Debriefing Wikimania 2012 (part 2)
The theme of education was pretty pervasive during this year conference. Despite of the myths that surround Wikipedia in popular culture, and the fears of high ...
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Debriefing Wikimania 2012 (part 1)
I am glad I finally had the opportunity to participate in Wikimania, the international conference where wikipidians and other wiki practitioners get together to...
Children Culture, Software, and the Home Computer (Part 2)
Children-Computer Symbiosis and the Reinvention of Childhood Since the 1950s, researchers in the fields of artificial intelligence, cybernetics, and computer sc...
Children Culture, Software, and the Home Computer (Part 1)
The cover of BYTE magazine (the small systems journal) from November, 1976, is a color photograph of two children sat in front of what it seems to be a home com...
Outer Space and the Home/Personal Computer
The history of the personal computer revolution has several myths. Some of them focus on individual geniuses (hackers, nerds, or hippies), others on single mach...
Streams of Now: Twitter’s Real-Time Conversational Environment and the Network Society
“Diffuse with the speed of thought, a knowledge of all that is occurring throughout the land” (Samuel Morse, 1938) In January 27 of 2006, after 155 ...
Situating the NML skills in SCRATCH
Last July I attended to the SCRATCH@MIT conference that took place at the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts. People from all over the world met during t...