January 2012
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““Wherever you go, go with all your heart.”
— Confucius
slight edit by me:...”
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“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do...”
28 Ways to Stop Complicating Your Life →
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“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.
Because if you are making...”
– http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2011/12/my-new-year-wish.html (via neil-gaiman)
December 2011
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serendipity at work: I'm giving away a book to you
It’s Winter officially and it’s an ideal time to read a book in a cozy warm place. I want to test how serendipity works in all my social networks and test how dynamics with the situation I’ll describe will unfold. I want to give away a book, the one for winter reading, an interesting novel (meta novel I’d like to say) by Italo Calvino, If On a Winters Night a Traveller. I...
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A guide what to buy your favourite Internet...
Inspired by the Thesis Whisperer”s post on What to buy your favourite PhD student for Christmas, here is my version of What to buy your favourite not only PhD student but your favourite Internet researcher, your favourite female friend writer. Since Christmas and New Year is almost there and then comes my birthday by the end of January, here’s the list of things you can keep in mind. I...
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random pearls of wisdom or some tiny bytes from...
~ If others don’t believe in you, its their problem of who they are, don’t stop believing in yourself. ~ A great relationship isn’t when a perfect couple comes together, but an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.
~ If nothing is going right then go left.
~Judging a person does not define who they are, it defines who you are.
~ Your “flaws” are the greatest...
November 2011
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The Internet and Social inequality: social media... →
I have been very busy in the last few weeks, writing a book chapter for the great edition on the Internet and digital inequalities in International perspective including International contributors,…
October 2011
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The Fierce Imagination of Haruki Murakami
Murakami sold his jazz club in order to devote himself, full time, to writing.
“Full time,” for Murakami, means something different from what it does for most people. For 30 years now, he has lived a monkishly regimented life, each facet of which has been precisely engineered to help him produce his work. He runs or swims long distances almost every day, eats a healthful diet, goes to bed...
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September 2011
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How do you keep a relationship working? →
via theangrytherapist:
Imagine that your relationship is an engine. And just because you have one doesn’t mean it’s going anywhere. So in order for this engine to move, the pistons need to be pumping. Four pistons of a relationship, trust, communication, chemistry, and connection. Trust is not a given. It has to constantly be earned. We do this by building a safe container for the other...
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August 2011
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Lovely notebooks and pens for writers and thinkers
I simply love the minimalism, clean lines and the simplicity of any notebooks for writing and thoughts/notes taking, including Moleskine notebooks and pens.
Moleskine roll pen is updated pronto on my Amazon Xmas and Birthday Wishlist.
Inspire via Simple+Pretty
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You should date a woman who writes.
The woman who writes short stories, novel/book chapters, findings, dissertation, observations, thoughts, ideas, columns, then publish them and let others read; in one, two or several languages is the woman who writes literature of linear and non linear discourse. Under the kiwi tree, at the old writing table from the communist era, on her laps, in a bed, in the plane, train. The woman who writes...
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non-verbal communication and question du jour
I wish i had an ability to distinguish when someone (via electronic medium, email, no voice just words) asks me how i am: is it a polite small talk question or he really wants to know how i really am, i.e. how i feel?
According to dr. Albert Mehrabian, 55% of face-to-face communication comes through non-verbal, 38% tone of voice and only 8% are words. Now you know why I cannot see, hear or decode...
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summer mornings
My favourite August morning activity, when the days and nights are hot, is right upon waking up to walk out in the garden in my night gown to the fig tree (actually there are two of them), and pick up the fresh figs and eat them while standing under the shadow of the tree.
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The Balkans: Over Half of the Population Uses the... →
Gave a short overview of the recent Internet stats study in Balkans. As I wrote in the Global Voices article, it would be also interesting to see age distribution among users and other relevant demographics, as well as the analysis of online social interactions on other Internet services and social media sites.
Statistical and educational institutions in each of the Balkan countries could...
July 2011
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April 2011
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e-postcard from Tokyo
This morning I got an email with lovely photo of Mt Fuji from my Japanese friend. Seems that life around Tokyo is calm, but everyone worries about Fikushima power plant.
Hi, my dear, Dana!Thank you so much for your warm caring about me and Japan. There’re no kind of panic in Tokyo. We live as usual. Ofcorse, there’re many differences compared to before the earthquake. We’re...
February 2011
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January 2011
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December 2010
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Gratitude 2010
I made a random short notes of people, events (withdrawn from my memory and Moleskine pocket notebook) that I am grateful for. It’s quite long, I guess I was lucky in 2010, and hoping that 2011 will be even better, as I need material for next December. Maybe you’ll recognize yourself in here. I’m grateful:
- for the first train home on January 3rd from Newcastle to Birmingham...
“Dear xyz journalists/media houses: if you want my opinion on Wikileaks, web activism, Facebook and else, please first make an appointment for the statement, lecture, conference talk, or an interview. Use my email indicated at www.danicar.org. The fact that you happen to have my mobile phone number, doesn’t mean that you can call me any time you like or need. Calling someone in the...
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Alone together
Had a poetic moment (short break from protocol design) and wrote a poem (also published on Diaspora, and MySpace if anyone is still using it) inspired by humans, technology and the (lack of) interaction.
Alone together*: Our friendship
Our friendship is limited by interwebs,
wires and cables crawling around the earth and our heads
setting us apart when I need you to be my friend,...
November 2010
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lauradesign asked: Why are you doing a PhD?
merlynaya asked: Say, I'm on Tumblr too. Different feel than my usual blog. I use Merlyn Aya as my pseudonymous. Gives me more freedom. Do you know that?
UPGRADING THE EXISTING ECO-NETWORKS
Check out on the wiki Session 26 at ScienceOnline2011. Who can participate: scientists, IT folks, ecologists, environmental/climate/green activists/organizations world wide, artists, educators, social media practitioners, everyone interested in below described. Governm.institutions and NGO’s world wide are more than welcome to join us, partcipate and support. Feel free to contact me (danica...
mysterious case of DR’s HDD: breathe and reboot →
Do you remember the stories when computer engineer advices you to store all the important files on the partition D, and the partition C is for the Program files? Well, forget about it. The hard drive…
October 2010
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Sharing is caring: Open Access – Learn and... →
“Open Access” to information [and knowledge, D.R.]– the free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research, and the right to use and re-use those results as you need – has the power…
from Ray Monk's biography of Wittgenstein
Dear Mrs Stewart,
I must apologise for an untruth I told you today in Miss Pate’s office. I said that I had seen Mrs Thomson recently in Birmingham; and only when I came home this evening it occurred to me that this wasn’t true at all. I stayed with the Bachtin’s a few weeks ago in Birmingham and I tried to see Mrs Thomson and we had a talk on the phone; but I wasn’t...
September 2010
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Better on Facebook Than in the Streets →
The new school year in Serbia is about to start, and local newspapers are filled with techno anti-utopian articles on the bad effects of the Internet and social networks. A survey on the use of…
August 2010
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building Media, Communications, Cyberculture, Sociology, Information science and Knowledge management, Politics, Philosophy, and Web material-related library. Bookshelves not installed yet, interior schedule is ON. Precious books and magazines brought world wide in boxes #studio #books #library
Global Voices: Digital School Project in Serbia →
In my latest article for Global Voices I wrote about Digital School, a state-funded project that would allow to set up digital classrooms in Serbia’s primary schools. I’ve discussed some of the…
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question du nuit
It is something I asked my friend Simon this evening: what to do with 100s of Facebook friend requests from people I don’t know, but we have 10-30-50 contacts in common, for example? They know me, I dont know them. Ideas?
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carbonara
It’s time to revive my old Tumblr account since I haven’t blogged here for more than a year. And today when I tweeted that I’m cooking carbonara for the very first time, you asked both on Twitter and email to post the recipe, and thought that this my old Tumblr is perfect place for it as it is less formal than Digital Serendipities blog.
This is how I cooked today pasta, Italian...
May 2009
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some random thoughts on the future of KM, information systems and Social web tools/software #Twitter #SNS #KM http://ping.fm/QVMGn
April 2009
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going tonight on the concert of Marianne Faithfull & Hudson Shad Quartet & Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. w00t! http://ping.fm/nSiFb
some personal reflections on Twitter’s role in covering the #earthquakes in #Italy http://ping.fm/MSzda
March 2009
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// beyond the twitter: act of kindness of italian twitterati http://ping.fm/AFRK6
my first Roman blog post - finally first impressions http://ping.fm/9CAm8