McLuhan Course of Course Blogs. I heard from Mark Federman of the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology. He teaches a graduate course in “Mind, Media and Society” at the University of Toronto, my alma mater. He writes: “Essentially the course teaches people to think like Marshall McLuhan did… you know… come up with cute […]

Personal knowledge publishing and its uses in research (1/2) – 10 Jan 2003. Quote: “In this two-part document, I analyze an emerging form of knowledge sharing that I call personal knowledge publishing. Personal knowledge publishing has its roots in a practice known as “weblogging” that has been rapidly spreading on the World Wide Web over […]

Encouraging Knowledge Sharing. Quote: “Often, we assume that people share based on “what's in it for me”…i.e. sharing of knowledge happens because I think it will help me some how. That may be true…but I wonder if there is such a thing as sharing simply because it is the most natural thing to do with […]

The Direction of Academic Publishing. Quote: “As can be expected, “Academic Publishing in the Digital Realm”, an interview with Clifford Lynch,executive director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) that is full of insightful nuggets. I highly recommend it to anyone who cares about the influence of digital technology on where scholarly publishing is going. […]

[the reverse cowgirl's blog] while i'm not sure that blacksburg needs such a service, i can see how it would be worthwhile in other parts of the world. i mean overall, who cares what they don't wear, as long as they do the job. and believe me, data entry is not fun, or is anything […]

Debut for 'the world's most decadent burger' [Ananova: News] cheeseburger in paradise, heaven on earth with an onion slice… etc. etc. btw, mikes burgers in blacksburg serves a likely competitor toward best burger ever. however, sandy's bar which is on your way out of dushore pennsylvania on 87 toward laporte is probably the best i've […]

Microsoft settles suit for $1.1 billion. just in The company resolves a California class-action lawsuit, agreeing to hand out vouchers to certain Windows buyers good for products from Microsoft or others. [CNET News.com] 110 billion was more appropriate…

Donantonio Borns. Two years ago Ismael Olea (olea), Juan JosŽ Amor (jjamor) and David Escorial wrote the specifications of requisites for Donantonio, Donantonio it's an bibliographic system for automatic distribuited publication which will help us at es.tldp.org (called also LuCAS), now the implementation of this system is being discussed a lot in the lists of […]

The HomePod. It's not from Apple, but the HomePod will let Mac users do something that PC users have been able to do for a while – wirelessly beam the MP3s stored on their computer to anywhere in the house: The HomePod enhances Apple's digital hub, picking up where iTunes and iPod leave off. Think […]

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