Posts from — November 2003

Coding the Classroom: Technology and The Practice of Language. “The technology of the Information Age depends on programming languages for functionality. Because programming languages ultimately affect the production of language digitally, programming languages will inevitably demonstrate a lasting effect on the process of writing. Hence it is important to recognize the impact of programming languages on the production of language. It may well be the necessary first step in understanding technologyâs reverberating presence in the classroom.” (Claudia Herbst – First Monday 8.11)… [InfoDesign: To Surf The Community]

Effect of ejournals on libraries. Victoria Robertson, The impact of electronic journals on academic libraries: the changing relationship between journals, acquisitions and inter-library loans department roles and functions, Interlending & Document Supply, 31, 3 (2003), pp. 174-179. Excerpt: “Academic libraries are in a transition period owing to the economic climate and the rise in the price of electronic and print journals. Libraries are tending to move from the system of acquiring journals to more co-operation and sharing of resources due to budgetary cuts and lack of space.” (Thanks to ResourceShelf.) [Open Access News]

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every day i run into some new or different journal that is worth investigating. this seems to be an interesting article….

Economics of open access. Alastair Dryburgh has launched a new discussion forum, Economics of Open Access. Free registration is required for access. [Open Access News]

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who owns the stuff that i post on communityzero? it is entirely unclear to me where that copyright lies….. this should have been done in a more open access manner…..

The

2003 International Online Conference on Teaching
Online in Higher Education: Online Classes Go
Mainstream,
will be held

completely online, mid-November. [A blog doesn't need a clever name]

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I think that I did this in the past, it was pretty good and someone cited my exposition for another paper, which was also good, i think….. However, maybe next year I'll make the deadline….

OAI for Beginners Online Tutorial. OAI for Beginners – the Open Archives Forum Online Tutorial
http://www.oaforum.org/tutorial/

This tutorial is an introduction to the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH).

Working through this tutorial you will:

* gain an overview of the history behind the OAI-PMH and an overview of its key features;
* achieve a deeper technical insight into how the protocol works;
* learn something about some of the main implementation issues;
* find some useful starting points and hints that will help you as an implementer.

The Overview, History and Development of OAI-PMH, and Glossary may be used on their own to gain information about OAI and OAI-PMH without going into technical implementation details. [Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker]

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Open Archives for beginners. hmm, sounds handy and useful. now if i could just get my open archive server back up, i'm still fighting CDSware, but i expect victory soon.

Deena Larsen and Gavin Inglis just brought this interesting bit of hypertext to my attention. It is well worth going through a few times to see what happens, there are several different ends that i've seen….

Results of ICANN meeting in Tunisia. last Friday (31 October), ICANN finished a week of meetings in Carthage, Tunisia. The results were announced on their website, along with the agenda and some of the conference presentations. Among the decisions reached: A timetable for introducing domain names… [InternetPolicy.net]

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Vint and Alejandro, both standard bearers and interesting choices.

More on the Million Book Project. The slides and audio of Gloriana St. Clair's public lecture on The Million Book Project (OCLC, October 24) are now online. (Thanks to ResourceShelf.) [Open Access News]

Where is the real security problem?. Ian Grigg: Ladies and Gentlemen, there you have it. The Internet Threat Model (ITM), in a nutshell.

But, every sumbitch is trying to hack into our machine, everyone has a virus scanner, a firewall,
etc etc. I'm sure we've all shared that weird feeling when we install a new firewall that notifies when your machine is being port scanned?
A new machine can be put on a totally new IP, and almost immediately, ports are being scanned…. [Epeus' epigone]

Free WiFi in “Austin Wireless City”.

The Austin (Texas) American-Statesman published a front-page story today on the proliferation of WiFi hotspots locally. The same issue includes a map of 51 local hotspots. The article focuses on Austin Wireless City, a community wireless project. led by Richard MacKinnon of Less Networks. While an industry analyst is skeptical of free WiFi, hot spots just keep appearing. Austin Wireless City's goal is to facilitate a pervasive wireless quilt for Austin. The city also has an evolving wireless cluster of over 80 companies organized through the Austin Wireless Alliance, and a major wireless study under way called Wireless Future, led by the local University of Texas-affiliated think tank, IC². Wireless Future will publish a substantial wireless report, and is organizing a conference for March 2004.

[Smart Mobs]