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Books on personal publishing and their impact on the publishing industry (Eelco Ferwerda)

2005-09-01T08:48:00.000-03:00

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On 8/31/05, eelco.ferwerda wrote:

My compliments for your fine work on the notion of personal knowledge publishing. I'm writing an article about the future of scholarly publishing, and one of the points I'll make is that the current publishing models might undergo drastic changes due to the adoption of blogs and comparable software.
I'm looking for a good, recent book on this subject: personal web publishing and its impact on the traditional publishing industry. Can you recommend a book?
If not: what's a good book on personal web publishing/blogging as a means for knowledge sharing in scholarly environments?

sincerely,

Eelco Ferwerda

Amsterdam University Press

From: Sebastien Paquet
Date: Aug 31, 2005 11:59 AM

Hello Eelco

For the impact on news publishing I warmly recommend
http://www.hypergene.net/wemedia/weblog.php

http://wethemedia.oreilly.com/ might be good too.

For the impact on the world of publishing at large, I'm afraid I don't
have a good reference. I'm not sure there is yet a critical mass of
people in the publishing industry who are wondering about that to make
a sellable book about it. You could ask the authors of this (French)
weblog on publishing: http://lafeuille.blogspot.com/. Look at their
blogroll too.
The most heat re: book publishing right now centers around the
wikipedia-britannica rivalry, which is more about collaborative than
personal publishing.

Re: personal web publishing/blogging as a means for knowledge sharing
in scholarly environments, the literature is still fairly thin and
there isn't a book out yet as far as I know. You could hunt down the
papers from the blogtalk conference, and maybe read relevant chapters
of my thesis - http://radio.weblogs.com/0110772/2003/05/17.html.

Be sure to look at Odlyzko's excellent papers. The open access
movement should be on your radar too; you could start at
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm

There are a few linkful del.icio.us bins of mine that you may be
interested in perusing:

http://del.icio.us/sebpaquet/book
http://del.icio.us/sebpaquet/SocialSoftware%2Bacademia
http://del.icio.us/sebpaquet/ScholarlyCommunication
http://del.icio.us/sebpaquet/KnowledgeSharing

Can I blog your question and my answer on http://sebsmailbox.blogspot.com/ ?

Cheers
Seb

(I should've mentioned the numerous books on blogging. Here's one list.)

Ridiculously Easy Group Forming (Juan Arellano)

2004-06-26T21:28:00.000-03:00

On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 juan wrote:

> Hi
>
> I´d like to know about what has happened with the ideas you wrote in the article "making group-forming ridiculously easy", sice it was written some time ago, i think maybe some of them has come real.
>
> I live in Perú, and i´m very interested in the blogosphere thing, and how to develop it here. We´re not so many bloggers but there is a litle group with aims to make things. Our common sites are http://www.blogsperu.com y http://www.blogsperu.org, and in the near future they´ll be just one site.
>
> sorry for bad written things, but i don´t speak english, just Castellano (Español). (but i do read english).
>
> thanx for the answer, by
>
> Juan Arellano
>
> http://arellano.bloxus.com
> http://arellanos.blogspot.com

Hi Juan,

Wonderful things happened since I wrote this. A guy in New Zealand,
Phillip Pearson, built a site to make the ideas real. It is at
http://topicexchange.com

Many groups have been created on the exchange. Some of the most active are
in Spanish:

http://topicexchange.com/t/directorio_blogs_hispanos/
http://topicexchange.com/t/bitacoras/

If you want to create one to collect Peru-related posts, you are very
welcome! Also add it to the list at
http://topicexchange.com/wiki.pl?WorldWide

I've written a "scientific" article on this experiment (pdf, 500k).

One of the things that are missing is an automatic way to enable blog tools
without trackback to participate. I've just got an idea that I might try,
based on a recent experiment done at NMC 2004.

My brother went to Peru last year. He thought you guys are very cool.

Cheers

Sébastien

Re: Help regarding study on community of practice

2004-06-26T21:22:00.000-03:00

Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 19:54:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sebastien Paquet
To: Albert Delgado
Subject: Re: Help regarding study on community of practice

On Sat, 26 Jun 2004, Albert Delgado wrote:

> Seb,
>
>
> Al, Can I put your query and my answer on my public mailbox?
>
> Sure!
>
> Here is my new question. I am out here in Washingtons state at a
professional writing retreat.
>
> How can online communication and publishing tools support and extend the
> conversion of teachers involved in Communities of Practice.

If by conversion you mean conversation, I guess the #1 thing is that it makes previously isolated efforts visible to one another, enabling a stronger network to emerge where more good and relevant ideas can reach any participant with very little additional investment.

Seb

PS Can I assume I can publish Q&As like these in the future, unless you
indicate otherwise?

Communities of practice for educators (Al Delgado)

2004-06-12T21:06:00.000-03:00

Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 21:16:19 -0500
From: Albert Delgado
To: Sebastien Paquet
Subject: Help regarding study on community of practice

Hello Seb,

I was wondering if you could lead me to some resources in
regards to communities of practice among educators. We are six
elementary school teachers at one school and 5 professors .

My basic study is the development of a community of practice
around a Teacher action research group(s). The group is
looking at ESL Student Discourse development. We officially
start in September.

Second, to see if web services such as a blog, wiki and scout
portal toolkit, IM will support the community in its mission
over time.

I am looking at the history of of inquiry at our school among
educators.
I have set up a blog at http://www.learningcommons.net and
http://www.learningcommons.net/discourse/

I will have to "show" and "sell" the benefits of using
disruptive technology.

Any suggestions regarding communities of practice and
disruptive technology to enhance the work of said groups would
be very welcome.

Al

Al:

I know little on CoPs among educators. I don't think they're very
widespread, though they ought to. I'd say the Edblogosphere is one of the
most visible. In Higher Ed there are http://www.aahe.org/cop.htm

This should help -

http://web.archive.org/web/20030608211506/http://webtools.cityu.edu.hk/news/newslett/onlinecomm.htm

> My basic study is the development of a community of practice around a
> Teacher action research group(s). The group is looking at ESL Student
> Discourse development. We officially start in September.

Sounds like jargon to me. :)

> Second, to see if web services such as a blog, wiki and scout portal
> toolkit, IM will support the community in its mission over time.

For sure, as long as the educators are not afraid to try them... an IRC
channel could be fun too. If they're not very techy a mailing list might
be more likely to have high participation. If using a blog at least you
need email updates. you can use a wiki as a repository of the useful
stuff. Publicise the wiki regularly on the list.

http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/community/MailingListThenWiki

> I am looking at the history of of inquiry at our school among educators.

> I have set up a blog at http://www.learningcommons.net and
> http://www.learningcommons.net/discourse/
>
> I will have to "show" and "sell" the benefits of using disruptive
> technology.

To funders or teachers? It's a very different sale.

> Any suggestions regarding communities of practice and disruptive
> technology to enhance the work of said groups would be very welcome.

The wwwtools backlog is the single best thing I could think of to sell to
funders. For teachers you'd need conversation and live demos. My 2c.

http://web.archive.org/web/20040626115438/http://webtools.cityu.edu.hk/news/newslett/

Cheers, sorry for the late response
Seb