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Some of you may yet not have paid any attention to the fact that I’m living, working and teaching in beautiful Vienna, capital of Austria. No surprise, as I usually don’t blog about .at-specific topics on this blog. But today I have to make an exception as Austrian minister of scientific affairs Johannes Hahn recently announced – as a complete surprise to all involved parties by the way – that Austria will quit the CERN project. Naturally, a massive wave of protest has risen among Austrian scientists and a petition has been put online. Read the rest of this entry »

Lonja explains the technical development of the internet in an elegant and nearly-hypnotic short video, only using picol.org black-and-white icons. Very instructive movie – I will definitely show this to plenty of my students in the next couple of years:

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Bite, lick, or tackle them back, or click here to theorize about what this all means. I’m very happy to publish the first guest posting here on datadirt. Kim De Vries, who I met via Facebook, wrote a very interesting paper about the symbolic kind of communication we all know so well from social networks like Facebook. “He who never superpoked shall throw the first rock” – enjoy the reading! Dr. Kim De Vries is working at the California State University Stanislaus, you can reach her at kdevries [at] csustan.edu Read the rest of this entry »