A Role for SPARC in Freeing the Refereed Literature
Two years ago, Stevan Harnad proposed that, instead of trying to replicate, in a low cost fashion, the existing system of online journals and subscriptions, we should scrap the system and turn to a form of self publishing. More...
Personal Media and the Human Community
Drawing from his own experiences with a project called the Star Festival, linguistics professor Shigeru Miyagawa engages new media from the point of view of rejoining humanism and technology. In mass media, he argues, there is a clear demarcation between producer and consumer. More...
Princeton Says a Few Students Had Access to Yale Web Site
Princeton University says blame the students. Give me a break. More...
Schools May Get to Use Pirated Software
A Malaysian official says schools in that nation may be allowed to continue using pirated software. More...
Ethical Hacker Faces War Driving Charges
It is apparently illegal to test public wireless networks for security flaws, even if you're a security expert. Seems to me there is a big flaw in this legislation, one that encourages people to keep wuiet about security flaws. More...
In a Do-it-Yourself World, Who Needs Librarians?
Good article that examines the role of the librarian in a world where everybody can search for resources online. The upshot of the article is that, since searching for online materials remains difficult to do well, there is a continuing role for librarians. Yes... but. It's still early days. More...
The Processed Book
Nice draft version of an essay posted for comment looking at diferent ways to think of online books. I really like the approach as the author considers the book as portal, the book as self-referencing text, the book as platform, the book as machine component, and the book as network node. More...
eBusiness in Education: Case Studies on the Effective Use of Electronic Business in the Education Sector
From time to time I suggest in this newsletter that there is a link between e-business and e-learning. Not that anybody doubts that, I suppose, but the connection between the two is drawn in rigorous detail in this comprehensive report on the use of e-business practices by leading educational institutions in Australia and around the world. More...
Jay Cross trolled this nifty little site in support of Allison Rossett's ASTD eLearning Handbook. Looks like a Jeopardy game (no questions, though, just answers - which is what I suppose people want). More...
What Will it Take for E-learning to Reach Potential Market Size?
Heh. This little list is exactly what e-learning vendors are not doing. What will it take. More...
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