By Stephen Downes
December 10, 2003
Plagiarism and Cheating
Revisited
The author summarizes (accurately): "I
have gathered together some old posts [to the WWWDEV
mailing list] that I have done in the past and uncovered
some additional websites that focus on plagiarism, cheating
and copyright violation in academic circles as the end of
semesters and term paper grading time is upon the world of
education in many places." The result is a very nice
listing of links on the subject. By David P. Dillard,
WWWDEV, Devember 5, 2003
[Refer][Research][Reflect]
Themes and Metaphors in the Semantic Web
Discussion
Interesting presentation of the
thoughts and images we use to think about the semantic web.
I like the use of pictures to denote speakers throughout
the article (think 'reification'). If anything, what
emerges in this discussion is the lack of understanding
about just what the semantic web is and could be. Clay
Shirkey's misunderstanding of the role of the syllogism,
for example, suggests that the semantic web could only be
used for deductive inference, but this of course is false;
in my paper Resource Profiles I describes systems of
inductiove (or projective) inference using metadata. The
hard part about the semantic web, I think, will be to
crystallize a vision of what it could be, to find that
metaphor that fits exactly right. My own preference is to
use language as the metaphor, with resources as the
'words', but even that doesn't fit perfectly. Nothing will,
because the semantic web is unlike anything previously
attempted. By Peter Van Dijck, November 22, 2003
[Refer][Research][Reflect]
The Syndication Is The Thing
Greg
Ritter pulls together some columns by Doc Searles and gets
to the heart of the matter: it's not RSS that's key, it's
syndication, "the willingness of something to be known."
This is what is the key to the next generation internet;
RSS (and metadata in general) are simply the wheels that
make syndication happen. Why syndication? Because
syndication is about information flow, about
communication, ad communication is what lies at the
heart of the internet's revolutionary genius. Ritter:
"shifting the focus onto the process of syndication and
aggregation is the right direction. Focusing on the value
of and removing technical impediments to that process (as
opposed to making the process all about the data format
that makes up its guts) is what will take the tech
mainstream." By Greg Ritter, Ten Reasons Why, December 8,
2003
[Refer][Research][Reflect]
Center for
Safe and Responsible Internet Use
Just launched,
the goal of this website "is to provide guidance to
parents, educators, librarians, policy-makers, and others
regarding effective, empowerment strategies to assist young
people in gaining the knowledge, skills, motivation, and
self-control to use the Internet." A background paper (MS Word document)
outlines major issues associated with internet use by
children and suggests some strategies. By Nancy Willard,
December, 2003
[Refer][Research][Reflect]
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