Two of my classes this semester have class wikis:
Computers, Privacy, and the Constitution
Telecommunications
That would be two more than I’ve ever had before.
There are a few different spins you could put on this development. Along the student-faculty axis, it is putting more control in the hands of students. This is probably consistent with the institutional mission [...]
I’m spending today at a conference on user-generated content at New York Law School. Some notes from throughout the day. As usual, these come with the disclaimer that these are not direct quotes (unless I indicate them to be with quotes); as such you should not cite them as the words of the speaker, but [...]
This may be the most interesting announcement I’ve seen in quite some time. It is still relatively rare for socially produced knowledge to make the transition from free service to for-pay product (especially outside of software), so it will be interesting to see how it works out for wikitravel.
For class today we had to listen to this recording of Moglen and Lessig at Wikimania last summer. Sigh. My IP class has generally been good, but man… I would love to take a class which consisted of ‘understand everything touched on in that lecture.’ You could squeeze in deep philosophy of copyright; the relationships [...]
Stumbled on this essay defending the use of Wikipedia in academia today, and was pleased and excited to see that it was written by a Duke prof, Cathy Davidson (blog). I knew Duke was doing the right thing in starting a center for interdisciplinary studies, and I’m excited to see that Prof. Davidson (current head [...]
