Participation Inequality: Lurkers vs. Contributors in Internet Communities (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
Participation Inequality: Lurkers vs. Contributors in Internet Communities (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox): All large-scale, multi-user communities and online social networks that rely on users to contribute content or build services share one property: most users don’t participate very much. Often, they simply lurk in the background. In contrast, a tiny minority of users usually accounts for […]
Read MoreWhy Wiki? free online video course
Why Wiki? free online video course: The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries has made a free online video course available called Why Wiki?. Save this post to any one of these social bookmarking services: — Why wiki… indeed.
Read MoreCar loans help the poor get to work – Yahoo! News
Car loans help the poor get to work – Yahoo! News: Advocates say Ways to Work, which has underwritten $36 million in loans to 24,000 families since it began as a small program in Minnesota in 1984, is part of a new model for social service programs, one that delivers human services aimed at economic […]
Read MoreDeleuze on Schools
One can envisage education becoming less and less a closed site differentiated form the workplace as another closed site, but both disappear and giving way to frightful continual training, to continual monitoring of worker-schoolkids or bureaucrat-students. They try to present this as a reform of the school system, but it’s really its dismantling. negotiations 174
Read MoreShadows of War
The world is most often presented, in academic text, popular media, and fiction, as a world of places. We are animate beings in a world of objects arranged in a locale. Our geographies have mountains and rivers and landmarks; our civilizations have capitals and governing offices and schools marked on maps; our businesses have boundings […]
Read MoreSchool web sites fail accessibility test
School web sites fail accessibility test: Eighty-six percent of the nation’s top universities have web sites that do not comply with standards designed to make the internet more accessible to persons with disabilities, according to a recent survey. Conducted… —— i bet it is a higher percentage for local libraries.
Read MoreThe Literacy Project
The Literacy Project: A resource for teachers, literacy organisations and anyone interested in reading and education, created in collaboration with LitCam, Google, and UNESCO’s Institute for Lifelong Learning. ——- Google’s literacy push.
Read MoreTesting the Invisible College of Physics
Print: British sociologist Harry Collins asked a scientist who specializes in gravitational waves to answer seven questions about the physics of these waves. Collins, who has made an amateur study of this field for more than 30 years but has never actually practiced it, also answered the questions himself. Then he submitted both sets of […]
Read MoreArticle: Google print outshines the European Digital Library
Article: Google print outshines the European Digital Library: In talking about the long road to creating the European Digital Library, this stood out to me: In 2010, the European Digital Library should have 6 million e-books available, a much lower figure than that given by Google for the same year: 15 million. Both numbers are […]
Read MoreArticle: Google print outshines the European Digital Library
Article: Google print outshines the European Digital Library: In talking about the long road to creating the European Digital Library, this stood out to me: In 2010, the European Digital Library should have 6 million e-books available, a much lower figure than that given by Google for the same year: 15 million. Both numbers are […]
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