Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Sharing my information overload Exploring Publishing Possibilities: A McConnell Library Symposium The fine print at that address mentions that I'm on a panel Wednesday, discussing "online publishing" with blogs, wikis and Web sites (the kind of work I've been doing for years), and its relationship to the kind of "publishing" that gets people tenure (the kind I seem to avoid compulsively). It dawns on me that I may be on this panel to serve as a bad example! In any case, it should be entertaining. If you can't make the event in person, here are a few relevant links for my general stream of clicks-or-consciousness on the themes of our discussion -- academic publishing issues today, including "open access" publishing, examples of online interactivity behaving something like peer review, and some online examples of research data being presented to new audiences in new ways. I may or may not get around to annotating this list on my blog after the panel, but the compulsive clickers among you will quickly see where the collection is headed... starting with an experiment in "blog-based peer review." http://chronicle.com/free/2008/04/2332n.htm * http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/02/28/open http://chronicle.com/free/2008/01/1322n.htm http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/293/5538/2187a http://tinyurl.com/2dxa6w http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/16362.ctl http://www.nature.com/nature/peerreview/debate/nature04997.html http://inquirer.philly.com/packages/somalia/ http://wethemedia.oreilly.com/ http://codev2.cc/ http://codebook.jot.com/WikiHome http://www.smartmobs.com/ http://www.rheingold.com/ http://www.instapundit.com/archives/028317.php http://www.cluetrain.com/ http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/12/books/12publ.html http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/WEBSUC.html http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=521835 http://www.danah.org/ http://www.danah.org/papers/ http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2008/02/06/openaccess_is_t.html http://www.ksu.edu/sasw/anthro/wesch.htm http://tinyurl.com/3ao3rm http://everyblock.com http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/92 http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/140 http://gapminder.org/ OK, so your main conclusion may be that I'm developing an unrequiteable crush on danah boyd... or at least on her research productivity. Perhaps giving up uppercase letters on one's name helps... --- * While most of this page was posted on the date indicated, one breaking-news link was added the next morning. Coincidentally, I was able to do that without the need of resorting to GMail's "custom time" feature http://mail.google.com/mail/help/customtime/index.html Actually, the deceptive "manipulation of time" is another issue in the world of academic publishing, something that would be appropriate for a new edition of another panel I was part of once, on digital research archives. 4:32:59 PM    comment []

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