Category Archives: Research

Blogging in the plural

By alex | Published: 10/28/2005
Most scholarly treatments of blogging begin with a reference to Rebecca Blood’s (2000) history of the idea of blogging, or draw on a standardized definition like the one offered by Jill Walker (2003), which suggests that a weblog is “a frequently updated website consisting of dated entries arranged in reverse chronological order,” and goes on […]
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Yahoo Will Scan Books

By alex | Published: 10/3/2005
Google ran into a snag on their digitization project, but let’s see what a little bit of open content competition will do for the process. The New York Times is running an article on the Open Content Alliance. The interesting difference here is that the OCA is based on many hands making light work. Rather […]
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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 encourage […]
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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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