Tag Archives: Scholarly Communication

UC @ Buffalo

By alex | Published: 11/6/2005
Dennis Waskul, the author of net.seXXX dropped me an email to chat about my review in the most recent issue of New Media & Society. He was happy with the review, and gave me some of the back story on the book. As an aside, he said I should check out the published version when […]
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Sometimes signal, sometimes noise.

By alex | Published: 10/13/2005
The Chronicle of Higher Ed has a history of writing things about blogs that seem to stick in the craw of scholarly bloggers. Luckily Henry Farrell managed to slip something in that not only makes sense, but is actually bordering on the manifesto. (And no, I don’t like it just because he managed to make […]
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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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Columbia Course on Social Software

By alex | Published: 9/10/2005
Interesting syllabus for a course at Columbia’s Communication, Computing, and Technology in Education (found via weblogg-ed). They are also aggregating content, through the del.icio.us tag “ccte”. It’s not clear to me if they are also using del.icio.us to tag their own blog entries, though that would be a pretty effective way to go about things. […]
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