image credit: Dead Air (Flickr) The brainchild of an English soccer fan, myfootballclub.co.uk originally launched in 2007 with the aim of recruiting at least 50,000 soccer enthusiasts from around the world to donate £35 each to buy a real soccer team. The site collected the necessary amount of dona...

There has been a conflation of blog posts and news stories that have really set my brain on fire this week, starting with an amazing post and comment discussion over at Walking Paper by Aaron Schmidt.  Then there was a quick email conversation with Michael Porter about the future of libraries if we...

Y'all should hop on over to see what Christ Dena has to say about the pervasive binary thinking we're seeing online with increasing frequency of late.  It's an excellent point. I know everything I've ever done, no matter how good or how bad, is an aggregate of much smaller succ...

Christopher Beam at Slate has a lively article about the Republican National Committee’s meeting to come up with new ways of using the new media to build the party back up. The article gives the sense of a group that simultaneously is Getting It and Floundering in It....

danah boyd, John Palfrey, and Dena Sacco, three co-authors of the recent Internet Safety Technical Task Force are giving a Berkman lunch. (Laura Debonis, chair of the technical advisory board, steps in a minute late because of the snow.) (You can hear a podcast with JP and here. You can read the rep...

Nicholas Lemann has a terrific piece in the Jan. 26 New Yorker that says that personal characteristics are not enough to make someone a great president. To achieve that status, Obama “has to create institutions that will outlast him.” His examples are the United Nations, NATO, and social...

A site called Christian Colleges has posted a list of top 100 open courseware courses in theology and philosophy. Open courseware, of course, are real world courses recorded for distribution over the Net. MIT has blazed this path, and this particular Top 100 list is dominated by courses from that sc...

It's no secret that Barack Obama has been expediting the transition of power from the Bush regime administration for some time now. Whether mundane--the national shelter search for the perfect Labradoodle comes to mind--or as serious as Gaza, Obama is making his will felt in much the same way that h...

So the ALA is taking a hint from the US Presidential elections and taking questions from YouTube…with some caveats. Here’s the email that went out to ALA members: Members Invited to Submit Questions to ALA Presidential Candidates via YouTube Do you have a question you’re dying to ask t...

"A study just published in the journal CyberPsychology and Behavior has reviewed all of the available scientific studies on internet addiction and found them to be mostly crap. And not just slightly lacking, really pretty awful."...