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Trends for late 2009: Mobile Technologies to merge with Social Networking to create unprecedented growth

Trends for late 2009: Mobile Technologies to merge with Social Networking to create unprecedented growth

One should not think of analogy-making as a special variety of reasoning (as in the dull and uninspiring phrase "analogical reasoning and problem-solving," a long-standing cliché in the cognitive-science world), for that is to do analogy a terrible disservice. After all, reasoning and problem-solving have (at least I dearly hope!) been at long last recognized as lying far indeed from the core of human thought. If analogy were merely a special variety of something that in itself lies way out on the peripheries, then it would be but an itty-bitty blip in the broad blue sky of cognition. To me, however, analogy is anything but a bitty blip - rather, it's the very blue that fills the whole sky of cognition - analogy is everything, or very nearly so, in my view.

TimesHigherEducation: Next-gen PhD's fail to find Web2.0's 'on-switch' - adoption of tools is slow for doc students who believe technology is valuable but still aren't integrating it very quickly.

TimesHigherEducation: Next-gen PhD's fail to find Web2.0's 'on-switch' - adoption of tools is slow for doc students who believe technology is valuable but still aren't integrating it very quickly.

tips on how to learn (fail & fail often)

tips on how to learn (fail & fail often)

what does it mean to be a research-based profession?

Content curation is a needed skill that will only grow in importance as more big brands and publishers flood the Internet with all kinds of content. Curation can be a fun, rewarding and highly effective part of your online marketing mix. Curating content requires skill, tenacity and, above all, an unflinching focus on the needs of your audience.

runs uploaded documents through OpenCalais, giving you access to extensive information about the people, places, and organizations mentioned in each

The Book Oven: helps teams of people turn manuscripts into finished books and then publish them. Built for writers, editors, proofreaders, designers, and small presses -- invite colleagues, editors, or friends to work on a private or public project

How to set up email alerts in Google Scholar

"the most comprehensive scientific research tool on the web. With over 370 million scientific items indexed at last count, it allows researchers to search for not only journal content but also scientists' homepages, courseware, pre-print server material, patents and institutional repository and website information. "

Media Cloud: see the flow of media - builds an archive of news/blogs, applies language processing, and give you ways to analyze and visualize the data.

increasing move to digital textbooks story on NPR

on Facebooks new TOS

A useful discussion by Henry Jenkinds to extrapolate from Jenkins' Civic Engagement to the notion of Digital Scholarship

this discussion by MIT's Henry Jenkins is a fabulous overview of the role Social Media played in the 2008 Presidential Campaign (and, by extrapolation) and how these technologies are shaping cultural and personal time. Very good!

Access is relevant to Digital Scholarship. Copyright law was determined in an era when printing required expensive machinery. Nearly 2,000 professors across the country have signed the Open Textbooks Statement affirming that they will consider using open textbooks if appropriate for a class. Please build the movement the link on to any faculty members who might be interested - http://www.maketextbooksaffordable.org/statement.

this is still a very important book for researchers to read and consider