Open Sourced Reporting. How About Open Sourced Law Reviews?
The site uses open source methods to develop good assignments and help bring them to completion; it employs professional journalists to carry the project home and set high standards so the work holds up. There are accountability and reputation systems built in that should make the system reliable. The betting is that (some) people will donate to works they can see are going to be great because the open source methods allow for that glimpse ahead.In this sense it’s not like donating to your local NPR station, because your local NPR station says, “thank you very much, our professionals will take it from here.” And they do that very well. New Assignment says: here’s the story so far. We’ve collected a lot of good information. Add your knowledge and make it better. Add money and make it happen. Work with us if you know things we don’t.
PressThink: Introducing NewAssignment.Net
Note that this is just an idea so far, newassignment.net does not exist yet. The whole aritcle is rather long, but worth read, so go read it and come back.
Welcome back. Now, suppose a law review editorial board posted a bunch of ideas for aritcles to a wiki-like site? We would like to publish articles concerning… Law students view the ideas, chip in some basic research stuff, a case here, a blog there. Faculty come along and claim the aritcle, pull together the resources, work with their virtual research assistants to create the final article. Credit is shared, the article is published by the journal. Comments?
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Rice University Press Gets Connexions
As money-strapped university presses shut down nationwide, Rice University is turning to technology to bring its press back to life as the first fully digital university press in the United States.Using the open-source e-publishing platform Connexions, Rice University Press is returning from a decade-long hiatus to explore models of peer-reviewed scholarship for the 21st century. The technology offers authors a way to use multimedia — audio files, live hyperlinks or moving images — to craft dynamic scholarly arguments, and to publish on-demand original works in fields of study that are increasingly constrained by print publishing.
Rice University | News & Media
Rice will be staffing and operating this as a traditional press with an editorial board and peer review of submissions. It breaks new ground in offering publications for free on web under Creative Commons licensing. On demand print copies will be available for a fee. No launch date has ben set. The Connexions project grew up at Rice and is used by the University for distance learning programs.
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What Level Are You?
O’Reilly Radar > Levels of the Game: The Hierarchy of Web 2.0 Applications – Tim O’Reilly explains the 4 levels of Web 2.0, provides examples, and ruminates on ‘trust’. Overall a good article that brings ‘Web 2.0’ in a clearer focus as a concept.
technorati tags:Tim_O’Reilly, Web2.0, trust
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