Monthly Archives: September 2005

Congress Abandons WikiConstitution

By alex | Published: 9/29/2005
Apropos our discussion this week, the following newsbrief from my most trusted mainstream news source: WASHINGTON, DC—Congress scrapped the open-source, open-edit, online version of the Constitution Monday, only two months after it went live. “The idea seemed to dovetail perfectly with our tradition of democratic participation,” Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid said. “But when so-called ‘contributors’ [...]
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Margaret

By alex | Published: 9/29/2005
Drat! The dangers of sleeping in. Finally took the dog out late today just to see them striking for today’s filming of Margaret on the street right outside my apartment. I’ll have to remember to catch the film when it comes out to see what I missed. At least the dog didn’t eat Matt Damon [...]
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Ang Lecture

By alex | Published: 9/29/2005
On Monday (10/3), Ang Peng Hwa, Dean of the School of Communication and Information at NTU, will be giving a talk entitled “The UN Working Group on Internet Governance: An Insider’s Perspective.” (Yes, a practice run for his keynote at IR 6.0, I’m sure.) The talk is at 2pm in 545 O’Brian. I would [...]
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Can. Assn. for Info. Sci. CFP

By alex | Published: 9/29/2005
The annual conference for the Canadian Association for Information Science is June 1-3 at York University (Toronto). 500 word proposals are due no later than January 26, 2006. Full call for papers below.
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Blogging / Wiki slides

By alex | Published: 9/28/2005
Presentation in a few minutes on blogging and wikis in teaching. Here is a pdf of the slides: pdf The presentation detailed here is a bit generic. I’ll see if I can capture audio for it as well. Hopefully, we can do something a bit less linear with the process.
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Cancelled Office Hours

By alex | Published: 9/26/2005
Just a quick note that this week I will not be in my office during normal office hours, as I am participating in a workshop. Meant to note this in class, but the week snuck up on me. Always happy to chat via phone, or catch me in the hall sometime on Wednesday.
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