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8:42:36 PM    

Academia and the Web. Academics on the Web: finding each other/ourselves is a very interesting vision statement by Jill Arnold & Hugh Miller (which I found thanks to Gilles). I found myself pretty much in agreement with everything in there.

There has been a recurring problem in academia concerning how people find each other rather than just the officially published work and how people find themselves or position themselves as part of a wider /global community. The Web and Internet technologies now provide opportunities to create presence 'out-there' of self and work but collectively we could also try to find ways to critically re-evaluate our work and debate and question the moral basis for what we find ourselves doing. [...] [Seb's Open Research]

Heureux que la référence ait servie... Pour ma part je découvre à chaque jour des ressources et des réseaux dans ce 'melting pot' de Pattern Language for civic and community communication. Deux textes, parmi tant d'autres qui m'apparaissent intéressants :

• Les communautés géographiques et le capital social, Social Capital and Communities of Place, par Jan L. Flora
• Au delà de jouer ensemble au bowling... Beyond Bowling Together : SocioTechnical Capital, par Paul Resnick

7:42:47 PM    

There seems to be a renewed increase in finding new sites of interest based on blogs and RSS. I really wish I had more time to play with all of these right now, but here's what I'm trying to track.

• I haven't had time to really look at it, but Dave Winer introduced RSS Explorer last month.
• Mark Pilgrim has introduced Recommended Reading. Just enter your URL and get a list of sites that might be interesting to you. Read more about it here.
• Phil Wolff is looking at his Blog Back Report and a Blog Neighbourhood Analysis.

I wonder if I'll be able to use these types of tools when we get our blog + RSS software running at four Illinois Library Systems next year. Yes, I'll definitely have to figure out a way to have our own Blogging Ecosystem, etc. [Jenny Levine]

Jenny names some interesting projects. I will be watching them closely...

2:42:53 PM    

Now this seems more feasible than any previous thought I've had about this blog-vention notion. Next year, NCTE and NWP convene here in SF in November. NWP is pumping it as its 30th. anniversary, but it's actually BAWP's 30th. (NWP didn't arrive on the scene until 1977.) Anyway, as part of the festivities celebrating our 30th. anniversary, BAWP is interested in hosting the first international blogs in education convention. There are some definite advantages to this scenario:

1. SF. Comon' ya'll, the Emerald City. If you're gonna' spend bucks for the trip anyway, make the destination delightful.
2. SF. We've got access to school computer facilities for next to nothing.
3. NCTE and NWP will be paying for folks to fly in around that time anyway and some participants  can piggyback travel costs. This applies esp. to university folks.
4. We might be able to find some co-sponsors or at least interested parties to go along with BAWP. Userland / Frontier and other blog pioneers have a physical presence on the peninsula. Kern County's Web team is just down the road. UC Berkeley's IU may want to get involved.
5. Timeline. We get a year to plan it. Which might mean some opportunities for interesting planning sessions, including around the NWP tech institute in W. Virginia in July; my (hoped for ) meetings with Sebastian and Peter in August; and some sort of Mid Atlantic / New England thing that Joe and and Will and Middlebury folk might do at their convenience.
6. Timeline. We get to grow the community a little while longer before we attempt the gathering of tribes.

[Pat Delaney]

Pat suggestion sounds like a feasible option to me. What do you think?

2:42:52 PM