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Aggregator Digg.com Expanding

0 Comments Published by Patrick June 25th, 2006 in Blogging, Technology, Blogs, Techculture & Cyberculture, Virtual Communities, Educational Technology, Educational Technology

Editor and Publisher reports that Digg.com, a Web site that ranks and displays news items based on recommendations from its users, is expanding to include video and topics beyond technology. Currently, users are limited to posting and reading items on security, digital music, robots and other tech-related categories.

Beginning Monday, they will be able to post and have access to world, business and entertainment news, along with non-news video. Games and science also will break out of the general technology section.

Mac Using Scientists Frustrated by On-Line Grant Submission System

0 Comments Published by Patrick June 16th, 2006 in Technology, Higher Education, Educational Technology, Educational Technology

A posting at Inside Higher Ed has noted that:

In recent years, as federal agencies have shifted the grant application process online, Mac users have complained about being treated as second class citizens. This year, as the National Institutes of Health shifted its process to the Grants.gov online submission system, glitches have further frustrated Mac-wielding scientists. Grants.gov is an outgrowth of the President’s Management Agenda that seeks to have all federal grants exclusively online.

Many academic scientists [have] said that the government didn’t know its audience when it began with a Windows-only system — and changes have not gone as well as many have hoped. While Mac users may be in a minority nationally, there are parts of academe where their numbers are far from small.

Founder of Wikipedia Advises Against Academic Use of Wiki

0 Comments Published by Patrick June 12th, 2006 in Education, Higher Education, Wikis, Educational Technology, Educational Technology

The Chronical of Education posted a note today describing how Wikipedia's founder, Jimmy Wales, says that he wants to get the message out to college students letting them know that they shouldn’t use Wiki either for class projects or for serious research. Speaking at a conference held at the University of Pennsylvania on Friday called “The Hyperlinked Society,” Mr. Wales said that he gets a number of e-mails each week from students who complain that Wikipedia has gotten them into academic trouble. However, he said that he has no sympathy for their misfortune, noting that he thinks to himself: “For God sake, you’re in college; don’t cite the [Wiki] encyclopedia.”