Tag Archives: Scholarly Communication

Audio blogging about edublogging

By alex | Published: 4/21/2005
I’m not sure if this is strictly public, but Google thinks it is, so… Trebor Sholz asked me to talk a little about blogs and education as part of the Share, Share Widely conference I blogged about earlier. Looks like some interesting people are going, I’m really sorry I can’t attend. As if I weren’t […]
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Tending our garden

By alex | Published: 4/19/2005
This is the concluding bit from a short essay I just wrote. I’m demoralized lately about academia in general, but I hope it doesn’t show here… If social informatics is a gathering storm, if there are a large number of people who do work within the area and are willing to build the field, we […]
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Grads Blogging

By alex | Published: 4/18/2005
Derek Mueller has a podcast up of a recent conference presentation on weblogs and emergence, in which he explains why graduate students should blog. And while we are on the subject, Kevin Lim has been blogging for a while now, but lately he has really kicked into overdrive, and with good effect. His is now […]
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Fake science

By alex | Published: 4/15/2005
One of the standard features of rumors is that they tend to amplify certain parts of a story and ignore others, so that as the story gets passed from person to person, it ends up being shaped, and often shaped into a meme. Thus when three grad students submitted a computer generated paper to a […]
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