Depublishing: Editorial Policies for Blogs. Last November, I posted on Kairosnews a link to Dennis Jerz's Literacy Weblog post regarding Blood's blogging ethics. Pretty tame discussion then, but if you've been following the discussion about depublishing (see Ten Reasons Why) then you know why this is an issue worth discussing further (and are probably not […]

tax cuts for everyone. A University, far away. Tens of thousands of U.S. students will lose most or all of their financial aid. [MetaFilter] nothing new here, those that do not vote, do not get benefits, and by voting i mean give 10000 minimum to the victors campaign.

And now, they'll be visiting all of you for reading this. FBI questions man for reading a critique of Fox News. Marc Shultz, a freelance Atlanta writer was reading a print out of this article in a coffee shop when another patron reading over his shoulder apparently found the content seditious enough to deserve a […]

the dog ate mother's toes. Dave Barry posts a letter in his weblog encouraging users to submit poems to poetry.com containing the phrase “the dog ate mother's toes” under the penname of Freemont. Hilarity Ensues. [MetaFilter] this is great stuff

The Open Society Institute (OSI) has just released …. The Open Society Institute (OSI) has just released revised and updated versions of its two business planning guides for open-access journals. One guide is for launching new open-access journals (also in PDF), and the other is for converting conventional journals to open access (also in PDF). […]

World Internet Conference.  ”M” International Conference of World Internet Project 16th – 19th July 2003 at Oxford University. Social scientists representing 75 percent of the world's Internet users will be at the Oxford Internet Institute to compare Internet use and non-use on five continents. The participants are linked together in the World Internet Project (WIP: http://www.worldinternetproject.net/); […]

Pffft to PDF. PDF: Unfit for Human Consumption: Users get lost inside PDF files, which are typically big, linear text blobs that are optimized for print and unpleasant to read and navigate online. PDF is good for printing, but that's it. Don't use it for online presentation. I couldn't agree more. [Electric Venom] hmm, i […]

Adaptive Path: The Nine Pillars of Successful Web Teams. Jesse James Garrett. Formal titles, job descriptions, and reporting structures can vary widely. But the best teams I've encountered have one important thing in common: their team structure and processes cover a full range of distinct competencies necessary for success. [Tomalak's Realm] this is an interesting […]

Put the Supremes on Your iPod. Our friends at OYEZ.org have now made it ridiculously easy to download MP3s of classic U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments for free under a Creative Commons license. Here's a list of the first wave of Supreme Court recordings that OYEZ has embedded with license information. Download (warning: big) a […]

if you think you know whats going on online, but aren't on nettime or at least watching it, you might want to reconsider your self-evaluation. likewise, if you haven't seen the association of internet researchers, you are might want to rethink things. aoir check out this years conference, its great fun and great people.