Dick Sblog

The International Science Grid This Week (iSCTW) sounds like an esoteric publication for grid computing geeks. In fact its offers fascinating insights into the ways in which new computing infrastructures and applications are being brought to bear on a wide range of problems. This week’s iGSTW carries a piece about ‘citizen cyberspace‘, about how, with [...]

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Jorge Luis Borges wrote, “there is nothing written that has not been written before”. I’ve just had an illustration of this in a newsletter from Futurelab. It describes one of their programmes, Digital Participation, which “is designed to devise, pilot and review practical classroom approaches that can support children to create as well as communicate [...]

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