Weblogg-ed » What Do We Know About Our Kids’ Futures? Really.
What Do We Know About Our Kids’ Futures? Really. [From Weblogg-ed » What Do We Know About Our Kids’ Futures? Really.] —- there is an interesting discussion occurring at weblogg-ed about kids and learning. my addition is that kids have learned to be compartmentalized, not taking intellectual risks, and losing to some extent their curiousities […]
Read MoreSymposium on Comparative Analysis of National Research Systems
The Symposium on Comparative Analysis of National Research Systems was held in UNESCO headquarters in Paris, 16-18 January 2008. it provided a venue of discussion on the basis of Professors’ Johann Mouton and Roland Waast studies on knowledge and research systems of 52 low and middle-income countries. About 130 experts were invited to compare and […]
Read MoreUno the beagle becomes first of his breed to win Westminster — baltimoresun.com
Uno the beagle becomes first of his breed to win Westminster [From Uno the beagle becomes first of his breed to win Westminster — baltimoresun.com] —- we had a sport beagle when i was a kid. abigail… i had a basset hound. i like beagles. I wish people would just stop saying they bark… cause […]
Read MoreCall for Submissions
Please distribute broadly as appropriate-jh Call for Submissions deadline March 1, 2008. Information on Internet Research Degrees and Research Programs. In the International Handbook of Internet Research (Springer, 2008), we intend to include two appendices. This call includes information for each submission. Internet research is broadly conceived in this call, so if you have material […]
Read MoreFifth-Estate-Online
We are pleased to announce that the CDDC is providing web hosting and maintenance for Fifth-Estate-Online. This “International Journal of Radical Mass Media Criticism” publishes peer-reviewed academic articles, as well as commentaries, book reviews, and multimedia galleries. Since its launch in 2005, the journal and its contributors have been examining the role and power of […]
Read MoreA to Z Guide to Political Interference in Science
In recent years, scientists who work for and advise the federal government have seen their work manipulated, suppressed, distorted, while agencies have systematically limited public and policy maker access to critical scientific information. To document this abuse, the Union of Concerned Scientists has created the A to Z Guide to Political Interference in Science. [From […]
Read MoreHandbook for Information Literacy Teaching
Handbook for Information Literacy Teaching Welcome to the Handbook for Information Literacy Teaching (HILT). This Handbook was written by a group of subject librarians at Cardiff University to support their colleagues in Information Services as they developed their information literacy teaching. [From Handbook for Information Literacy Teaching] —- a nice resource for people interested in […]
Read MoreAcademia is a Cult « Bug Girl’s Blog
Academia is a Cult [From Academia is a Cult « Bug Girl’s Blog] — here’s an interesting set of opinions. too bad some things don’t fit… though certainly other parts of the argument illustrate certain parallelisms
Read MoreSprout: The Online WYSIWYG Editor for Flash
A new application called Sprout, launching in private beta at DEMO today, promises to make the creation of Flash applets a whole lot easier. [From Sprout: The Online WYSIWYG Editor for Flash] —- sprout i suppose could enable more people to build flash tools….
Read More123 Meme: Tracing Genres through organizations: a sociocultural approach to information design
Yet another blog meme, courtesy of folks at Chronicles of Dissent (by way of Threat Level). This time I’m supposed to grab the nearest book, open to page 123, go down to the 5th sentence and type up the 3 following sentences. Not sure why, or if someone is going to be patching all these […]
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