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Short interesting article given this week's videos/readings on social economics as well as sharing information through technology. Mark Zuckerberg certainly has a vision for giving every single person on the planet the ability to communicate with each other and make commerce a more available item for anyone

Transcript attached. Snowden unable to attend in person.

He elegido este video porque explica la influencia de las redes sociales en el mundo real, menciona lo impresionante que es interactuar con personas de distintas partes del mundo.

Este articulo me impresionó porque nunca me habia planteado el infierno que debe ser que te quiten informacion sobre uno mismo que te perjudica y que puede no ser cierta.

Algo parecido comenta El País: "Google ha recibido ya más de 70.000 peticiones de internautas para retirar enlaces que les afectan en aplicación del derecho al olvido reconocido por el Tribunal de Justicia de la UE de y ha comenzado a enviar notificaciones a páginas web para informarles de que va a dejar de mostrar en sus resultados determinados enlaces. El pasado 30 de mayo publicó un formulario para que los usuarios europeos pudieran solicitar la eliminación de los resultados del buscador ligados a sus nombres. Según anunció entonces Google, cada petición sería analizada de forma individual. La británica BBC ha sido la primera en encontrarse con un aviso de Google, anunciando que dejará de indexar un post escrito en 2007 en el blog Peston Picks, del periodista Robert Peston, sobre un antiguo jefe de inversiones de Merrill Lynch. Peston, autor de la pieza, ha escrito otro artículo en el que muestra su malestar contra la sentencia, que obliga a Google a borrar datos "insuficientes, irrelevantes o que ya no son relevantes" cuando un particular lo solicite. El periodista argumenta que el artículo sobre Stan O'Neal, exdirector de la firma de inversión, mantiene interés y no merece desaparecer: "Un financiero de alto nivel, que sigue en el espectro público y que ha tenido un papel relevante en una de las peores crisis financieras que se recuerdan tiene que aparecer en los resultados". En su opinión esta medida servirá para acotar la libertad de expresión." http://tecnologia.elpais.com/tecnologia/2014/07/03/actualidad/1404405567_813834.html

Open Access also opens up a much wider ability to adopt other forms of information transmission than print. The embedding of the videos into this MOOC is a case in point. As librarians, we are then challenged to ensure that our intermediation, whether through Information Literacy training or direct reference assistance, takes into account the growing need of users to be able to make sense of all forms of communication. This fairly short article addresses this issue and states the challenge we face succintly and to the point!

With the changes in technology, it is harder and harder to protect author's intellectual property. However, we can try to achieve a balance between open access and intellectual property.

Proposes an alternative future where author self-publish their work for peer review outside of traditional journals.

Si, porque también se menciona, como dice en su proposición, Harvie et al. (2014) hacen un magnífico trabajo que describe los hechos exasperantes de la actual académico panorama editorial. Todos sabemos cómo funciona el sistema y cómo se juega el juego. Lo que se quiere dar a conocer una realidad alternativa facilitada por la plataforma de revisión por pares abierto gratuito, libre y sugerir acciones concretas que ayuden al movimiento científico comunidad hacia un sistema de evaluación de conocimientos y el intercambio más abierto y eficiente que se divorcia de revisión por pares desde la publicación de revistas.

The proposed alternative future is achievable, but not without resistance of traditional publishing, I think.

Who has heard of this festival about Open Knowledge? Who has been there?

"¿Es el conocimiento abierto una tendencia para el público en general o es por contra una ocupación de especialistas?"

Estoy de acuerdo pero debemos ser capaces de filtrar la información para no perdernos en la gran cantidad de información a la que tenemos de libre acceso.

Tal vez no los resuelva, como se cita en el documento, pero también estoy de acuerdo en que debemos ser críticos, para darle valor a todo tipo de información.

Cool citizen science in BC!

Great fact sheet that I just used to write a paper for CMNS 323 at SFU. Very informative on the policies of the new EU law.

Interesting workshop at SFU about student publishing! Actual web page has info, and any students at SFU are encouraged to attend to learn more!

Now that internet uses are finding themselves with several social networking profiles to manage, it is easy for all that content and information to become nothing more than noise; pointless chatter that takes up vital brain cells and gets in the way of important details.

If you are interested/involved in the field of Information and Digital Literacy, this site is for you. It is run by information professionals from key UK organizations actively involved in this field. This is an amazing source that has been created for practitioners, researchers, and anyone with such interest from around the world. It is well structured, maintained, and updated. It provides definitions and models, teaching materials, information about research in the filed of Information Literacy, extra reading (e.g. books, journals, websites, reports, etc.), and much more. You can search about Information Literacy by sector (e.g. schools, health, public, and special libraries, higher and further education, etc.). You can also get in touch with editorial team or leave your comment.

Wits University said yesterday that it was partnering edX, a non-profit provider of such online courses that was founded by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. edX has more than 200 000 students in Africa who will now be able to access free courses offered by Wits without having to pay a cent.

this is a good innitiative by Wits, Its good to see African University keeping up with the world trends in education. Considering the cost of education in SA this will make life easier. However acess to broadband and internet is still a problem.

Here is a list of the core readings and additional resources for each module from the Open Knowledge Changing the Global Course of Learning MOOC--a partial textbook for the course.

Sitios muy interesantes: http://mcpress.media-commons.org/plannedobsolescence/five-the-university/the-history-of-the-university-press/ http://www.amacad.org/publications/spring2002/hesse.pdf http://rstl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/1/1-22/1.full.pdf+html http://www.ccel.org/ccel/benedict/rule2/files/rule2.html#ch33 http://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/titles/content/9780262512664_Download_the_full_text.pdf

thanks for sharing this

"Open access to academic research has never been a hotter topic. But it's still held back by myths and misunderstandings repeated by people who should know better. The good news is that open access has been successful enough to attract comment from beyond its circle of pioneers and experts. The bad news is that a disappointing number of policy-makers, journalists and academics opine in public without doing their homework."

Open access is a hot topic in today's world. The article clarifies some misunderstandings about open access

Okmooc was my first mooc experience, and quality is one of the main reason that can lead me to do it all again. So, open does not mean poor quality.

With these resources, you can create or participate in collaborative efforts to develop tools and methods for online education.

Many Open Education Resources (OER) have been introduced by governments, universities, and individuals within the past few years. OERs provide teaching and learning materials that are freely available and offered online for anyone to use. Whether you're an instructor, student, or self-learner, you have access to full courses, modules, syllabi, lectures, assignments, quizzes, activities, games, simulations, and tools to create these components.

Thanks. An extensive list of resources. It may have been easier to use the list if it wasn't categorised only alphabetically but also further grouped into categories. It's still a valuable collection.

Many interesting charts and data of the global internet use, access, and contributions

Atlas, publications, charts and tables of global information and internet geographies and impacts on information access, information production and information distribution, done over a four year period by Oxford Information Institute. Findings, data, and publication will be published in Open Access formats and platforms. The website is simple but contains lots of information relevant to the topics in Stanford. There are links to external related publications about information geography, access, distribution and production. Very good website. Some limitations include: bias from the two developers and producers as well as institution itself, unknown (not identified) contributors and sponsors.

A very valuable collection demonstrating how economic, political, cultural and linguistic ties impact the flow of knowledge is and information. Of course, such charts do little to explain, why this happens and where a more even distribution of knowledge is desirable. Also, the data that lies behind the visualisations is not always open. Especially vauable are the links to the data collections that are accessible.