144 posts tagged attribution

The Institutional Review Blog, in which I have a certain interest, regularly catalogs the failings of IRBs with respect to history and allied disciplines. Now it reports on the damage IRBs do to participatory research, and one story in particular stood out to me: Elwood enlisted non-scholars as "community map makers" in a participatory project.

Concurring Opinions: Cory Doctorow’s latest novel, Little Brother, is technically a young adult novel, but there is something in there for anyone interested in cyberlaw, security, national security law, and oh yeah, a rather fun, although at times scary, tale.

Are You “Slow”? 17 May 2008 at 0:15 (College/University, Teaching/Tutoring, attribution errors) “I, myself, was always recognized . . . as the “slow one” in the family. It was quite true, and I knew it and accepted it. Writing and spelling were always terribly difficult for me.

Nearly 30,000 phenomena in the natural world - from the timing of plant flowering to the rate of ice melting - are being influenced by human-induced global warming, according to the first study to formally link trends in biological and physical systems to rising greenhouse gas emissions.

Charter Commission Meeting [Legislative Sub-Committee] 14 May 2008 14 May 2008 (Wednesday) NOTICE OF THE CITY OF O’FALLON CHARTER COMMISSION Legislative Sub-Committee O’Fallon Municipal Centre 100 North Main Street O’Fallon, Missouri 63366 Wednesday, May 14th 2008, 6:30 P.M.

And now for a blog post about blogging. This one comes with inspiration from my friend Matt Ingram, and the topic is an allegation thrown against one of my favorite sources of news and commentary — Ars Technica.

Duncan Riley at the Inquistr has written a very significant post recently on “Giving Attribution” [11 May 2008] citing the importance of citing your sources and giving credit where credit is due. The entire piece is worth reading as it outlines an informal, yet long-standing citation convention - much of which I use here.

I wasn’t going to jump into this one, mostly because it seemed kind of “inside baseball” (i.e., not that interesting to lots of people), but as we all know one of the main things the blogosphere likes to do is blog about blogging, so I thought I would take a crack at the Ars Technica brouhaha.

I wasn’t going to jump into this one, mostly because it seemed kind of “inside baseball” (i.e., not that interesting to lots of people), but as we all know one of the main things the blogosphere likes to do is blog about blogging, so I thought I would take a crack at the Ars Technica brouhaha.

Have we finally reached the tipping point for actually stating that we have ethics and where we draw those lines? It wasn't even a month ago when I mentioned that all bloggers may need a personal code of ethics as detailed as Kara Swisher's if we wanted to be taken seriously as journalists.