Booktalk “In constructing allconsuming.net, Erik has deliberately left software hooks and information bait dangling from the site, ready for us to connect and consume. Moreover, he encourages us to do so, telling us to “Use [his] XML” and try out his SOAP interface. So I did. While allconsuming.net can send you book reading recommendations (by […]

NEEEERD! – The Streak Of Anti-Intellectualism In Colleges. Plastic::Work::School: “Some college students and faculty are fretting over an 'anti-intellectual thread' running through college.” [Plastic: Most Recent] i think this is occuring more and more. I think it is in part symptomatic of a growing professionalization and profitization of the goals of higher education students.

Distributed KM. Italian research project: enabling distributed and autonomous management of knowledge The aim of this project is to develop research in information technology and software tools that support the Distributed and Autonomous Management of Knowledge. The goal will be achieved by: structuring knowledge in different “contexts”, that allow each different organization component to create, use […]

uiweb.com: How to run a design critique. In the early and middle phases of a project, teams need a way to understand and explore the current direction of the design. The challenge is to create the openness needed for good ideas to surface, while simultaneously cultivating the feedback and criticism necessary to resolve open issues. […]

Hate your TA? Now you have a home.. When Kyle's teachers got too liberal, Kyle's mom launched this Web site I laughed, I cried upon reading the Union-Trib article on student discontent with TAs at UCSD and around the country. Man, if I had a nickel for every time I heard, “Yes, I know that […]

Textfiles.com. Textfiles.com: Before the Web, before Google, we scoured Fidonet, absorbing the forbidden fruits of anarchy, occult and a lot of bad fiction. For better or worse, TEXTFILES are relics of that age. [MetaFilter] they aren't really artifacts of that age, they are artifacts of our age.

Technology anthropologists. Jim McGee in Doing anthropology cites Ernie the Attorney's post  about technology anthropologists Bold was math's i'm going to say that the more i think about this, i'm not sure that titles matter as practice, and the practice is ethnography.

Things to catch. Some of recent posts to catch: Content Management: Our Organized Future [elearnspace blog] Contagious Blogging [Ton's Interdependent thoughts] Conflicts of interest between publishers and information creators [Synesthesia] DeadJournal about LJ and blogging communities [Ross Mayfield's Weblog] Introducing: Seb's matchmaking service! [Seb's Open Research] Proxemics and knowledge management [McGee's Musings] [Mathemagenic] handy list…

More research questions about blogs. Olaf Brugman comments to the emergent KM research proposal emergent KM research proposal asking about research of weblogs (bold is mine):  I hope the research could contribute to: increasing knowledge transparency: I am enthusiast about the blogging phenomenon, with the way it can quickly form communities. However, I also find blogging leads […]

Articles on wikis. “Operation of a Large Scale, General Purpose Wiki Website” [Seb's Open Research] One of the first serious articles on wikis that isn't on a wiki (a previous one was The Reengineering Wiki (pdf)). , by susning.nu founder Lars Aronsson. Abstract: A Wiki website is a hypertext on steroids. Any user can create or edit […]