Archive for the ‘Electronic text’ Category
Norway open
This just in (well ok, I’ve been on holidays for two weeks): The Norwegian government just decided that all online public information must be accessible through open standards – mainly html, pdf and odf. This applies to all levels of government, which have until Jan 1. 2009 to comply.
Most beautiful of all, they have until 2014 to – hold on – reformat old documents. Read the rest of this entry »
Facebookademics and the media
The last couple of days two newspaper articles about academic research on Facebook have been the subject of much discussion on the email list for the AoIR (Association of Internet Researchers). It started with this story in the Washington Post, which portrays recent work about social networking sites as an academic landrush in which scholars are rushing to claim the new territory as their own.
The following outcry among the internet researchers is interesting, because it illustrates the conflicted relationship between academia and the press. That is something I’ve personally experienced from both sides: As a journalist trying desperately to get scholars speak in a manner which could be communicated to a general, non-academic public, and as an academic opening the newspaper and finding myself quoted saying exactly the opposite of what I thought I had said. Needless to say, both experiences are extremely frustrating.
