Cyberinfrastructuralecology

Call it, as the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) does, with post-interstate-highway-systems implications, cyberinfrastructure; or call it cyberecology, which to more biologically oriented ears sounds less annoying: the point is that networked computers both replicate and amplicate the informational structures/ecologies that have emerged without and within the academy over the last 6,000 years (or so). Despite its rather British title, the latest report from the ACLS (which I admit I've only gotten through the first 20 pages of so far), offers many interesting echoes to work and discussions that have gone on in the Kairos community for some time, including those regarding access, leveling, preservation/conservation of information, and the use of leaping hamsters as graphical devices (uhm, well, nix that last phrase).