All those topics that i wish i had time to pursue more earnestly.

buy one.

here is a republican citizen acting like he should not be a citizen, but should be a detainee of the court system because he is assaulting someone and preventing free speech and such.

notre musique. yestereday was opening day toronto international film festival. godard's notre musique, a deeply-felt commentary on the contemporary hell and purgatory wrought by man's inhumanity to man and the effects of war in particular. the film opens with an especially powerful poetic montage of historical and contemporary footage of … [Megan Boler's Weather Reports]

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megan has a blog… see….

[foo] Designing shared ontologies. Jason Cole lead a session on how to design a tool he wants to build. He says most academic technology is aimed at teachers. How do we build tools that support learning? His wife just started grad school and wants a tool that will build a personal knowledge base. But it should work with her friends' bases. And you'd like to find others working on the same issues. That means merging disparate ontologies. What do you do about degree of belief? Ontologies are binary, but people don't think in that binary way. “The problem with monolithic ontologies is that interesting… [Joho the Blog]

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some people know that i've worked on something for this before….

i use mediawiki, it works pretty well.

this is a short theory on the information elite… it misses one key difference, other than its inherent wrongness, and that is that the difference between the command-line people and the gui people.

This Explains EVERYTHING. Indiana University study: having children significantly lowers parents’ IQs…. [Discourse.net]

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interesting….

worth listening.

gpgNet discussion of OA. The Global Public Goods Network (gpgNet) will host an online discussion of open access from September 20 until October 4, 2004. Everyone interested in the topic is welcome to join. Participants are encouraged to read the gpgNet introduction, the Budapest Open Access Initiative, and my Open Access Overview. gpgNet is a program of the United Nations Development Programme. [Open Access News]

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i'll have to participate in this, Vikas is a good colleague.

Jason Nolan, Knowledge Media Design Institute, University of Toronto

Jeremy Hunsinger, Center for Digital Discourse and Culture, Virginia Tech

Submissions due January 15, 2005

''Less of You, More of Us: The Political Economy of Power in Virtual Communities''

The goal is to bring into the dialogue a number of researchers on virtual community who are looking at the borders and peripheral locations that are ignored, unknown or explicitly overlooked. Within the notion that community, often the walls we build around ourselves formÊ mechanism of power and preference, this issue will examine online communities that are excluded or self-excluding from the dominant forms, norms and discourses. For example, there are a large number of researchers inquiring into the recent blogging phenomenon, but I have heard many explicitly exclude technologies/communities such as LiveJournal.com with his 3.8 million users (1.7 active), and discount the value ofÊ teenage bloggers, who are mostly female (67% of Livejournal users). Because researchers tend to cover familiar territories, we encourage authors to explore alternatives. Our issue will provide researchers with the opportunity to expose the readership to a wider sense of virtual community and what is going on at the edges of the event horizon.

Some of the anticipated themes are: hacking virtual community; the overlooked, broken down, subverted or reconceptualized virtual communities; borders and breaches, the ordering of virtual community; hacktivism; sexually focused virtual communities; questioning the value of online community; collective intelligence is just the fordism of the mind; the Slash Fiction communities; MOOs the early forgotten virtual communities; and the code beneath the community – exploring programmer and system administrative communities.

Submissions should be sent to both: jason.nolan@utoronto.ca and jhuns@vt.edu
Web site: http://www.acm.org/sigs/siggroup