Posted on April 27, 2008 by Anne-Marie
and because it’s in Nature Precedings, I can link to it here. John Wilbanks, VP of Science Commons, argues that open access means more than keeping journal costs down, but that access to information is an essential condition for innovation and the creation of new knowledge.
He’s talking about access broadly too - talking about [...]
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Posted on April 25, 2008 by Anne-Marie
Not this post on bias — this post on bias.
I’m having one of those days (actually two of those days in a row now) where everything I read is interesting and I want to talk about it more. So much so that I’m a little overwhelmed and end up not talking about anything. [...]
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Posted on April 23, 2008 by Anne-Marie
So, from Encyclopedia Britannica there’s now Webshare - making it easy for “web publishers” (which means - bloggers?) to access premium encyclopedia content, and to share that content with users. From the project site:
a limited program that enables people who regularly publish content on the Internet—bloggers, webmasters, and writers for the Web—to obtain free subscriptions to Britannica Online, [...]
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Posted on April 21, 2008 by Anne-Marie
…still thinking about last week’s conversation about the corporate media and what that means for information literacy instruction and the broader idea of library users as informed citizens. A couple of things have come across my screen that seem to fit into this conversation.
First, continuing the theme of cool and awesome visualizations is Muckety, [...]
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Posted on April 14, 2008 by Anne-Marie
was said pretty well yesterday at Daily Kos.
Keen tends to claim that the participatory web is destroying traditional media at great cost to our culture. I’ve always thought that the mainstream media has done a great deal to destroy itself. And I don’t think I can say it better than this:
The media — newspapers, radio, [...]
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Posted on April 11, 2008 by Anne-Marie
This is more of a pointing something out post than an in-depth analysis post. I don’t know that I have much to say about this article in yesterday’s L.A. Times, that Jon Wiener didn’t already say in The Nation yesterday evening. But I can’t stop being bothered by it.
No matter how many times [...]
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Posted on April 7, 2008 by Anne-Marie
Nothing, really? Except maybe…
I spent the weekend working on a project Shaun is just starting - a documentary that takes a geographic look at why Portland has become such a central place for comics creators and publishers. He’s had to push his production schedule way up because the Stumptown Comics Fest, which has [...]
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Posted on April 3, 2008 by Anne-Marie
I don’t know that I have anything really insightful to say about this example of scholarship on the read/write web, but when I clicked over to HNN’s Highlights from the 2008 OAH Convention this morning I didn’t have high expectations.
(For non-historians, OAH = Organization of American Historians. This is one of the two main [...]
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