Wide Open Spaces: Wikis, Ready or Not
As promised last week, items from this month's EDUCAUSE Review. "Remember when the Internet was about opening up access to information and breaking down the barriers between content creators and content consumers?" asks Brian Lamb. Here's the answer: wikis. "The signature of a wiki is a link at the bottom of the page reading 'Edit text of this page' or something similar." What's important about wikis is that they change the traditional approach to publishing. More...

Word Circle
Open source online learning community software (in PHP). Pretty basic functionality, allowing instructors to add thoughts, calendar items, discussions and files. That said, the foundation seems firm and the code could easily be expanded to do more. More...

The Devil You Don’t Know: The Unexpected Future of Open Access
Laden with snide remarks and innuendos, this article suggests that advocates of open access are promoting a simplistic solution with no regard to the long term consequences. The long term result of open access journals, argues the author, will be an increase, not a decrease, in the cost of scholarly publication. More...

Open Access Journals: Revenue Beyond Author Charges
The author considers alternatives to the 'author-pays' model of open access journals. Most of the suggestions are tiny steps back toward the traditional model. More...

Open-Media.org
Marc Canter opens the doors a bit on an initiative intened to foster the development of an open content network, an idea dear to my own heart. More...