DRP 2010

Collaborative Encyplopedia Wikipedia is test-driving a new editing scheme to enahnce its credibility, making it subject to screeing and altering before it is published online. Doesn't this not defeat the purpose of it in the first place?

Articles by Jean Burgess at QUT. Interesting researcher who has just co-authored a book with @joshgreen

Rebecca Blood and John Quiggin readings

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While current computing practice abounds with innovations like online auctions, blogs, wikis, twitter, social networks and online social games, few if any genuinely new theories have taken root in the corresponding "top" academic journals. Those creating computing progress increasingly see these journals as unreadable, outdated and irrelevant. Yet as technology practice creates, technology theory is if anything becoming even more conforming and less relevant. We attribute this to the erroneous assumption that research rigor is excellence, a myth contradicted by the scientific method itself. Excess rigor supports the demands of appointment, grant and promotion committees, but is drying up the wells of academic inspiration. Part I of this paper chronicles the inevitable limits of what can only be called a feudal academic knowledge exchange system, with trends like exclusivity, slowness, narrowness, conservatism, self-involvement and inaccessibility. We predict an upcoming social upheaval in academic publishing as it shifts from a feudal to democratic form, from knowledge managed by the few to knowledge managed by the many. The technology trigger is socio-technical advances. The drive will be that only democratic knowledge exchange can scale up to support the breadth, speed and flexibility modern cross-disciplinary research needs. Part II suggests the sort of socio-technical design needed to bring this transformation about.

I'm sure there are many more common mistakes. Which ones do you see people make

Three technology heavyweights are joining a coalition to fight Google's attempt to create what could be the world's largest virtual library.

Interesting case, though I don't know if something has been done about that licence problem by now (it happened in 2007)

From the discussion in the class about the copyright of whatever we posted in facebook. Here you can see at the number 4.

Objective: To understand belief in a specific scientific claim by studying the pattern of citations among papers stating it.

Vowing to fight unauthorized reproduction of news reports online, The Associated Press said Thursday that it will add software to each article showing who created it and what limits apply to the rights to use it. The software will also notify the A.P. about how the article is used across the Web.

Use FriendFee to keep up with the digital - Interesting read.

Twitter sues Australian developer

Two Vermont statisticians are analyzing Twitter's river of messages to monitor the public's changing moods and what affects them.

6 New Personality Disorders Caused by the Internet

The ABC is to play host to a conference that claims to be "the first Australian Twitter conference".