Thomson ISI to Track Web-Based Scholarship with NEC’s CiteSeer
This is very interesting: "With the Open Access movement bringing Web-based scholarship to increased prominence, leading A&I services that have long provided the access tools to identify scholarship face new challenges. More...
Learning in Communities
The latest in my series of articles for the Australian Flexible Learning Community, in this item I look at the question of why we want online learning communities and what makes these communities work. More...
Report Raises Questions About Fighting Online Piracy
It's a fairly basic article, but it signals a change on the part of at least some economists regarding strong copyright protection. "The ideas of copy-left, or of a more liberal regime of copyright, are receiving wider and wider support," said Debora L. Spar, a professor at Harvard Business School. More...
FOAF Myers Briggs Addition
This has been around for a while, but it's worth noting: the FOAF (Friend of a Friend) specification supports Myers Briggs Type Indicators. More...
CC-enhanced Search Engine
Another step in the right direction (you almost think we'll get there some day): a search engine that indexes only Creative Commons licensed pages. Of course, this is only a step - such a search engine would not be useful for many purposed; copyright information needs, in the long run, to define a search field or a type of search, not a whole search engine. More...
The Problems With Training (and What to Do About It)
As the author asserts, "Mirroring the 7th grade classroom and the freshman college 101 lecture hall will serve only to copy their mediocrity." Too true. But what to do about it? This essay contains a number of good suggestions, ranging from the ever popular 99-second talks to the importance of food, round tables, and varied activities. More...
Canadian Language and Literacy Research Network
The Canadian Language and Literacy Research Network (CLLRNet) has launched a new website. The purpose of CLLRNet "is to generate, integrate and disseminate bias-free scientific research and knowledge that is focused on improving and sustaining children's language and literacy development in Canada." Founded with a 4-year, $14.2-million grant from the Network of Centres of Excellence (NCE) program, the network involves more than a hundred researchers across Canada. More...
Opportunity Rover Finds Strong Evidence Meridiani Planum Was Wet
For the last two years, I have very proudly had a link on my home page saying my name will go to Mars. Who cares if it's the "Space Kids" site? Anyhow, I was a bit disappointed when I signed up, because I was so far down the list my name would not be on the first Mars Rover, "Spirit", but on the second, "Opportunity". More...
The Nuclear Weapon of Digital Rights Law
The legal system is intended to balance the interests of people against each other. Protections for one person come at the cost of liberties for another, ownership of property for one person comes at the cost of need for another. When these balances are tipped too far to one direction or the other, the inherent fairness expected and demanded of law is lost, and it is not surprising when people abandon their faith in it, for justice, from their perspective, is to be found only outside its domains. More...
Publishers Steamed by US Ban
This issue, which has been simmering on the IEEE and open publishing lists for several months now, has broken out into the mainstream media where it is generating some heat under U.S. policy makers. More...
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