Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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> Frances Pinter on the (Academic) Value of Sharing
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> | So much of academic output is now available on the web, and when you
> | talk to academics they are not 100 percent happy with how difficult it
> | is becoming to find their works. They are looking for tools; a digital
> | means of selecting, filtering, and ranking the materials they are using
> | and recommending.
Interesting. In the first days of the web, there was no google and everyone
had links recommending other works and related material.
The high quality ones were something you recommend to others.
That scene seems to be going down hill with blogs, wikis and whatever else
taking its place.
May be the researchers should start keeping their own home pages
and links to relevant works instead of relying on tools like search engines
because they are the experts and know better than anyone else their
own subject and what is important and what is unimportant.
> | We are actually in a period of transition where we are
> | still relying on the old, but wanting to experiment with the new. People
> | like myself who spend a lot of time with the open access crowd can kind
> | of forget there are a lot of academics who arenât so vocal, who are
> | primarily interested in producing their content, getting materials in
> | front of their students, and getting their promotion and their
> | recognition for work that they produce.
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> http://www.good.is/post/frances-pinter-on-the-academic-value-of-sharing/
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> 'Bloggers' vs 'Audience' is over? or, Will the word 'blogger' disappear?
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> | Blog is just one of many technical ways to convey information. I think
> | the phrase "Blogger Jones" will go away. But sometimes it is important
> | to state how one got the information. So, one may say "Jones blogged
> | it", or "I got this from Sally via e-mail", or "as Neal wrote in his
> | 1996 book", or "Anne told me over dinner last night", or "in Jim's op-ed
> | in WaPo yesterday", or "via Dave on Twitter", or "Elizabeth texted me",
> | or "Bill posted on Facebook", or "Chris told me over the phone a minute
> | ago". All of those media channels are useful for various purposes.
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> http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/08/bloggers_vs_audience_is_over_o.php
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> Recent:
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> Red Hat's POSSE introduces academics to FOSS
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> | Recently, five college professors spent an intense five days with Red
> | Hat employees and other members of the free and open source software
> | (FOSS) community. Red Hat called the experience POSSE (Professors' Open
> | Source Summer Experience). The goal of the week was to show how FOSS
> | could be used in post-secondary education, and to create a community to
> | further the goal.
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> http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/Online/Features/Red-Hat-s-POSSE-
introduces-academics-to-FOSS
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> Red Hat educates profs
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> | Red Hat is sowing the seeds of open source software development among
> | college professors.
> |
> | This week a fourth-floor meeting room at the company's Centennial Campus
> | headquarters in Raleigh is the site of a boot camp for faculty from a
> | half-dozen universities, including N.C. Central and Elon. It's a
> | prototype for a program whose ultimate goal is to immerse computer
> | science students in real-world open-source development projects.
> |
> | [...]
> |
> | Red Hat, which is poised to join the Standard & Poor's 500 index after
> | the market closes today, makes its money by bundling Linux with various
> | levels of support services.
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> http://www.newsobserver.com/business/story/1619353.html
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