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The Universe Is Not Flat >>> Let The Conversations Continue >>>
by gerrymck 19 Aug '10

19 Aug '10

Preface In April 2005, the first edition of The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century >>> "... an international bestselling book by Thomas Friedman that analyzes globalization, primarily in the early 21st century [was published]. The title is a metaphor for viewing the world as a level playing field in terms of commerce, where all competitors have an equal opportunity. As the first edition cover illustration indicates, the title also alludes to the perceptual shift required for countries, companies and individuals to remain competitive in a global market where historical and geographical divisions are becoming increasingly irrelevant." While some may concur with Friedman, the World and the Universe Is Not Flat, As They Say In France >>> Au Contraire >>>. The World And The Universe At Any And All Levels and Dimensions Exhibit Dynamic Variation / Diversity / Etc. ; It /They Are Not Monolithic Or A Single Dynamic Phenomenon >>> The Well-Known Bell (And Others) Curves Graphically Represent The Wide Variation in Nature >>> Part I "In probability theory and statistics, the normal distribution, or Gaussian distribution, is an absolutely continuous probability distribution whose cumulants of all orders above two are zero. The graph of the associated probability density function is “bell”-shaped, with peak at the mean, and is known as the Gaussian function or bell curve." [Image] The Red Line Is The Standard Normal Distribution As In Life, As There Is (More Or Less On Ther Internet/Web), There Are Some Individuals That Are More Active/Engaged Then Others >>> Part II Jakob Nielsen, The Smartest Person On The Web, In An October 2006 Alertbox Posting Documents What Many Have Probably Observed >>> Participation Inequality: Encouraging More Users to Contribute Summary: In most online communities, 90% of users are lurkers who never contribute, 9% of users contribute a little, and 1% of users account for almost all the action. All large-scale, multi-user communities and online social networks that rely on users to contribute content or build services share one property: most users don't participate very much. Often, they simply lurk in the background. When you plot the amount of activity for each user, the result is a Zipf curve, which shows as a straight line in a log-log diagram. In contrast, a tiny minority of users usually accounts for a disproportionately large amount of the content and other system activity. User participation often more or less follows a 90-9-1 rule: • 90% of users are lurkers (i.e., read or observe, but don't contribute). • 9% of users contribute from time to time, but other priorities dominate their time. • 1% of users participate a lot and account for most contributions: it can seem as if they don't have lives because they often post just minutes after whatever event they're commenting on occurs. Soooooo ......... In A NutShell > A Few List Members Contribute Most Of The Postings To Any Given e-List AND I Am Among Those Few >>> Indeed > Overall My Blogs Are Ranked In The Top Five (5) Perecent And A Few In The Top One (1) Percent And Higher (Based On Technorati Rankings) AND BTW: Traffic On My Blogs Is Much/Much Greater Than SiteMeter Indicates >>> The New Blogger In Draft Stats Document Significant Visitation >>> For Example >>> Since June 1 2010, There Have Been More 140,000 Collective PageViews Of Postings On My _Spectrum > Mobile Learning, Libraries, And Technologies_ Blog As Of Today (08-19-10) Soooooo ......... Please Don't Diss Me For Being Actively Engaged >>> Or Because I Have Broad Interests Believe It Or Not > I Do Only Post Items That I Believe Are Relevant Or Could / Might /Should Be Of Interest To My Colleagues It's Not About Me : Many Of My Posts Highlight The Work Of Others >>> BTW: While The Percentage Of Our Colleagues Who Read E-Lists Is Declining, In Favor Of Social Media > WebJunction Survey > Library Staff Report Their Use of Online Tools > 2009 vs. 2010 > Academic vs. Public [snip] A Significant Portion Continue To Do >>> Soooooo ......... If One Does Not Wish To Receive My Posting, There Are Several Options As I Note In A Previous Post DeDup > Removal Of Duplicate E-Mail Postings > An Idea Who Time Has Come? [ http://ref-notes.blogspot.com/2010/08/dedup-removal-of-duplicate-e-mail.html] While I Do Believe In Leprechauns [:-)] (And Actally Did See Their Houses On Inishmore, The Largest Of The Aran Islands, One Of The Island Groups Off The Coast Of County Galway, Ireland, In 2009), I Don't Believe In Silos. Let The Conversations Continue >>> [ http://bit.ly/9BkgWt ] JOY ! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University Library Ames IA 50011 Follow Me On Twitter > http://twitter.com/GMcKBlogs "It's Not About Publication; It's About Ideas" [ http://bit.ly/bb6uW7 ]

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Self-representation online update
by Ted Coopman 19 Aug '10

19 Aug '10

All, The hits just keep coming! I have added a "last updated" notation at the top of the page since people keep sending me stuff. http://comm181.pbworks.com/Self-Representation+Online+Sources -TED -- Ted M. Coopman Ph.D. Lecturer Department of Communication Studies Department of Television, Radio, Film, & Theatre San Jose State University

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Self-representation online resource list
by Ted Coopman 19 Aug '10

19 Aug '10

All, Thanks for a great response for references on Self-Representation - I think I crushed by colleague with information! I have compiled the references I received and put them on a page for an online course (Internet Communications) this coming term. They are roughly in APA. If you notice any typos or other issues (I just slammed this out) please feel free to contact me. http://comm181.pbworks.com/Self-Representation%20Online%20Sources -TED -- Ted M. Coopman Ph.D. Lecturer Department of Communication Studies Department of Television, Radio, Film, & Theatre San Jose State University

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CFP: Digital Memories (panel) March 2011
by Aimée Morrison 19 Aug '10

19 Aug '10

Digital Memories 3rd Global Conference Monday 14th March – Wednesday 16th March 2011 Prague, Czech Republic I am proposing a panel for this conference to fit one of the general conference themes, “Digital Personal and Community Memory”: “More ways to remember, fewer ways to forget: externalising memory in social media” We are share significant amounts of personal information through social media. As time passes, it becomes clear that we are not simply publicising the activities of our daily lives for the immediate gratifcation of our networks of social contacts—we are also creating detailed, significant, and durable archives of the activities, images, and ideas of our daily lives, a kind of real-time autobiography that persists and accumulates. The repercussions of these practices are not entirely clear and this panel asks, from a variety of perspectives, “What happens when today’s status updates become tomorrow’s public, digital memoir?” Topics might include: conflicts between personal and work life, searchability, how to ‘live down’ a prior Internet life, how memory is restructured by this kind of archiving, community-formation, and more. I invite any interested researchers to send me 300 word abstracts for possible inclusion on this three-paper panel, via email addressed to ahm(a)uwaterloo.ca. (My own paper will address the reconfiguration of memory prompted by personal diary-style blogs of long duration (>3 years) and the peculiar frisson writers can feel, being surprised by content drawn from their own archives, leading to exclamations like ‘I totally forgot that, but now I totally remember.’) Full details about the conference itself can be found at the website: http://bit.ly/r48ej Aimée Morrison Assistant Professor Dept. of English Language and Literature University of Waterloo Waterloo, ON, CANADA

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If you haven't booked your flight for IR11 yet, here's a deal
by Katy E. Pearce 19 Aug '10

19 Aug '10

Via travelzoo.com $317 -- Scandinavia Fares on Sale from L.A. (each way) http://www.travelzoo.com/top20/15290576-871623/ Source: Scandinavian Airlines (if you click through there are more options than L.A. and there are flights to GOT.)

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Academic Career Development Workshop at AoIR IR 11 Gothenburg 20 Oct 2010
by Marcus Foth 19 Aug '10

19 Aug '10

Academic Career Development Workshop for Research Students and Early Career Academics in conjunction with Internet Research 11, Gothenburg, Sweden, 20 October 2010 http://ir11.aoir.org/program/pre-conference-workshops/ DESCRIPTION For research students and early career academics, universities offer resources that help develop their research skills – for example, critical theory development, literature reviews, research methods, data analysis, writing skills, etc. However, building a successful career in academia poses a wide range of new challenges in addition to the pure academic craft of research. The resources and resilience one needs in order to shape an academic career path often appear ambiguous, particularly in the innately transformative field of Internet research. In response to feedback from AoIR members, this full-day workshop seeks to address this concern by offering a supportive and constructive environment to discuss career development related issues that are of specific interest to research students and early career academics. The first half of the workshop is devoted to the process of transitioning into research student training and supervision. In the second half, we will look at issues of academic leadership. The workshop chairs, along with invited senior academic researchers, will share with the participants some of their off-the-record insights of their career development milestones and the related decisions that have shaped their career paths. The workshop chairs will act as facilitators and moderators who will encourage the participants to join the discussion and share their own views and experiences with the rest of the group. The goal is to establish a peer support atmosphere that bridges disciplinary, cultural, and regional differences in order to distill the common skills and capabilities that are necessary to identify and seize opportunities for shaping one’s own career trajectory in academia. The main topics of discussion for each session will be negotiated with the participants on the day. This is to make the workshop as relevant and practical to the participants as possible. FEES & LOGISTICS · Date: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 · Time: 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. · Location: Chalmers student union building, room TBA. · Fee: 330 SEK · Lunch and coffee included. · Draft schedule on the facebook event page at http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=110293655687140 SUBMISSION & PARTICIPATION The number of participants in this workshop is limited to 25. If you are interested in attending, please send an email by 1 Sep 2010 to both workshop organisers with a single PDF file that contains: · Your name, · Affiliation, · 200 word biography, · 200 word statement expressing your career aspirations, and what you hope to get out of your participation in this workshop. CONTACT Associate Professor Marcus Foth Email: m.foth AT qut.edu.au Web: www.urbaninformatics.net Dr. Jaz Hee-jeong Choi Email: h.choi AT qut.edu.au Web: www.nicemustard.com #ir11 #AoIR -- Assoc. Prof. Marcus Foth Principal Research Fellow Urban Informatics Research Lab Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation Queensland University of Technology (CRICOS No. 00213J) 130 Victoria Park Road, Brisbane QLD 4059, Australia Phone +61 7 313 x88772 - Fax x88238 - Office K506, KG m.foth(a)qut.edu.au - http://www.urbaninformatics.net/

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CFP: 3rd International Workshop on Social Data on the Web (SDoW2010)
by Uldis Bojars 19 Aug '10

19 Aug '10

Please forward to colleagues who may be interested. Submission deadline: August 27, 2010 http://sdow.semanticweb.org/2010/ =============================================================== 3rd International Workshop on Social Data on the Web (SDoW2010) November 8, 2010 co-located with ISWC 2010 Shanghai (China) Paper submission: August 27, 2010 http://sdow.semanticweb.org/2010/ =============================================================== The 3rd international workshop Social Data on the Web (SDoW2010), co-located with the 9th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2010). aims to bring together researchers, developers and practitioners involved in semantically-enhancing social media websites, as well as academics researching more formal aspect of these interactions between the Semantic Web and Social Web. Important dates --------------- * Submission deadline: Aug 27, 2010 * Notification of acceptance: Sep 17, 2010 * Camera-ready paper submission Oct 19, 2010 * Camera-ready proceedings: Oct 15, 2010 * Workshop: Nov 08, 2010 Description ----------- It is now widely agreed that the Semantic Web and the Social Web can benefit from each other. On the one hand, the speed at which data is being created on the Social Web is growing at exponential rate, as it offers users a variety of applications for rapidly publishing and disseminating information to a community of interest: blogs, wikis, microblogging, status notification, etc. On the other hand, the Semantic Web plays a crucial role in the management of all this networked knowledge, providing new ways to share and co-operate on the Web using formal semantics. However, while both can be efficiently combined to take into account the social aspect and the semantics of this data, there are still a variety of important issues and research questions that must be considered regarding data that arises from social interactions, such as scalability, reasoning, privacy, context-awarness, security, etc. Following the success of SDoW2008 and SDoW2009, this workshop aims to discuss techniques, methods and applications that are appearing and that are required to manage the data from the Social Web using semantic technologies, taking into account social relations, information overload, aggregations and summaries, trust and privacy, and other related research topics. Topics of interest ------------------ Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Applications and tools using Social Semantic Web technologies * Creating RDF-based knowledge using social media services * Data Portability and Social Network Portability * Emerging semantic platforms for the Social Web * Enriching Social Web with semantic data - RDFa, microformats and other approaches * Linked Data on the Social Web - providing linked data from social media sites * Mining and analysis of Social Data * Ontologies for the Social Web - developing, using and extending lightweight ontologies/vocabularies for social media sites * Querying and mining social semantic data * Policies, authentication, security, and trust within collaborative scenarios * Producing Semantic Web data from social software applications * Reasoning for Social Web applications * Semantic blogging, wikis and social networks * Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities (SIOC) * Social and semantic bookmarking, tagging and annotation * Using Semantic Web technologies for Social Data integration Submissions ----------- The following types of contributions are welcomed: * Full technical papers, up to 12 pages. * Short technical papers and position papers, up to 6 pages. * Posters and Demos, 2-3 pages with a description of the application, ideally accompanied with a link to an online demo. Workshop Chairs --------------- * Alexandre Passant, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland * John Breslin, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland * Sergio Fernández, Fundación CTIC, Spain * Uldis Bojārs, University of Latvia, Latvia Program Committee ----------------- * Alessandra Toninelli, INRIA, France * Axel Ngonga, Universität Leipzig, Germany * Dan Brickley, FOAF project & Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands * Daniel Schwabe, PUC Rio, Brasil * Diego Berrueta, Fundación CTIC, Spain * Emanuele Della Valle, Politecnico di Milano, Italy * Fabien Gandon, INRIA, France * Gunnar Aastrand Grimnes, DFKI Knowledge Management Lab, Germany * Harry Halpin, University of Edinburgh, UK * Hideaki Takeda, National Institute of Informatics, Japan * Jose E. Labra, University of Oviedo, Spain * Knud Möller, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland * Libby Miller, BBC, UK * Marta Sabou, MODUL University Vienna, UK * Matthew Rowe, Univ. Of Sheffield, UK * Michael Hausenblas, DERI, NUI Galway Ireland * Olaf Hartig, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany * Pablo Mendes, Kno.e.sis, Wright State University, USA * Philipp Kaerger, L3S, Germany * Richard Cyganiak, DERI, NUI Galway Ireland * Sebastian Tramp, Universität Leipzig, Germany * Sheila Kinsella, DERI, NUI Galway * Sofia Angeletou, KMi, The Open University, UK * Steve Harris, Garlik, UK * Yves Raimond, BBC, UK * Zhongli Ding, Google, USA

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Self-representation online
by Ted Coopman 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

All, A colleague has asked me about the latest published research on self-representation online. Not my area, but I thought I would access the collective knowledge for some quality interesting suggestions - journal articles if you do not happen to have pdfs or links to other materials. Send off list. I'll compile and post them for everyone. Thanks, -TED -- Ted M. Coopman Ph.D. Lecturer Department of Communication Studies Department of Television, Radio, Film, & Theatre San Jose State University

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Question about reimbursing participants doing electronic surveys?
by Reusche, Christian Fernando 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

Hi, I'm designing a set of web surveys for research purposes to assess mental health literacy. I will submit my protocol through IRB, and subjects will be protected and de-identified. The question I have is with respect to compensation. Participants will have a verify code, and I wanted to compensate them with an electronic gift card after completion of the surveys. My idea was to call the participant to confirm the verify code, and after verification forward them the gift card. I wanted to know if this protocol seemed suitable, or what protocols are there for compensating participants after completion of an online survey? If you have any insight into this issue, I would appreciate it. Thanks, Christian Reusche

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Re: [Air-L] Question about reimbursing participants doing electronic surveys?
by Nicole Ellison 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

Hi, I'm curious about the practice of only compensating participants who complete a survey. Don't most IRBs require that participants have the option of refusing to answer any questions they want, without jeopardizing their compensation? I think if you do this, you should be sure that no questions are mandatory (meaning the participant can't move forward unless something is in the field). We typically include a question towards the end of the survey, asking participants for their email address if they'd like to be entered in a raffle, but with a note saying their address won't be paired with their data. And seconding Fred's note about Amazon gift certificates (which can be emailed) as being much easier than other options such as itunes. N

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