As mass surveillance by companies and government increases, digital privacy becomes more and more important. Information professionals have many skills that can contribute to educating and informing citizens about the importance of intellectual freedom.

I guess we once thought of the internet as having some sort of liberating potential, but today it’s pretty clear that, although we can’t live without it, it’s a pretty horrible place (especially if you’re not a straight white guy). When was the last time you saw a woman being harassed by an egg-man on Twitter, and how can we make sure it stops happening?

It’s just strange that people disagree so much about this.

Because BeeGees asked it in 1977, and Calvin Harris is asking the same question in 2015.

We should all ask ourselves this question, and be spurred into passionately acting on the answer. Life on earth—and not just human life—depends on it. Literally your and our collective future is at stake.

I struggle with the balance between activities that aren’t enjoyable in the short-term but promise a payoff. While the payoff can be intense, it’s usually short-lived. Why not spend the whole time being generally content, rather than chasing highs?

Questions drive inquiry, which is the way to critically engage with contested ideas.

Life long learning challenges premises and stimulates awareness of difference, whilst negating ignorance.

I have always found it to be a most poignant song/question and I wanted to ask it again in a milieu where it would be wrestled with a tad. With the 24 hour news cycle constantly informing us yet increasingly we have no clue as to what is really going on in the world.
is viewing events the best way for us to understand the world? Or should we be looking deeper?

New parent myself – but more importantly in light of the Syrian refugees placing their children in scary waters in the hope of providing their children a better life in Europe.

Most of today’s global problems originate in the competitive foundation of the current economic, political paradigm. We will never realise humanity’s highest goals unless we learn to start from a different place in thinking about the “system” we live within.