Peace X Peace
Through the Communication Initiative I learned of Peace X Peace, “pronounced peace by peace.” They are DC-based and provide a “global network [to] connect individuals and circles of women everywhere in the world, through the Internet, for spirited conversation and mutual support.” It looks like they primarily use video, radio and email to develop women’s leadership skills. On their website they have a preview of a film they’ve made that followed women leaders in Argentina, Afghanistan, Burundi and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Patricia Smith Melton founded Peace X Peace with her husband, Bill Melton, who is a businessman with Global Internet Ventures and was part of America Online.
And, just to contemplate how deep a hole we are in, take a look at this hilarious video about the Bush Administration’s misdeeds: http://blip.tv/file/520347
ECHO Exploring and Collecting History Online
2008 is off to a good start: The Center for History and New Media at George Mason University has just (re)launched its ECHO project–Exploring and Collecting History Online. Here’s what they say about it: “a directory to 5,000+ websites concerning the history of science, technology, and industry.” It is searchable or browsable by category, and each website is annotated and occasionally reviewed. I searched one category, “computers and information technology” for RACE and found a lot of hits, including one called RaceSci out of MIT: “a resource for scholars and students interested in the history of “race” in science, medicine, and technology. RaceSci is dedicated to encouraging critical, anti-racist and interdisciplinary approaches to our understanding of the production and uses of “race” as a concept within the history of science. Instead of assuming race as a natural category that science then uncovers, this site assembles scholarly works that look at how cultural processes of racialization have profoundly shaped knowledge about humanness, health, and even our understanding of “nature” itself.” The website sounded useful, but I couldn’t get there from ECHO.
I searched WOMEN and came across oral histories by suffrage activists at Berkeley’s Bancroft Library (although the link was broken.) When I searched ARCHITECTURE, I only got four pages of hits, including hits that referred to computer architecture. Still it looks like Happy Hunting.
