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Cite it Right: guide to Harvard referencing style
From the Glucksman Library.
I’m writing an essay at the moment that refers to blog posts, websites, wikis and Google search results as well as the more traditional papers and books. This has been a really useful guide. -
Blogging & Impact « Reluctant Technologist
Matt Lingard from the LSE reports on work suggesting that for academic blogs to have maximum impact they should have multiple authors and he explains the reasons.
Certainly, the LSE politics blog is a good case in point - http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/.
Note, he’s not devaluing individual blogging, just saying that it is less likely to have impact.
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Student protesters in London use Google Maps to outwit police “kettling”
From Boing Boing: This was a while ago, but I’m collecting examples of community map mash-ups or anything spatial on the web.
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Cybermap of the scientific world
Like the recent map of Facebook connections, this shows links between scientists collaborating on papers across the globe.
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The Secret History of Social Networking
@ruskin147′s only gone and done a radio series on the history of social networking for the BBC.
Listen here.
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A video compiled by Michael Wesch with some interesting thoughts about the shape of university education.
Also, a nice example of creative screencasting and lecture capture.
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A blog post announcing the release of an interactive map shwoing the frequency of surnames in London according to the 2001 census data. Interesting
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backchan.nl — Conference backchannel tool
Another promising looking flag-up from @rmbyrne. An open source backchannel tool from MIT.
Not had a chance to use it but I’m holding on to it for later
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The Ed Techie: The year of the backlash
Here’s Martin Weller’s take on the “social networking backlash” backlash
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Social networking under fresh attack as tide of cyber-scepticism sweeps US | Media | The Observer
I really should broaden my reading beyond the Guardian, but here’s a post about the backlash against social networking.
Is it really a backlash or just down to social networking’s progress along the hype curve?
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If, like me, you’ve forced your diminutive offspring onto the mobile device bandwagon, these might be worth a look.
January 30, 2011
What I’ve read this week – Diigo (weekly)
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