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Twitter

Twitter provides a service for friends, family and co-workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of FAQs to one simple question: What are you doing?

The following video, a commoncraft product, describes how it works.



View Twitter Blog for more information.

The Third Culture

Kevin Kelly describes the Internet as a copy machine.

At its most foundational level, it copies every action, every character, every thought we make while we ride upon it. In order to send a message from one corner of the internet to another, the protocols of communication demand that the whole message be copied along the way several times. IT companies make a lot of money selling equipment that facilitates this ceaseless copying. Every bit of data ever produced on any computer is copied somewhere. The digital economy is thus run on a river of copies. Unlike the mass-produced reproductions of the machine age, these copies are not just cheap, they are free.

So is there anything left that cannot be copied and maybe is better than free?


According to Kelly there exist eight categories of "intangible value", "eight things that are better than free", eight uncopyable values. Kelly calls these qualities generatives that add value to free copies, and "therefore are something that can be sold".

Eight generatives better than free

1. Immediacy


2. Personalization


3. Interpretation


4. Authenticity


5. Accessibility


6. Embodiment


7. Patronage


8. Findability
   

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Ranking and Mapping Scientific Knowledge

The Eigenfactor site is a good source for ranking and mapping science journals. It ranks journals as much as Google ranks websites. It is completely free and completely searchable.

People of Earth....

Through the Internet people are discovering and inventing new ways to share relevant knowledge with blinding speed.

The Cluetrain Manifesto and its 95 theses on powerful global market conversations by Christopher Locke, Rick Levine, Doc Searl and David Weinberger.

Project Management

Tomorrow I will give a seminar on project management at Danube University Krems.

Adapt yourselves to the changes of transformation and simplify your projects!

Read and follow the instructions of the ePMbook.

New Year's Resolutions

Read about the most life-enhancing New Year's Resolutions.
What have you changed your mind about? Why?

View the edge annual question - 2008.

Relaxing...finally

Have you ever wondered about relaxing in Web2.0? Yes?
Well, just go to the relaxing area (text in German) in Web2.0.

Science Blogs

Will you remember 2007 as the year Open Access Publishing arrived?

Explore the top science stories of the past year in Science Blogs.

Digital Footprints

Internet users are becoming more aware of their digital footprints states a new study by Pew Internet & American Life Project . But most of them are not concerned about the amount of personal data available online.

And of course this raises questions such as: how much of personal data should be available online? Do we need total individual transparency for digitally managing our indentities? Which measures can be taken to avoid open access to our personal data?

More information (in German) at ORF.science.

Critical study on Google

Hermann Maurer carried out a study (PDF, 1.33 GB) on dangers and opportunities posed by large search engines, particularly Google. There is more (in German) at ORF.science.

I'm very happy ... well, I have to say proud for succeding to get an interview with Hermann Maurer for my PhD thesis (dissertation).

The rise of the implicit

Listen to the Defrag talk on the implicit by David Weinberger. He is the author of various "fantastic and outstanding" books focusing on the way the Internet is changing knowledge acquisition, communication, human relations and society.

Why are blogs such a big deal?

The following video, a commoncraft product, is a response to the previously asked question.

Nietzsche was just another monkey?

Visiting Bora Zivkovic's ScienceBlog I came just across this video. It's really worth watching.

Some of the monkeys read Nietzsche. Some of the monkeys argue about Nietzsche...

CitationRank

"Citations are the currency of research", argues Erik Duval in his post on citations in the field of Technology Enhanced Learning.

In this respect he raises the following questions:

• which of your papers has been cited most often?
• who has cited you most often?
• which papers cited a particular publication of yours?
• whether more and more or less and less people are citing you over the years?
• whose citing behavior is close to yours?
• which conference or journal contains most citations of your papers?
• which conference or journal contains your cites most often?

Moreover he discusses some Searching Tools for scientists:

• PubMed


• arXiv


• Web of Science


• DBLP


• Google Scholar


• Bibisonomy


• Citeseer

A Vision of Students Today

Another fascinating video by Michael Wesch in collaboration with 200 students at Kansas State University.

The video shows a summary of the main characteristics of today's students.

What makes a Great Presentation?

How often did you lose your interest before the speaker had even come halfway? Was it because of the subject of the talk? Was it the way the speaker presented it?

Actually, a great presentation is a combination of several elements.

You may download my files Presentation I (pdf, 82,0 kB) and Presentation II (pdf, 79,3 kB) for more information on successful presentation skills.

Don't miss this talk in German by Prof. Dr. Beger.
I consider it a great presentation.

... and there's another one by Prof. Dr. Boltz.

GMW Congress Hamburg

The motto of this year's GMW congress, 12 - 14 September 2007 in Hamburg was : reinventing learning - rethinking university.

After two brilliant opening keynotes by Prof. Dr. Beger and Prof. Dr. Boltz aspects of - didactic imagination, creative forms of evaluation and quality development, Higher Education reforms: approaches, strategies, concepts - were being dealt with from different perspectives of learning, teaching and organization.

More in German...

One of the highlights was the Medida-Prix-Award in the categories "Digital media in academic teaching" and "Academic development with digital media".

Prof. Dr. Rolf Schulmeister was honoured for his scientific work and I just did it my way. I honoured him in acryl, 120 x 90.

Cyberscience

"Cyberscience - it is already taking place - will be different from traditional science. "

Michael Nentwich, director of the Institute of Technology Assessment at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, describes and analyses in his book the usage of ICT (Information and Communication Technology) in science.

This book not only draws a portrait of "Research in the Age of the Internet", but also assesses the various impacts of the New Media on academic activity and discusses the impacts for future research policies.

So we`ve already got some answers to the questions I posed in my previous article.
But the digital world is a rapidly changing one. Isn`t it? ;-)