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IADIS 2004 Conference – Web Based Communities

http://www.iadis.org/wbc2004/committees.asp

I don’t normally blog conference announcements, but this one seemed pretty interesting. The International Association for Development of the Information Society has put out a call for papers for it’s upcoming conference, to be held March 25-26, 2004 in Lisbon, Portugal, on the theme of ‘web based communities.’ As they say on the conference home page, the goal “is to publish and integrate scientific results and act catalytically to the fast developing culture of web communities. The conference invites original papers, review papers, technical reports and case studies on WWW in particular the emerging role of so-called WWW-based Communities.” Portugal in March, hmmm, I can think of worse places to be. – SWL

The Best-Selling Dissertations of 2002

One likely can’t make too much out of this, but I thought it interesting that 3 of the top 10 ‘best selling’ dissertations (as reported by Proquest) related to knowledge management. If you set your filter a little broader, you might even say that about half of these related to learning within organizations. – SWL

-via [ResourceShelf]

Microsoft Office 2003 Opens New Market to Fee-Based Information Services

http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb030317-1.shtml

This article points to what I think we will see as an increasing trend, the integration of desktop apps with third party information services (and in theory, application services through the use of web services). The only thing missing here is a way to pay for this on a per-usage basis – this is a subscription model, which has its place but I think needs to be only one of a number of content/application licensing models that will be needed depending on the tpye of contet/application/usage that is called for. – SWL

originally seen in [http://www.infotoday.com‘s email newsletter]

collectively becoming simultaneously more intelligent and barbaric

from MeatbalWiki

via the global brain is forming

onto to Principia Cybernetica Web

with sidetrips to Global Wisdom’s Bravo Reviewer for Online Editors, taxonomy building and auto-generation software that “combines the efficiency of auto-classification with the expertise of in-house editorial staff, allowing editors to train the auto-classification software within their ordinary workflow”

onto empolis x2x XLink engine that “enables organisations to create links that are more valuable than the information they link to”

I am left spinning.

Everyday I finish my morning reads with an increasingly feverish sense that some sort transcendental collision or singularity is both conceivable, probable and actually happening, and simultaneously a growing dred that we are on the brink of a massive destruction of barbarian proportions (this via news from my old landlord who worked with USAID in Africa that they are starting to evacuate the American embassies in the middle east.) Pray for peace, work for collective intelligence, wisdom and compassion. – SWL

About Me

Scott Leslie is an educational technology researcher and emerging technology analyst. He currently works as the Manager of the BCcampus Learning Resources Centre, a multi-disciplinary ‘open content’ repository. In addition, he researches course management systems, repository and eportfolio software with Dr. Bruce Landon as part of the Western Cooperative on Educational Telecommunications’ (WCET) Edutools.info team.
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