Friday, February 11, 2005

Liquid Information

How did we go from using computers with punched cards, where you'd have to wait a day for the results of your calculations - to sitting around in coffee shops with a laptop ?

Liquid Information is a research project at UCLiC in London in cooperation with Doug Engelbart in California. We are aiming to make text more interactive - turning words into hyperwords.

Why? Most electronic communication has focused on the production of information, not the digestion of information. In order to make informed decisions in our work, it's not enough to rely on automated systems - we need to get the right information into our heads.

URLs:

[1] http://www.liquidinformation.org

[2] Douglas Engelbart, Invisible Revolution, the Doug Engelbart & the history of interactive computing. http://www.invisiblerevolution.net/

Disruptive Scholarship

Gerry McKiernan has announced the launching of the "disruptive scholarship blog". at http://disruptivescholarship.blogspot.com/.

I have begun to speculate further about the Wiki as *the* platform for The Next Generation e-Journal [1] and the transformation of the review process. I hereby invite Any and All of my Web Colleagues to Critically Review the scenarios outlined below in which I sketch the probable future [:-)] of scholarly communication, review, and publishing ['Disruptive Scholarship'] in the WikiWorld.

[1] [http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Web4Lib/archive/0408/0173.htm]