Another e-disappointment. In a press release “E-learning attracts the 'usual suspects” the UK Economic and Social Research Council reports that new technology hasn't so far changed the way that adults learn … or tempted more people to become 'learners'. Despite Government efforts… [Designing for Civil Society] —- if you think about how they structured this […]

Third Party Presidential Candidates Arrested at “Debate”. You know, stuff like this really gets my blood boiling and re-affirms my interest in voting for good ol' Ralph in this upcoming election. We all know that the “debates” we've been watching on television aren't public, as they should be, but private events. Not only are the […]

Digital Libraries: The Catalyst to Transform Teacher Education – CHERYL MASON BOLICK, et al; AACEJ. Digital libraries are changing the way academic disciplines within universities are conceptualized. The nation‰¥ús scholars are investing their careers and millions of dollars to use technology to rethink the nature of their disciplines. These advances [Online Learning Update] —- probalby […]

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Leading Scientific Publisher Plans to Digitize Content Dating Back 100 Yrs.. From Reuters: “German science publisher Springer Science + Business Media will start in January to put all back issues of… [beSpacific] — great news!

Ubiquitous Network Societies. An international experts workshop on Ubiquitous Network Societies will be held in the March/April 2005 timeframe at ITU headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. The workshop plans to address a number of questions, including: What are the important technical developments that will enable the shift to a ubiquitous communication environment: sensor networks, flexible software […]

POTUS, Batteries Not Included.. Surely, you don't believe that THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES would cheat during a presidential debate? How could Salon suggest such a thing? No. It can't be. There must be another explanation for the rectangular bulge between his shoulder… [Kathryn Cramer] —- probably true…..

Required reading. via Caveat Lector: How did this report ('ware PDF!) manage to come out in 2001 without attracting my attention? [Topic Exchange: Channel 'invisible_adjunct'] —– it is very enlightening.

£140m to put Library of Congress Online At Web2.0 Brewster Kahle pointed out that most books are out of print most of the time and only a tiny proportion are available on bookshop shelves. Scanning the 26 million volumes in the US Library of Congress, the world's biggest library, would cost only $260m (£146m). The […]

Seblogging:. Sebastian Fielder (re)posts on why grad students should blog, quoting Adrian Miles, who writes that they should for…Several off the cuff reasons: contemporary academics need to be networked academics, in all senses of the word; blogs allow you to establish a research identity in the public sphere; blogs allow you … [Alex Halavais] —- […]