Posts from — February 2008

What Do We Know About Our Kids’ Futures? Really.

[From Weblogg-ed » What Do We Know About Our Kids’ Futures? Really.]

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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 in favor of performance of others’ goals.

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 exchange knowledge and views on the methodology and the quality of the country reviews. [From Symposium on Comparative Analysis of National Research Systems]

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this is the second symposium on this topic, and these reports are interesting reading.they cover the arab, african, south american and asian systems.

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]

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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 beagles ’sound’ off. they sound when excited, else they are pretty quiet.

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 that you think will fit, please submit it.

Appendix 1 will be a listing of Research Degree Programs, that is
programs that offer either an Master’s or Doctoral level degree
relating to internet research. We intend to include as many programs
as we can collect within editorial discretion and space limitations.

To have your degree program/s included in this listing, please send
the following information:
Name of Program:
Departmental home/s of Program:
University/Institutional home of Program:
Address of Program:
Short description of Program (250 words):
Listing of contributing faculty working in internet research:
and other pertinent information to be included at editor’s discretion.

Appendix 2 will be a listing of Major Research Centers/Institutes in
the field of Internet Research. Inclusion in the list will be at the
editors’ discretion, but we will strive to be reasonably inclusive
given space limitations.

To have a Center included in this listing please send the following
information:

Name of Center/Institute:
Institutional home of center/institute:
Address of center/institute:
Short Description of Program (250 words):
Listing of fewer than 10 research topics/keywords:
Listing of leading members of the center/institute:
Listing of founders of the center/institute:
Listing of recent research projects/publications (up to 5
bibliographic citations with up to 50 word descriptions which may be
edited because of space limitations):
Listing of affiliated research centers as appropriate:

Please submit this information to: handbook08@gmail.com with the
subject ‘degree’ for degree programs and the subject line ‘center’ for
research centers. The deadline for submission is March 1, if you need
more time, please contact us at the address above.

Thank you,
Handbook Editors
Jeremy Hunsinger
Matthew Allen
Lisbeth Klastrup

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 mass media, both in historical and contemporary terms. Fifth-Estate-Online is a timely and welcome addition to our Center’s holdings, and we invite everyone to visit – and perhaps even contribute to – this fine online journal. [From center for digital discourse and culture]

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great news, congratulations brent.

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 A to Z Guide to Political Interference in Science]

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this is a great resource. we need more work like this to be present in the world. People have to know that not everything presented as knowledge is not political… in fact, i’d say none is apolitical, but the type of politics is the question, this site highlights the real partisan politics type of interference.

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]

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a nice resource for people interested in the literacy issue surrounding information.

Academia is a Cult

[From Academia is a Cult « Bug Girl’s Blog]

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here’s an interesting set of opinions. too bad some things don’t fit… though certainly other parts of the argument illustrate certain parallelisms

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]

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sprout i suppose could enable more people to build flash tools….

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 together into some kind of mash-up, but I’ll play along… [From 123 Meme: michaelzimmer.org]

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“And I constructed mesoscopic analyses, chronological accounts, through a qualitative and simple quantitative examination of the twelve participants’ session in terms of their local activity systems and the genres they used. I describe each of the three analyses in more detail below.” In Tracing Genres by Clay Spinuzzi. I just picked this book up form a used bookstore online.

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and I’m just reading it now, but… overall it is written from a rhetoric understanding of genre more than an organizational analysis of genre, it seems to me. That’s interesting though and it makes some interesting corollary points.