“Welcome to Google Village. This is part of a wider project exploring, analyzing, detailing and educating people on the issues to do with the new skills required to communicate now and in the next century. Literacy is no longer the key attribute to desire, work for and acquire in this world of electronic language (where people communicate across the internet). What we require now is Technacy.” Elwyn Jenkins
—What Does it Mean for Internet Dwellers to Live in the Google Village?Technacy Log)
“Google Village” is a play on Marshal McLuhan’s concept of the “Global Village.” I’m glad I found this site. Perhaps fittingly, I stumbled across it while searching Google for new references to my own name.
I’m still teaching journalism and my usual courses, but after 21 years I’ve stepped aside…
A Brazilian couple bought a deforested ranch and spent decades planting over 2 million trees.…
A little over a century ago, the printer T.J. Cobden-Sanderson took it upon himself to surreptitiously dump…
A quick Sunday visit to #fortligonier with my history-loving son.
The choreographer daughter is doing a thing.