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		<title>Emerging technologies</title>
		<link>http://pickingupsticks.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/emerging-technologies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:49:59 +0000</pubDate>
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The 2009 Horizon Report is out.  It&#8217;s a qualitative study which tries to predict which emerging technologies will take root in educational and research environments.  The predictions are that within the next year cloud computing and mobiles (mobiles have been in the last three reports as well) will be standard fare in school and research [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pickingupsticks.wordpress.com&blog=4177853&post=600&subd=pickingupsticks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This week in sustainability news</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:23:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Big: Literally big &#8211; giant islands of rubbish floating on the surface of the oceans.  The NYTimes reports.

Interesting: 100 bloggers simultaneously post reviews of books printed in an eco-friendly fashion.  Check out the links to the reviews on Eco-Libris.
Eye-opening: Rachel Pike provides a glimpse into the huge amount of scientific research that underlies the newspaper [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pickingupsticks.wordpress.com&blog=4177853&post=592&subd=pickingupsticks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PhD comics</title>
		<link>http://pickingupsticks.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/phd-comics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mktheberge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ha.

See more here.
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		<title>Notes from IPF09 II</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mktheberge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Live from IPF09 Conference &#8211; live stream here &#8211; you can also follow on twitter with the #ipf09 tag
A warning up front if you&#8217;re reading this:  these notes are just for my mental retention &#8211; they are filled with indecipherable abbreviations and misspellings that I don&#8217;t want to take time to fix&#8230;
Sat afternoon @ 5th [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pickingupsticks.wordpress.com&blog=4177853&post=584&subd=pickingupsticks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Notes from IPF09</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:08:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Live from IPF09 Conference &#8211; live stream here &#8211; you can also follow on twitter with the #ipf09 tag
A warning up front if you&#8217;re reading this:  these notes are just for my mental retention &#8211; they are filled with indecipherable abbreviations and misspellings that I don&#8217;t want to take time to fix&#8230;
Sat morn session @5th [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pickingupsticks.wordpress.com&blog=4177853&post=580&subd=pickingupsticks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Quick notes from recent articles</title>
		<link>http://pickingupsticks.wordpress.com/2009/11/13/quick-notes-from-recent-articles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mktheberge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Redclift, M 2009  The Environment and Carbon Dependence: Landscapes of Sustainability and Materiality. Current Sociology 57(3):369-387
Thoroughly summarises the evolution of the idea of ‘sustainability’ and the intersections with business, politics, and environmental movements.  Also discusses various approaches to thinking about sustainability, including social constructivist perspectives, writing “The argument is that the social construction of nature [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pickingupsticks.wordpress.com&blog=4177853&post=575&subd=pickingupsticks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Talking about life online</title>
		<link>http://pickingupsticks.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/talking-about-life-online/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:11:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mktheberge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Charles Ess, digital media scholar/refiner of internet research ethics/philosopher of online life , gave his inaugural lecture in September at the Institute of Information and Media Studies, Aarhus University.  He is also president of the Association of Internet Researchers and just published a book this year, Digital Media Ethics. 
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		<title>ASAANZ conference abstract</title>
		<link>http://pickingupsticks.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/asaanz-conference-abstract/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:08:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mktheberge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Association of Social Anthropologists of Aotearoa/New Zealand is accepting abstracts for their 2009 conference, Re-thinking Community in Contemporary Anthropology.  The stand-out thing about this year&#8217;s conference is that people are encouraged to participate by creating you-tube presentations.  For me it means I can present a paper without having to fork out the cash to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pickingupsticks.wordpress.com&blog=4177853&post=564&subd=pickingupsticks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tactical art for social shaking</title>
		<link>http://pickingupsticks.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/tactical-art-for-social-shaking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:34:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mktheberge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night at the Tactical Art For Social Shaking talk Leonidas Martin, artivist and professor of new media and political art, was introduced with a brief speech about how activism and politics boils down to the art of persuasion.  What Leonidas Martin does is use mass culture, humour and spectacle to meet people half way; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pickingupsticks.wordpress.com&blog=4177853&post=556&subd=pickingupsticks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This week in sustainability news</title>
		<link>http://pickingupsticks.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/this-week-in-sustainability-news-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mktheberge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stripping supermodels and climate change:  Joe at Cognitive Policy Works highlights how important it is for social activists to understand how the human mind operates by deconstructing this 350.org video to examine the metaphors it uses to get its point across.

Salon interviews Al Gore:  Gore remains hopeful on climate change and discusses America&#8217;s environmental politics [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pickingupsticks.wordpress.com&blog=4177853&post=552&subd=pickingupsticks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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