Episode 93 — A JSTOR and Jerry Springer Thanksgiving
20 November, 20122 comments
What we do is news, of course (of course!), and so is what our friends do, and so is what “Friends of the Court” do. In the warm and friendly spirit of Thanksgiving, then, the four regular Digital Campus commentators (Mills, Dan, Tom, and Amanda) focus mainly on what you might call local news. First we address the decidedly non-local implications of JSTOR’s announcement that it will provide free access to a small community of Wikipedia editors, but then we get down into the news from closer to home. We’re pleased at the release of “Commons in a Box,” a turnkey open source blogging and social networking package built on BuddyPress by our buddies at CUNY Academic Commons, and we’re similarly pleased about the implementation of similar BuddyPress technology on the website for THATCamp, The Humanities and Technology Camp. We then hear reports from pundit Mills and troublemaker Dan about the Future of Higher Education Conference that recently took place at GMU, where passions ran as high as on your average daytime talk show. Dan ends by telling us all bit about a recent contribution he made to the question of whether the Authors’ Guild can be said to speak for academic authors, and then we adjourn, headed over the river and through the woods.
Links mentioned in the podcast:
- JSTOR Provides Free Access to Wikipedia Editors
- Deconstructing Wikipedia: Collaborative Content Creation in an Open Process Platform
- CUNY Commons in a Box
- THATCamp.org
- GMU’s Future of Higher Education Conference
- Mills Kelly at EdWired on the Future of Higher Education Conference
- Brief of Amici Curiae Academic Authors
Running time: 46:29
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Polly Thistlethwaite : 26th November, 2012
Great that you’re getting the word out about the CUNY Commons in a Box. It’s vital to our collaborative work in CUNY, and it’s got oh so many more potential applications.
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