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So my Facebook friends, and my other friends, and the people in the cubicles next to me, and, well, anyone who has ever heard me speak knows that I’m not a big fan of the Blackboard learning management system. Despite having some good interactions over email with Karen Gage and the group of people responsible [...]
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On Monday, a new thread appeared on the unfiction forums pointing out a trailhead for a new game that seems to be linked to the Fox series Dollhouse. Given the percentage of librarians who are big damn fans of Joss Whedon + my obvious fascination with Alternate Reality Games the odds were very good that [...]
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all the time. That’s because Kate and I are deep in preparation for our Loex of the West talk and it’s hard to think about anything else. A few things that have come out of my work in the last few days. This video at Kairos – This is Scholarship – This video cuts across [...]
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This presentation from last week’s JSTOR Annual Publishers Meeting, examining how digital access to information has affected scholars’ research patterns, is very interesting. Meredith Quinn presented some research from Ithaka that looks at some of those disciplinary differences in research practice that I think most of us intuitively feel are there. What a difference a [...]
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From this — The Future of Online Music: Why Closed Platforms Will Fail – Alternatively, the disappearance of an open platform could spell the end of DRM technology altogether, at least for digital music. Since I believe strongly that the market in the end must and will be based on interoperable digital formats, if DRM [...]
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So I’ve been spending a lot of time looking at different models for scholarly publishing preparing for this presentation, and what always happens happened – the themes start showing up everywhere. I went to visit the Top Shelf comic site the other day and found this — anticipation-building countdown. Intriguing! Investigation led to this story [...]
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well, not really bad metadata. More like the wrong metadata. Dipity lets you build interactive timelines. You can pull in all kinds of information sources — video, text, images — and display them in a nice, linear timeline. The interface is easy to navigate. Each item in the timeline can be viewed within the timeline, [...]
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at least in my head. My head is tired, though, from speaking at this and at this. So I may not be making any sense. Last week before I got sucked into preparing stuff I had a brief exchange about peer review with John Daly on the K4D blog and he said something that resonated [...]
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So back in this post, I explained why one reason that I don’t like EBSCO’s new visual search is that they didn’t preserve the fun factor of the old interface. And I stand by that. So I was intrigued when I saw this in my feeds yesterday. This is Spectra, part of msnbc’s Newsware suite [...]
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There’s an interesting conversation going on at Historiann’s blog about peer review. It’s especially interesting to librarians I think as a peek behind the curtain of academic publishing – at least a glimpse of what it’s like in certain disciplines. I have always wondered how closely my experiences writing in the peer-reviewed library science literature [...]
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