Seb's Open Research
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Thursday, May 08, 2003
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Radio email (dys)function
I'm getting a sense that the "email me" link that sends me mail through the UserLand server is quite often not working properly. Have other Radio users had the same problem?
As an alternative, you can send me feedback at the address paquetse at iro.NO--SPAM.umontreal.ca (or leave comments on recent posts).
 11:07:04 AM
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Why Meatball matters
Meatball Wiki is a little-known gem in the jungle of online community-related material on the Web. What is it about? A whole lot of fascinating stuff - in founder Sunir Shah's words:
It philosophizes about the nature of hypertext, government, and identity. It talks about user interfaces, community building, and conflict resolution. But it also contains technical analyses of indexing schemes, wiki architecture, and inter-wiki protocol design.
Sunir has recently been busy writing up a nice summary of what's significant about Meatball, as part of a work portfolio he's preparing to get into the Knowledge Media Design Institute at the University of Toronto.
I believe Sunir understands Wiki philosophy better than anyone else I know. His contributions to framing the concept and patterns of soft security that underlie the social architecture of Wikis are what made me an early convert to Meatball. If only Sunir had kept a blog instead of a home-brewed diary page, he'd surely be well-known in social software circles today.
Hopefully, as the Wiki way slowly seeps into the mainstream Internet mentality, its perceived weirdness will subside and collaborative hypermedia communities like this one will get the recognition (and linkage) they deserve.
9:26:56 AM
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Wednesday, May 07, 2003
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Open Education interviews Lessig
Open Education Interview: Lawrence Lessig
Open Education (a grassroots organization advocating for open educational content - developed by individual educators or as part of a community of practice) recently interviewed Professor Lawrence Lessig from Stanford Law School. Professor Lessig is a recognized leader in cyberlaw, promoting a balance of fairness in content creation and public use - a vision often in conflict with large media/content corporations.
Lessig is shifting his attention away from the court and towards educating the public, which I believe is a very sound move.
"Losing in the court means that we have to do a lot more in the public space. We have to do a lot more work in convincing people of the importance of this. I’ve shifted a lot of my energies to Creative Commons, which is one place where we’ll try to do this. The real struggle now will be to make sure that we make a wide range of people aware of exactly what’s at stake, so that we can begin to build a political movement that gets reflected in the political process."
3:11:27 PM
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Shameless blog-promotion how-to
Promoting One's Blog [Roland Tanglao via elearnspace]
Most of this piece of advice is dedicated to the high art of pitching posts to other bloggers by private e-mail in order to get links. I can't tell you whether it works because I've never done it, but the tips make a lot of sense. An example:
Does your recipient often link to other bloggers, at least outside his circle of blogfriends? If he almost never does, don't waste his time unless you've got something extremely juicy.
This kind of lore has got to become increasingly useful in an ever more crowded blog environment. (I'm happy I didn't get started just this spring, among the likes of Esther Dyson and eBay founder Pierre Omidyar...)
It is also a good idea to consider doing pitches publicly, in the form of relevant comments to posts on a more popular blog.
2:54:53 PM
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Weblogs, information sharing, and education
George sums up a recent overview article by Stephen Downes:
MORE THAN PERSONAL: THE IMPACT OF WEBLOGS
Quote: "Weblogs were like a direct channel into the heart of a discipline, expressed with the authority of those deeply involved in its inner workings."
Comment: This article does a quick, effective run through blogging, covering how they started, their original use, RSS, and their role in education. "The next educational use of blogs will be for the distribution of learning content. Blogs form an ideal medium for the distribution of professional development and other learning resources."
Extensive list of blogging related resources at the end of the article.
2:43:33 PM
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Monday, May 05, 2003
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Sunday, May 04, 2003
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Good news
Last friday, the département d'informatique et de recherche opérationnelle of Université de Montréal, as represented by a jury composed of profs. Guy Lapalme (president), Esma Aïmeur (advisor), Gilles Brassard (co-advisor), Marc Kaltenbach (jury member), and Tommaso Toffoli (external examiner, from Boston University) granted me a Ph.D. in Computer Science.
The room was chock full with students, professors, friends, and family members (the department director even had to sit on the floor!). I had to give a 45-minute talk summarizing my research contributions and to field questions from the jury and the audience.
I believe it went reasonably well. Several of my friends and family members were pleasantly surprised to find that they actually understood all of my presentation and the question/answer session that followed. I was really happy to see their faces in the room. Thanks to everyone for your support!!
I am extremely grateful to my advisors, who believed in me and had courage enough to let me go way off the beaten path while supporting and advising me every step of the way. THANK YOU!
Oh, and YULbloggers Karl Dubost and Ed Bilodeau showed up and very competently blogged the event. Both wrote that the experience of being there had made them enthusiastic about doing research. That's cool!
11:59:11 AM
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