Kepler – A Digital Library for Individuals “The purpose of Kepler is to give any user the ability to easily self-archive publications by means of an “archivelet”: a self-contained, self-installing software system that functions as an Open Archives Initiative data provider. Kepler archivelets are designed to be easy to install, use and maintain. Kepler is […]

U.S. Universities Competing to Build Biohazard Level 4 Labs [Disinformation] mmmm, coming to a university near you, a new place for radical students to injure themselves and others. up go the armed guards, i suppose.

On-line scientific publications and blogs. Recent editorial of Information Research journal (bold is mine): A couple of issues ago I asked readers whether or not they knew of any work on the 'half-life' of electronic journal papers versus that of print journal papers. I received a helpful e-mail message pointing me to Steve Lawrence's paper in Nature […]

Booktalk “In constructing allconsuming.net, Erik has deliberately left software hooks and information bait dangling from the site, ready for us to connect and consume. Moreover, he encourages us to do so, telling us to “Use [his] XML” and try out his SOAP interface. So I did. While allconsuming.net can send you book reading recommendations (by […]

NEEEERD! – The Streak Of Anti-Intellectualism In Colleges. Plastic::Work::School: “Some college students and faculty are fretting over an 'anti-intellectual thread' running through college.” [Plastic: Most Recent] i think this is occuring more and more. I think it is in part symptomatic of a growing professionalization and profitization of the goals of higher education students.

Distributed KM. Italian research project: enabling distributed and autonomous management of knowledge The aim of this project is to develop research in information technology and software tools that support the Distributed and Autonomous Management of Knowledge. The goal will be achieved by: structuring knowledge in different “contexts”, that allow each different organization component to create, use […]

uiweb.com: How to run a design critique. In the early and middle phases of a project, teams need a way to understand and explore the current direction of the design. The challenge is to create the openness needed for good ideas to surface, while simultaneously cultivating the feedback and criticism necessary to resolve open issues. […]

Hate your TA? Now you have a home.. When Kyle's teachers got too liberal, Kyle's mom launched this Web site I laughed, I cried upon reading the Union-Trib article on student discontent with TAs at UCSD and around the country. Man, if I had a nickel for every time I heard, “Yes, I know that […]

Textfiles.com. Textfiles.com: Before the Web, before Google, we scoured Fidonet, absorbing the forbidden fruits of anarchy, occult and a lot of bad fiction. For better or worse, TEXTFILES are relics of that age. [MetaFilter] they aren't really artifacts of that age, they are artifacts of our age.

Technology anthropologists. Jim McGee in Doing anthropology cites Ernie the Attorney's post  about technology anthropologists Bold was math's i'm going to say that the more i think about this, i'm not sure that titles matter as practice, and the practice is ethnography.