First Monday
May 9th, 2007
I had heard about First Monday, peer-reviewed journal on the internet
(it is, after all, home to such classics as The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric S. Raymond and The Attention Economy, by Michael H. Goldhaber, but after spending just a few minutes browsing this year’s contents, the amount of very attractive content is quite simply, overwhelming. In reverse chronological order (as belongs to a blog):
- A practical model for analyzing long tails, by Kalevi Kilkki
- Methodologies for Mapping the Political Blogosphere, by Axel Bruns
- Visible Past: Learning and discovering in real and virtual space and time, by Sorin A. Matei, Chris Miller, Nicholas K. Rauh, Laura Arns, Chris Hartman and Robert Bruno
- Assessing the value of cooperation in Wikipedia, by Bernardo A. Huberman and Dennis M. Wilkinson
- Visualizing the Overlap between the 100 Most Visited Pages on Wikipedia for September 2006 to January 2007 and What is Popular on Wikipedia and Why?, by Anselm Spoerri
- Video, education, and open content: Notes toward a new research and action agenda, by Peter B. Kaufman
- Building an open access African studies repository Using Web 2.0 principles, by Anna Winterbottom and James North
- Open educational resources in a global context, by Paul Stacey
- What open access research can do for Wikipedia, by John Willinsky
- The genesis and emergence of Education 3.0 in higher education and its potential for Africa, by Derek Keats and J. Philipp Schmidt
- Five heuristics for designing and evaluating Web-based communities, by Linda Gallant, Gloria Boone and Austin Heap
- Metadata for All: Descriptive Standards and Metadata Sharing across Libraries, Archives and Museums, by Mary W. Elings and Günter Waibel