Category — General

Rocket Roadmap Project.

Rocket Roadmap Project (large EC funded project): full title doesn't say it well, description too, but I see focus on KM/e-learning connections :)

[Objectives] Rocket will prepare a strategic roadmap for future developments in organisational learning relevant to the education of engineers and knowledge workers.

[...]How to link knowledge management (KM) at the level of an organisation, with KM and E-Learning at the level of people working within an organisation or moving between organisations, so that knowledge that is new to someone can be captured and shared more readily and so that people can cope better with changes in their working life and their environment (including new colleagues, ever-changing tasks and processes, certification requirements, etc.)

I guess this site it something to mine if you don't know where to start looking for general overviews of KM/e-learning issues (state-of-the-arts, user requirements – see deliverables).

[Mathemagenic]

this looks like it could grow into something interesting. there was a group in florida working on this red….something…. still making much monies on certification and updates of engineers

Learning webs.

Sebastian Fiedler writes about Learning Webs and comments on technologies that would support them:

• RSS: I want more control by Dale Pike, Will is thinking on using RSS effectively, Syndicated Publishing by David Wiley
• Outlining: Finding Your Own Truths: Ideas for Weblog Processing by Spike Hall

Given recent announcement of Easy News Topics for RSS2.0 I feel that something very tasty is cooking… Topic-based RSS chuncking and repackaging – yammy…

[Mathemagenic]

this is interesting, i can think of several more applications of this….

Amtek Tablet PC.

Sleek-looking Tablet PC from Amtek that mounts onto a rotating docking station arm. Mounted horizontally it looks a lot like the flat-screen iMac. The Amtek Tablet PC hits the US next month and has a 1GHz processor, 256MB of RAM, and a 30GB hard drive.
Read [Thanks, Christopher Coulter]

[Gizmodo]

ooo nifty new toy, my titanium comes in tomorrow though

John Willinsky, Scholarly Associations and the Eco …. John Willinsky, Scholarly Associations and the Economic Viability of Open Access Publishing, Journal of Digital Information, 4, 2 (April 9, 2003). Abstract: “The paper considers a number of economic issues that scholarly associations are confronting in moving their journals online, with a focus on the possible viability of an open access or free-to-read format. It explores the current content overlap between subscription-based and open access sources, and considers how these redundancies favor open access publishing and indexing. It utilizes the tax returns for 20 US non-profit scholarly associations to analyze current publishing revenues against costs, arguing that the associations could make up the loss of revenue posed by the open access publishing model through cost savings and other revenue sources, while serving their membership better through the increased readership in an era of declining subscriptions. While the decision to publish journals in an open access format is by no means simply an economic one, the viability of open access publishing warrants serious consideration by scholarly associations that are currently determining what this new medium may mean for the circulation of knowledge.” (Thanks to ResourceShelf.) [FOS News]

this is an important article for anyone workinf in digial publishing and archiving of scholrly material

Write for you.

This is just too good to miss. Elizabeth Hall Associates looks to be one of those promising startups that boldly tap into the steadily growing market of sleep-deprived, ambitious students.

“We provide a totally secure and confidential customised writing service, copywriting and personal effectiveness skills building.

CUSTOMIZED ACADEMIC WORK CANNOT BE DETECTED BY NATIONAL PLAGIARISM DETECTION TOOLS.

THIS IS RISK FREE. THIS IS UNDETECTABLE CHEATING.”

[Seb's Open Research]

well this isn't new, search for dissertation writing or dissertaiton proposal on the net and you'll get about 80 of these services. to me it is very dissappointing to consider that some of my colleagues may not be producing their own work. I mean this whole deal is about the author, and in that, the project is embodied, but hey…..

Spatial metaphor considered harmful.

Matt Jones, reflecting on the last Information Architecture Summit: “We talk about navigating when we mean understanding.”

(Go read his post if you're wondering about the font size and color.) [Seb's Open Research]

mapping, ie navigating, isn't understanding it is representing. In the map we have the ability to understand an abstraction, not the original, and ftmp, the understanding can never be understood as the whole, in the on the ground totalizing experience.

Sun Certified System Administrator. 3 Apr 2003: Unix Review tells us about the Sun Certified System Administrator.”This month, I will focus on the Sun Certified System Administrator, Part I exam for Solaris 9 (exam CX-310-014). This exam consists of 57 multiple-choice, drag-and-drop, and free response questions that must be answered within 105 minutes, with 64% or more correct to pass. A complete list of the exam objectives can be found here. In this article, the focus will be on what topics you need to know, and where you can find more [RootPrompt.org -- Nothing but Unix]]]

well, i should get this, and then i could teach this sort of thing, cause i do it everyday anyway, solaris9 is pretty simple comparably to early solaris versions, but overall it is still somewhat more complicated than the bsd versions.

When Games Override Calls as Phone Feature. Nokia, Sony Ericsson and their competitors are deploying technology to let callers kick, punch and beat one another up over their mobile handsets. By Matt Richtel. [New York Times: Technology]

zam, bang, smash, god i despise phones, i really do, not the users, but the concept that you may have someone far away that you think deserves more attention than your immediate experience. in fact, I'm writing, mcluhanesqly on the desocialization surrounding the mediation of the radio based phone. think local act global right, or is that the opposite….;)

Steve Hitchcock has created two extremely useful w …. Steve Hitchcock has created two extremely useful web pages amounting to a comprehensive and up-to-date directory of OAI-compliant, open-access eprint archives. The Core metalist of open access eprint archives lists the major lists of archives by type. The Metalist of open access eprint archives is the same list with helpful annotations. The first will be updated more regularly than the second. Having a definitive metalist or directory will help users find archives and help activists measure the progress of the movement. Thank you, Steve! [FOS News]

handy

The April issue of Learned Publishing is now onlin …. The April issue of Learned Publishing is now online. Here are the FOS-related articles. Only the table of contents and abstracts are freely accessible.

• Colin Steele, Phoenix rising: new models for the research monograph?

• Mark S. Frankel, Seizing the moment: scientists' authorship rights in the digital age
• Heather Dalterio Joseph, BioOne: building a sustainable alternative publishing model for non-profit publishers
• Alan Turner; Pippa Steele, Archiving – the full-text solution: an innovative way to electronic archiving
• Pippa Smart, E-journals: developing country access survey
• David J. Powell, Voluntary deposit of electronic publications: a learning experience

[FOS News]

between the discussion on air-l and this, e-publishing is getting some coverage this week