: Blackwells.] Janet Salaff, Where Home is the Office: The New Form of Flexible Work to appear in B. Wellman & C. Haythornthwaite (Eds.), The Internet in everday life. Oxford, UK: Blackwells.] At 12:01 PM 2/20/02 -0500, you wrote: >--__--__-- > >Message: 1 >Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 15:21:28 -0500 (EST) >From: Eszter Hargittai <eszter(a)phoenix.Princeton.EDU> >To: air-l(a)aoir.org >Subject: [Air-l] references on gender, age, support & info tech use >Reply-To: air-l(a)aoir.org > >Hi, > >A few weeks ago I asked for references to work on gender, age and the >importance of social support in the use of information technologies. >Here's a list of materials to which people (from this and some other >lists) pointed me and additional pieces I found while doing more research >on the topic. Thanks to all those who sent me suggestions! > >Eszter >--- >http://www.eszter.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- Caroline Haythornthwaite (haythorn(a)uiuc.edu) Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science Coordinator, Undergraduate Minor in Information Technology Studies University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 501 East Daniel St., Champaign, IL, 61820 phone: 217-244-7453 fax: 217-244-3302 Faculty home page: http://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/gslis/people/faculty/haythorn.html Personal home page: http://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/~haythorn/

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digital library grants
by Nancy Baym 22 Feb '02

22 Feb '02

New grant opportunity that may be of interest to air-l subscribers: The NSF and the United Kingdom Joint Information Systems Committee are looking to fund joint activities in the US and UK higher ed institutions that will demonstrate how innovative applications of emerging information technology and digital resoures can transform teaching and learning. See: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/nsf/proj_0010.html or: http://www.dli2.nsf.gov

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