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Benjamin Jörissen

Bericht der SYNAXON AG zu ihren Enterprise 2.0-Aktivitäten: großer Erfolg des... - 0 views

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    "Ein Auszug aus unserer Wiki-Statistik von heute: Es gibt insgesamt 24.624 Seiten in der Datenbank. Insgesamt gab es 47.975.655 Seitenabrufe und 158.230 Seitenbearbeitungen seit SynaxonWiki eingerichtet wurde. Daraus ergeben sich 6,43 Bearbeitungen pro Seite und 303,20 Seitenabrufe pro Bearbeitung." Ersichtlich wird, dass Internetliteracy zunehmend eine Kernkompetenz für ArbeitnehmerInnen wird.
Benjamin Jörissen

Science 2.0 -- Is Open Access Science the Future? - Scientific American - 0 views

  • Ironically, though, the Web provides better protection than the traditional journal system, Bradley maintains. Every change on a wiki gets a time stamp, “so if someone actually did try to scoop you, it would be very easy to prove your priority—and to embarrass them. I think that’s really what is going to drive open science: the fear factor. If you wait for the journals, your work won’t appear for another six to nine months. But with open science, your claim to priority is out there right away.”
  • Science could be next. A small but growing number of researchers (and not just the younger ones) have begun to carry out their work via the wide-open tools of Web 2.0. And although their efforts are still too scattered to be called a movement—yet—their experiences to date suggest that this kind of Web-based “Science 2.0” is not only more collegial than traditional science but considerably more productive.
  • Of course, many scientists remain wary of such openness—especially in the hypercompetitive biomedical fields, where patents, promotion and tenure can hinge on being the first to publish a new discovery. For these practitioners, Science 2.0 seems dangerous: putting your serious work out on blogs and social networks feels like an open invitation to have your lab notebooks vandalized—or, worse, your best ideas stolen and published by a rival. To advocates, however, an atmosphere of openness makes science more productive. “When you do your work online, out in the open,” Hooker says, “you quickly find that you’re not competing with other scientists anymore but cooperating with them.”
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  • In principle, Surridge says, scientists should find a transition to Web 2.0 perfectly natural. After all, since the time of Galileo and Newton, scientists have built up their knowledge about the world by “crowdsourcing” the contributions of many researchers and then refining that knowledge through open debate. “Web 2.0 fits so perfectly with the way science works. It’s not whether the transition will happen but how fast,” Surridge says.
  • Although wikis are gaining, scientists have been strikingly slow to embrace one of the most popular Web 2.0 applications: Web logging, or blogging. “It’s so antithetical to the way scientists are trained,” Duke University geneticist Huntington F. Willard said at the January 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference, one of the first big gatherings devoted to this topic. The whole point of blogging is getting ideas out there quickly, even at the risk of being wrong or incomplete. “But to a scientist, that’s a tough jump to make,” Willard says. “When we publish things, by and large, we’ve gone through a very long process of drafting a paper and getting it peer-reviewed. Every word is carefully chosen, because it’s going to stay there for all time. No one wants to read, ‘Contrary to the result of Willard and his colleagues....’” Nevertheless, Willard favors blogging. As a frequent author of newspaper op-ed pieces, he feels that scientists should make their voices heard in every responsible way. Because most blogs allow outsiders to comment on the individual posts, they have proved to be a good medium for brainstorming and discussions.
  • “The peer-reviewed paper is the cornerstone of jobs and promotion,” PLoS ONE’s Surridge says. “Scientists don’t blog because they get no credit” for that.
  • Some universities may be coming around, too. In a landmark vote in February, the faculty at Harvard’s College of Arts and Sciences approved a system in which the college would post finished papers in an online repository, available free to all. Authors would still hold copyright and could still publish the papers in traditional journals.
Benjamin Jörissen

"Long Road Behind, Long Road Ahead" - Ph. Rosedale updates SL Mission Statement - 0 views

  • But now we seem to have reached a point where the rapid addition of capabilities is no longer the key challenge, and indeed can be counterproductive.
  • talked about how all too often Linden Lab is now simply ‘in the way’
  • a company of almost 250 people
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  • one new platform feature that still seems really important to deploy given the rising use of SL for education and collaboration, and that is being able to browse the web easily from in-world
  • We aren’t there yet in terms of the interface for virtual worlds. There is now a small new internal team doing nothing else
  • keep opening SL up
  • Virtual worlds, in their broadest form, will be more pervasive that the web, and that means that their systems will need to be open: extended and operated by many people and companies, not just us.
Benjamin Jörissen

Artificial Intelligence: Supercomputer-driven virtual child passes mental milestone - 0 views

  • A virtual child controlled by artificially intelligent software has passed a cognitive test regarded as a major milestone in human development. It could lead to smarter computer games able to predict human players' state of mind. Children typically master the "false belief test" at age 4 or 5. It tests their ability to realise that the beliefs of others can differ from their own, and from reality. The creators of the new character – which they called Eddie – say passing the test shows it can reason about the beliefs of others, using a rudimentary "theory of mind".
  • John Laird, a researcher in computer games and Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, is not overly impressed. "It's not that challenging to get an AI system to do theory of mind," he says.
  • More impressive demonstration, says Laird, would be a character, initially unable to pass the test, that learned how to do so – just as humans do.
Benjamin Jörissen

"What's Missing?" - 3D Internet for Learning Summit (Kauffman/IBM) - 0 views

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    This event will take place February 19th and 20th, 2008, in three spaces simultaneously. We will meet toll free via an operator assisted call, within IBM's Active Worlds based Extraverse and on the web through an interactive wiki environment.

    Registration ends 5pm Central Time on Thursday Feb. 14
Benjamin Jörissen

12 eLearning Predictions for 2009 - 0 views

  • #1 - "Self-Directed Learning" Increases
  • eLearning 2.0 Grows
  • growth in discussions and social networks for collaborative learning
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  • rapid growth in the use of wikis for content presentation
  • organizations who try to create big eLearning 2.0 Strategies will move much slower than organizations who adopt easy to use tools and make tactical use of these tools
  • Pressure for Social Learning Solutions in Corporate Learning
Benjamin Jörissen

Manifest des 9. Weltsozialforums: "Aufruf zur Wiedergewinnung der Gemeingüter" - 0 views

  • Der Aufruf ist eine Einladung zur Debatte! Jede und jeder ist herzlich eingeladen, ihn zu kommentieren, zu kritisieren sowie seine Visionen, Ideen und Erfahrungen in der Auseinandersetzung mit den Gemeingütern mit anderen zu teilen.
  • Wir laden jede und jeden ein, den Aufruf zu unterzeichnen sowie andere zur Unterzeichnung einzuladen und mitzudiskutieren.
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