Learning with the Fang

Some things of interest noticed in the second week of July, 2008.
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Timo Hannay – Nature Publishing Group
Extract from a three part documentary series on web based publishing business models.

Roughly ten minutes of snippets from podcasts I have heard recently that might be relevant to Higher Education. My aim is to [...]

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I reckon the trend toward more open research is both inevitable and beneficial, but methinks the journey will be both messy and at times painfully destructive. Working for Microsoft during the open source revolution left me with scars that twinge when I see familiar patterns playing out in the scientific research community.

Watching chemists like Jean [...]

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A new class of personal devices with built in 802.1x ‘Commodity WiFi’ will soon change the way smart institutions think about providing infrastructure for ICTs.
For several years now I have been carrying around a collection of devices with built in wireless connectivity – laptops, phones, PDA’s and most recently the iPod touch. The one [...]

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