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Sunday, 18 June 2006 |
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"Did you ever know the childhood conundrum of working for a penny a day for a month, but doubling your salary each day? If you started this wonderful payscheme on New Year's Day, you would be earning more than $10 million per day on the last day of January ... When an effect is exponential, those last three days mean a lot. We are approaching those last three days in the spread of computing and digital communications." - Nicholas Negroponte, MIT
Even if you are resistant to this kind of techno-utopian discourse it is difficult not to forsee that children growing up online in parts of the world are creating a new generation of online economic, political and cultural forms. Professor Sonia Livingstone at LSE recently completed a thorough report in the UK and a recent article from Science News in the US make really interesting reading. |
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Thursday, 15 June 2006 |
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It is one of the great debates raging in the world of academia at the moment. Is Open Access to scholarly research a good idea? The US is the current key battleground in this debate with the introduction of the bipartisan Federal Research Public Access Act in the Senate. The legislation requires that free, online access to each taxpayer-funded manuscript be available as soon as possible, and no later than 6 months after its publication in a peer-reviewed journal. Electronic copies of the research papers will be stored in databases and made publicly accessible online.
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Monday, 12 June 2006 |
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Claire George from the world's leading citizen reporting site OhmyNews writes about education opportunities at any stage of life and how the WWW and blogging are providing opportunities for independent scholars of any age or pedigree to submit their views into the mix. It is a nice illustration of how a standard criticism (eg. not credible, no checks and balances, no peer-review, etc) of academic blogging can be seen in a different light as a tremendous enabler of diverse views and opinions.
"The golden age will come when lack of formal training and employment do not exclude independent scholars from the resources, funding, and publishing opportunities open to university academics. The key to that golden age is the Internet, and it is already being turned in the lock."
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