Does morality affect economic performance? Empirical evidence | vox – Research-based policy analysis and commentary from Europe’s leading economists:
But perhaps the most important question of all concerns the policy implications of these findings. What policy instruments are more appropriate to an environment with adverse cultural traits, and which policy interventions ought to be avoided? Does political decentralisation facilitate the acquisition of favourable values, and is self-government something that can be learnt through experience? And what can be done to facilitate this collective learning process? The promotion of economic development would become much easier if we could answer these questions.
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what actually is the implications of this research? is it anything different than political theory has said and empirically founded in tens of hundreds of examples, narratives, and other evidence?

School Library Learning 2.0:

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some nice tutorials for web 2.0 and library 2.0

Academic Commons special issue on Cyberinfrastructure and the Liberal Arts (December 02007):
Edited by David L. Green and dedicated to the memory of the remarkable digital and radical historian Roy Rosenzweig (1950-2007), the December 02007 issue of Academic Commons brings together a series of papers on Cyberinfrastructure and the Liberal Arts.
Source: DIGLIB mailing list, 02007 12 17
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some good articles.

Open meaning:
This all started for me when Jeremy
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I think Pa^2 might be pointing more toward detraditionalization as a system of delegitimation or loss of our grounding narratives. People are generalizably cynical, in that they do not accept that the groundings of meaning and truth are unbound from their system of expectation of politics, ethics, and social norms.