Are We Ready for Half-Baked Ideas- May 15, 2008 In "Open Source Scholarly Publishing" I summarized a scholarly communications model called open source publishing being proposed by Dr. Eric Mockensturm. It presents a dynamic environment that allows authors to present their ideas rapidly, even in 'half baked' unfinished form, and then fill in material as it becomes available.Today, as I walked around campus, I listened to an Educause podcast from the Seminars on Academic Computing Conference by Jon Udell, Evangelist of Microsoft Corporation,...http://ericschnell.blogspot.com/2008/05/are-we-ready-for-half-baked-ideas.html MLA 2008 Conference Blogging Aggregated Feed- May 9, 2008 David Rothman pulled together a very cool Yahoo Pipes feed using Feedburner that aggregrates all of the MLA 2008 conference bloggers postings. The conference wiki has a feed as well, although I do not know when it was added since David indicated in his post that there wasn't one.It also looks like David will be doing some neat audiovideo stuff. I also plan to pull people aside and use the iSight on my MacBook to capture hallway talks. We are trying to set up a schedule so all the bloggers do..http://ericschnell.blogspot.com/2008/05/mla-2008-conference-blogging-aggregated.html |