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Gregory Donovan (ITF)
PhD Candidate in [Environmental Psychology]; [ITP] Certificate Candidate; Founder/Coordinator of [OpenCUNY] Academic Medium; Senior [ITF] at Macaulay Honors College; Principal Investigator of MyDigitalFootprint.ORG
Homepage: http://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/members/gdonovan/
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by Gregory Donovan (ITF) on March 29, 2008 at 8:48 pm · Filed under cyberenviro
From John Dewey’s “The School and Society,” pp100:
It was forgotten that the maximum appeal, and the full meaning in the life of the child, could be secured only when the studies were presented, not as bare external studies, but from the standpoint of the relation they bear to the life of society. It was forgotten […]
by Gregory Donovan (ITF) on March 6, 2008 at 6:44 pm · Filed under cyberenviro
via secrecy news:
The Government Accountability Office maintains an office at the National Security Agency but it remains unused since no one in Congress has asked GAO to perform any oversight of the Agency, the head of GAO disclosed last week.
Despite multi-billion dollar acquisition failures at NSA and the Agency’s controversial, possibly illegal surveillance practices, Congress […]
by Gregory Donovan (ITF) on February 16, 2008 at 6:48 pm · Filed under cyberenviro
Lawrence Lessig is the originator of Creative Commons and the author of Free Culture, Code 2.0 and the The Future of Ideas. An online campaign has been setup to encourage him to run for the congressional seat vacated by Rep. Tom Lantos (who recently passed away) in California. Having a public intellectual like Lessig in […]
by Gregory Donovan (ITF) on February 14, 2008 at 12:40 pm · Filed under cyberenviro
via Wired: Senate Approves Telco Amnesty, Legalizes Bush’s Secret Spy Program.
by Gregory Donovan (ITF) on January 29, 2008 at 3:05 pm · Filed under cyberenviro
Here is a clear case of astroturfing… I noticed the following ad on HuffingtonPost yesterday (01.28.08) promoting “draftbloomberg.com.” Draftbloomberg.com (formerly Unity08.com) has been setup to encourage people to petition Michael Bloomberg to run for president as an Independent. The ad states 5,237 signatures…
Meanwhile the web site only lists 3,719 signatures. Bloomberg’s broadcasting of support appears […]
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