When I first started investigating the Internet, I spent what felt like hours every day on Lifehacker and BoingBoing. I downloaded every new program; I signed up for every new service. I didn’t always know what to do with them, but I was so eager to experience novelty. Free novelty! The [...]

Last week I visited Microsoft’s STIC (School Technology Innovation Center) here in Brazil. STIC exists in several different countries and works to stimulate research on the use of technology for educational purposes. While at the center, I attended a lecture by Professor Resnick, from MIT, who works on the Scratch project.
The Scratch project is [...]

My friends will be writers. They will be scholars and journalists and novelists, and they will write about what is important to them; the places they grew up.
We grew up on the internet.
I am lucky to live and learn in a city where the internet, and other digital expanses, are taken seriously. [...]