tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74481602024-03-07T23:32:54.180-04:00Seb's mailboxIn which <a href=http://seb.notlong.com/>the blogger</a> answers email inquiries of public interest.Sebastienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15951786591785800320noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7448160.post-1125575339632218892005-09-01T08:48:00.000-03:002005-09-01T09:02:35.710-03:00Books on personal publishing and their impact on the publishing industry (Eelco Ferwerda)<p style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);" class="mobile-post">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br /></p> <p style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);" class="mobile-post">On 8/31/05, eelco.ferwerda wrote:<br /><br />My compliments for your <a href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0110772/stories/2002/10/03/personalKnowledgePublishingAndItsUsesInResearch.html">fine work on the notion of personal knowledge publishing</a>. I'm writing an article about the future of scholarly publishing, and one of the points I'll make is that the current publishing models might undergo drastic changes due to the adoption of blogs and comparable software.<br />I'm looking for a good, recent book on this subject: personal web publishing and its impact on the traditional publishing industry. Can you recommend a book?<br />If not: what's a good book on personal web publishing/blogging as a means for knowledge sharing in scholarly environments?<br /><br />sincerely,<br /><br />Eelco Ferwerda<br /></p> <p style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);" class="mobile-post">Amsterdam University Press<br /><br /></p> <p class="mobile-post">From: Sebastien Paquet<br />Date: Aug 31, 2005 11:59 AM<br /></p> <p class="mobile-post">Hello Eelco</p> <p class="mobile-post">For the impact on news publishing I warmly recommend<br />http://www.hypergene.net/wemedia/weblog.php<br /></p><p class="mobile-post">http://wethemedia.oreilly.com/ might be good too.</p><p class="mobile-post">For the impact on the world of publishing at large, I'm afraid I don't<br />have a good reference. I'm not sure there is yet a critical mass of<br />people in the publishing industry who are wondering about that to make<br />a sellable book about it. You could ask the authors of this (French)<br />weblog on publishing: http://lafeuille.blogspot.com/. Look at their<br />blogroll too.<br />The most heat re: book publishing right now centers around the<br />wikipedia-britannica rivalry, which is more about collaborative than<br />personal publishing.</p><p class="mobile-post">Re: personal web publishing/blogging as a means for knowledge sharing<br />in scholarly environments, the literature is still fairly thin and<br />there isn't a book out yet as far as I know. You could hunt down the<br />papers from the blogtalk conference, and maybe read relevant chapters<br />of my thesis - http://radio.weblogs.com/0110772/2003/05/17.html.</p><p class="mobile-post">Be sure to look at Odlyzko's excellent papers. The open access<br />movement should be on your radar too; you could start at<br />http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm</p><p class="mobile-post">There are a few linkful del.icio.us bins of mine that you may be<br />interested in perusing:</p><p class="mobile-post">http://del.icio.us/sebpaquet/book<br />http://del.icio.us/sebpaquet/SocialSoftware%2Bacademia<br />http://del.icio.us/sebpaquet/ScholarlyCommunication<br />http://del.icio.us/sebpaquet/KnowledgeSharing</p><p class="mobile-post">Can I blog your question and my answer on http://sebsmailbox.blogspot.com/ ?</p><p class="mobile-post">Cheers<br />Seb</p><p class="mobile-post"><span style="font-style: italic;">(I should've mentioned the numerous books on blogging. </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/listmania/list-browse/-/UBFJRMEFZ9KQ/102-7363143-6487355">Here's one list</a><span style="font-style: italic;">.)</span><br /><br /></p>Sebastienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15951786591785800320noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7448160.post-1088296128327807652004-06-26T21:28:00.000-03:002004-06-27T07:50:26.673-03:00Ridiculously Easy Group Forming (Juan Arellano)On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 juan wrote:
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<br />> Hi
<br />>
<br />> I´d like to know about what has happened with the ideas you wrote in the article "making group-forming ridiculously easy", sice it was written some time ago, i think maybe some of them has come real.
<br />>
<br />> I live in Perú, and i´m very interested in the blogosphere thing, and how to develop it here. We´re not so many bloggers but there is a litle group with aims to make things. Our common sites are http://www.blogsperu.com y http://www.blogsperu.org, and in the near future they´ll be just one site.
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<br />> sorry for bad written things, but i don´t speak english, just Castellano (Español). (but i do read english).
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<br />> thanx for the answer, by
<br />>
<br />> Juan Arellano
<br />>
<br />> http://arellano.bloxus.com
<br />> http://arellanos.blogspot.com
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<br />Hi Juan,
<br />
<br />Wonderful things happened since I wrote this. A guy in New Zealand,
<br />Phillip Pearson, built a site to make the ideas real. It is at
<br /><a href="http://topicexchange.com">http://topicexchange.com</a>
<br />
<br />Many groups have been created on the exchange. Some of the most active are
<br />in Spanish:
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<br /><a href="http://topicexchange.com/t/directorio_blogs_hispanos/">http://topicexchange.com/t/directorio_blogs_hispanos/</a>
<br /><a href="http://topicexchange.com/t/bitacoras/">http://topicexchange.com/t/bitacoras/</a>
<br />
<br />If you want to create one to collect Peru-related posts, you are very
<br />welcome! Also add it to the list at
<br /><a href="http://topicexchange.com/wiki.pl?WorldWide">http://topicexchange.com/wiki.pl?WorldWide</a>
<br />
<br />I've written a <a href="http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~paquetse/publications/PaquetS_TopicSharingInfrastructure-2004.pdf ">"scientific" article on this experiment</a> (pdf, 500k).
<br />
<br />One of the things that are missing is an automatic way to enable blog tools
<br />without trackback to participate. I've just got an idea that I might try,
<br />based on a recent experiment done at NMC 2004.
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<br />My brother went to Peru last year. He thought you guys are very cool.
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<br />Cheers
<br />
<br />Sébastien
<br />Sebastienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15951786591785800320noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7448160.post-1088295760642569962004-06-26T21:22:00.000-03:002005-03-22T15:56:09.863-04:00Re: Help regarding study on community of practiceDate: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 19:54:38 -0400 (EDT)<br />From: Sebastien Paquet<br />To: Albert Delgado<br />Subject: Re: Help regarding study on community of practice<br /><br />On Sat, 26 Jun 2004, Albert Delgado wrote:<br /><br />> Seb,<br />><br />><br />> Al, Can I put your query and my answer on my public mailbox?<br />><br />> Sure!<br />><br />> Here is my new question. I am out here in Washingtons state at a<br />professional writing retreat. <br />><br />> How can online communication and publishing tools support and extend the<br />> conversion of teachers involved in Communities of Practice.<br /><br />If by conversion you mean conversation, I guess the #1 thing is that it makes previously isolated efforts visible to one another, enabling a stronger network to emerge where more good and relevant ideas can reach any participant with very little additional investment.<br /><br />Seb<br /><br />PS Can I assume I can publish Q&As like these in the future, unless you<br />indicate otherwise?Sebastienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15951786591785800320noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7448160.post-1088295035460077592004-06-12T21:06:00.000-03:002005-09-01T10:42:02.516-03:00Communities of practice for educators (Al Delgado)Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 21:16:19 -0500<br />From: Albert Delgado<br />To: Sebastien Paquet<br />Subject: Help regarding study on community of practice<br /><br />Hello Seb,<br /><br />I was wondering if you could lead me to some resources in<br />regards to communities of practice among educators. We are six<br />elementary school teachers at one school and 5 professors .<br /><br />My basic study is the development of a community of practice<br />around a Teacher action research group(s). The group is<br />looking at ESL Student Discourse development. We officially<br />start in September.<br /><br />Second, to see if web services such as a blog, wiki and scout<br />portal toolkit, IM will support the community in its mission<br />over time.<br /><br />I am looking at the history of of inquiry at our school among<br />educators.<br />I have set up a blog at http://www.learningcommons.net and<br />http://www.learningcommons.net/discourse/<br /><br />I will have to "show" and "sell" the benefits of using<br />disruptive technology.<br /><br />Any suggestions regarding communities of practice and<br />disruptive technology to enhance the work of said groups would<br />be very welcome.<br /><br />Al<br /><hr /><br /><br />Al:<br /><br />I know little on CoPs among educators. I don't think they're very<br />widespread, though they ought to. I'd say the Edblogosphere is one of the<br />most visible. In Higher Ed there are http://www.aahe.org/cop.htm<br /><br />This should help -<br /><br /><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20030608211506/http://webtools.cityu.edu.hk/news/newslett/onlinecomm.htm">http://web.archive.org/web/20030608211506/http://webtools.cityu.edu.hk/news/newslett/onlinecomm.htm</a><br /><br />> My basic study is the development of a community of practice around a<br />> Teacher action research group(s). The group is looking at ESL Student<br />> Discourse development. We officially start in September.<br /><br />Sounds like jargon to me. :)<br /><br />> Second, to see if web services such as a blog, wiki and scout portal<br />> toolkit, IM will support the community in its mission over time.<br /><br />For sure, as long as the educators are not afraid to try them... an IRC<br />channel could be fun too. If they're not very techy a mailing list might<br />be more likely to have high participation. If using a blog at least you<br />need email updates. you can use a wiki as a repository of the useful<br />stuff. Publicise the wiki regularly on the list.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/community/MailingListThenWiki">http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/community/MailingListThenWiki</a><br /><br />> I am looking at the history of of inquiry at our school among educators.<br /><br />> I have set up a blog at http://www.learningcommons.net and<br />> http://www.learningcommons.net/discourse/<br />><br />> I will have to "show" and "sell" the benefits of using disruptive<br />> technology.<br /><br />To funders or teachers? It's a very different sale.<br /><br />> Any suggestions regarding communities of practice and disruptive<br />> technology to enhance the work of said groups would be very welcome.<br /><br />The wwwtools backlog is the single best thing I could think of to sell to<br />funders. For teachers you'd need conversation and live demos. My 2c.<br /><br /><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20040626115438/http://webtools.cityu.edu.hk/news/newslett/">http://web.archive.org/web/20040626115438/http://webtools.cityu.edu.hk/news/newslett/</a><br /><br />Cheers, sorry for the late response<br />SebSebastienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15951786591785800320noreply@blogger.com