Canadian Newspaper Association and the Public Journalism Network (http://www.pjnet.org) has organized an afternoon-long workshop which I'll be moderating. We'll be talking about blogging and how it can inform ideas about participatory and public journalism. Participants are to include Dan Gillmor, Jeff Jarvis, Rebecca MacKinnon and Jay Rosen. (Links to their blogs are at my blog: […]

46,000 take eArmyU courses online – Courtney Hickson, Army News Service. More than 46,000 Soldiers have been able to continue their education by taking online classes through eArmyU, including many of the Soldiers deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Since its creation in July of 2000, eArmyU has been part of the Army‰¥ús e-lear [Online Learning […]

Microsoft putting their store on “start” menu. Some may consider this an abuse of their dominant position in operating systems, but Joris Evers tells the IDG News Service that Microsoft “is working on a new shopping Web site for software, hardware, and peripherals that it plans to… [

June issue of Against the Grain. The June issue of Against the Grain is now out. This issue is guest-edited by Steve McKinzie and devoted to changes in scholarly communication. Not even the TOC and abstracts are online, at least not yet. Here are the OA-related articles. (Thanks to Charles W. Bailey, Jr.) Steve McKinzie, […]

Jason's old bad audio page!. I found out that an old page of mine from 2000 is still up with all my rough old audio clips of music I've been working on and never finished. [Team Polysynchronous – Just Differently Intelligent – – Just Differently Intelligent –] —- hhehehehehehe

it should be interesting. i walked around a bit in today's daze, tomorrow should be better. here are some bad pictues of the room i'm staying in and its view.

Why Mac OS X is Better: “Almost every serious programmer I know and respect now uses one—and many of them asked me that question before they took the jump and bought a PowerBook.” [x180: journal] [Universal Rule] — this covers several reasons why i use osx.

“Free Culture” Wikipedia. Cory Doctorow sounds the call: Creative Commons is creating a

Birth of Multimedia (A Footnote). In Being Digital Nicholas Negroponte points to the Aspen Project, an early venture of the MIT Media Lab, as the “birth of multimedia.” The 1978 project involved a visual mapping of Aspen, Colorado, using video disk technology to methodically capture… [Matthew G. Kirschenbaum] — i'd say a footnote, just like […]

OA to grey literature. Paola De Castro and Sandra Salinetti, Quality of Grey Literature in the Open Access Era: Privilege and Responsibility, Publishing Research Quality, Spring 2004. Not even an abstract is free online to non-subscribers, at least so far. The rest of the Spring 2004 issue is dedicated to grey literature. (Thanks to Charles […]