I just took a quick look at The Learner’s Library As far as I can tell, the service breaks down as follows:
LL contains a collection of academic journal articles that have been pre-cleared for copyright.
There’s a search interface to that collection that includes what appears at first glance to be pretty decent natural language search.
Searches [...]
A while back I referred to Shibboleth–the idea of putting an arbitrary string into a post for search engine recognition. “Blog chalking” apparently uses this technique to map the blogosphere to terrestrial geography. Basically, you enter geographical and demographic information into the Shibboleth generator. It spits out a string which is encoded in an HTML [...]
TiddlyWiki has some unusual affordances that makes it suited to somewhat different tasks than other wikis I’ve seen (though I remind you that I am a wiki newbie). To begin with, the display allows you to call up a number of posts (which the developer calls “tiddles”) on the same page. This makes it well-suited [...]
Open Source advocate Eric Raymond once famously wrote, “Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.” After the whole Dan Rather distributed debunking episode, I’m wondering if the same could be true of all (or, at least, many) problems with fact-checking public statements. This would include articles in the mainstream press, of course, but it could [...]
Gilad Ravid and Sheizaf Rafaeli’s new piece in FirstMonday, “Asynchronous Discussion Groups as Small World and Scale Free Networks“, analyzes a voluntary learning community that develops on a university’s LMS. These are all students who are (apparently) registered for on-campus web-enhanced courses with strictly voluntary web-enhanced components. Interestingly, the study analyzed networking for the entire [...]
