This is interesting. I pass the whole newsletter along,
but I am finding the first article about personal
knowledge mapping interesting. (01)
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OLDaily November 28, 2003 (04)
by Stephen Downes (05)
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Personal Knowledge Mapping And The Concept Of Data
Emergence (07)
Some worthwhile observations on where previous knowledge
management initiatives have gone wrong. "Any Web site
should become nothing more than a set of raw data feeds
while knowledge workers would be provided with a personal
software tool that would allow to: 1) maintain a database
of personal information. 2) selectively share that data
with anybody I choose. 3) autodiscover new sources of
content. 4) completely control how I view and interact with
the content sources I've chosen. This is the right
approach." In other words, "Content providers should not be
trying to guess how I want to interact with their
information. They should just be providing the information.
I will customize my experience as I see fit." I think
there's a lot of truth to this. Give people <i>tools</i>
and the freedom to use them. By Luigi Canali De Rossi,
Robin Good, November 28, 2003
<http://www.masternewmedia.org/2003/11/28/personal_knowledge_mapping_and_the.htm> (08)
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Access Barriers in Africa (010)
Peter Suber summarizes this nicely: "While there are <a
href="http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/develop.shtml";
class="Troll">many opportunities</a> for African
universities to receive free or discounted electronic
subscriptions to scientific journals, <a
href="http://allafrica.com/stories/200311120795.html";
class="Troll">many universities are unaware of them</a> or
prevented from taking full advantage of them. That's the
result of an <a href="http://www.inasp.org.uk/";
class="Troll">INASP</a> survey conducted by Sara Gwynn and
revealed at a November 8 seminar of librarians at a meeting
of the West African branch of the Standing Conference of
African Universities in Accra, Ghana." By Peter Suber, Open
Access News, November 28, 2003
<http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2003_11_23_fosblogarchive.html#a107002923107846295> (011)
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Liability and Federated Identity: Much Ado About Nothing? (013)
This is arcane and mysterious business, but so it the stuff
behind automated tellers, and look at what an impact
they've had. And it's pretty much the same issue: "I
guarantee you this is Sally; if I'm wrong, I pay you." Why
is this important? Well, federated learning object
repository networks are emerging, and guarantees of
identity are needed to keep the system secure. Commercial
content providers require this, because they want to
control the use of their materials. But can one system
really guarantee the identity of a user to another. In high
security, high stakes systems like banking, sure. But
learning? This article gives you a taste of the road you
will travel, if you go in that direction. By Carol Coye
Benson, Glenbrook Partners, November, 2003
<http://www.glenbrook.com/opinions/federated-liability.html> (014)
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Pitch (016)
Pitch has launched. I'm not sure if the launch is formal
yet, but you can access the online magazine and view three
articles, including an <a
href="http://www.pitchjournal.org/readarticle?articleid=0010698913846486968";
class="Troll">introductory editorial</a> by David Wiley and
Brent Lambert, an article from George Siemens on <a
href="http://www.pitchjournal.org/readarticle?articleid=0010698939068833029";
class="Troll">open source content</a> in education, and one
of my articles, <a
href="http://www.pitchjournal.org/readarticle?articleid=0010698920954831436";
class="Troll">The Regina Declaration</a>. Now what's really
interesting about Pitch is the peer review system. "Pitch
uses a democratic method of peer review where all readers
participate in the review process. Instead of sending
submitted articles away for 12 months of secret review by
three individuals, Pitch allows your peers to review your
work. In Pitch everyone 'pitches in' to rate papers
submitted to the journal." Kudos to David and Brent for
getting this off the ground, and my thanks to them for
letting me be a part of it. I look forward to the
discussion that will no doubt follow. By David Wiley &
Brent Lambert, Pitch, November 27, 2003
<http://pitchjournal.org/> (017)
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Natural Deselection: Not Even Microsoft Will Last Forever,
but They Plan to Try (019)
Good article advancing one theory about Microsoft's
proposed DRM system (I say 'one theory' because I think
this is only an aspect of the overall strategy, not the
whole thing as the article implies). "Imagine a remote
procedure call that goes out every time you are online. The
RPC doesn't do anything but act as a key. The call goes out
to some Microsoft server, but it is only returned if your
OS and applications are legit and up-to-date. This is how
piracy goes away, and how Microsoft plans to make more
money by turning us all into Windows subscribers whether we
want to or not. We'll see it first when you try to play a
bootleg MP3 or that VCD image downloaded from Finland, but
eventually your system won't work at all if you aren't on
some kind of support contract and Microsoft gets paid
twice." By Robert X. Cringley, I, Cringley, November 20,
2003
<http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20031120.html> (020)
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W4 k-collector (022)
>From the web page: "k-collector is an enterprise news
aggregator that leverages the power of shared topics to
present new ways of finding and combining the real
knowledge in your organisation." A lot like <a
href="http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/xml/edu_rss.cgi";
class="Troll">Edu_RSS</a>, this website aggregates RSS
feeds and displays the results as a series of topic feeds.
I like the 'what', 'where', 'who', 'when' organization of
topics (hence 'W4') - especially since I'm one of the
people listed in the 'who'. I ran into access problems
trying to explore the site, so you may have to be
persistent with this link. By Various Authors, Evectors,
November, 2003
<http://w4.evectors.it/> (023)
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