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Tuesday, 22 August 2006 |
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Lots of interesting, if unrelated, activities happening in the blogosphere at the moment so it seems suitable in the dog days of summer to offer a round-up.
- In another in a long line of current attempts to quantify and statistically model informal content on the Internet, the Homeland Security department in the US has awarded Rutgers University a grant to identify patterns and relationships in public information sources to "better detect possible terrorist activity", presumably in blogs. According to Fred Roberts, director of Rutgers’ Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science: "One of the goals of the consortium will be to develop real-time streaming algorithms to track information and detect patterns and relationships even among writers who try to hide their identities".
- The debate over the origin of an Al Gore spoof video on the Internet offers more grist for the mill that public relations firms and communication specialists are trying to appear "amateur" on the net to make a point with the potential for viral spread. It seems the masses are more inclined to take amateur political statements as credible so the professionals are trying to appear as anonymous little guys with a creative, if unprofessional, point to make.
- Finally universities are getting fed up with getting relatively ranked and are responding to such attempts by refusing to participate in studies: "To put it another way, yet another academic ranking exercise has itself been ranked - and found wanting. Everything academic gets ranked these days, so it seems natural that some of these international exercises should themselves fall under scrutiny."
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Blogging for education survey |
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Tuesday, 08 August 2006 |
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The University of Arizona’s Learning Technologies Center (LTC) collects feedback and experiences from a year of deploying blogs into formal and informal learning environments.
"The applications are as varied as the disciplines adopting blogging. Faculty have introduced blogging to: promote peer review, foster student-to-student, student-to-faculty, and faculty-to-student interaction; discuss course readings; promote discussion and public comment; address class concerns; extend learning beyond the classroom; and develop writing skills because it encourages students to reflect on what they compose."
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Tuesday, 25 July 2006 |
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The Chronicle of Higher Education profiles the experiences of an academic shaping up a book draft online with the help of hundreds of online consultants providing feedback on strengths and weaknesses of the text.
Does the use of blogs and wikis ease or enhance the struggle of authors driving towards publication? Read the thoughts of McKenzie Wark, professor of media and cultural studies at New School University as he undergoes this process for his new book GAM3R 7H3ORY.
Also read the thoughts of Kathleen Fitzpatrick in a guest article for the Valve on the future of academic publishing and tenure. Fitzpatrick calls for new forms of scholarly ouput that suit the actual requirements of academia in an age of digital media:
"If this is how we consume research in the humanities—read the book’s introduction for the overall argument; read the chapter that most clearly applies to our own questions for the detailed analysis—then is the production of the book itself no more than a vanity?" |
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