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April 8, 2004
Ideal Intellectual Communities
Posted by Seb Paquet
Janet Tokerud suggests that
Academic Blogging is a Must, eliciting a comment that links to a post on Household Opera about "
Ideal Intellectual Communities".
Features of such a community: "people who aren't competing with each other for funds, status, recognition, or employment"; "wouldn't be limited to the traditional options of journal article and monograph"; "mixture of academics and nonacademics"; "enough room for idiosyncrasy".
Janet comments on local intellectual communities:
[...] there are lots of interesting and gifted people around, we just don't know the right ones - locally. As blogging and other tools that (a) expose the brilliance and interests of those around us and (b) give us ways to engage with each other get better, I think we'll find and cultivate IICs in our communities.
Can't wait for that to happen. It's already started in places like San Francisco. Use the
GeoURL, Luke. (Special plea to
Blogger,
Typepad,
LiveJournalet al.: take a
cue from deviantART - make geotagging ridiculously easy and users will
love you for it.)
(link via
del.icio.us/mathemagenic/researcherBlog)
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1. Christopher Schmidt on April 9, 2004 4:42 PM writes...
It's not quite the same as what DeviantArt has done, but I think I pushed the LiveJournal crowd that's interested in GeoURL forward a bit with my post in the Nifty LiveJournal tricks community.
Sadly, with the way that LiveJournal works, the administration has no interest in interacting with other sites or anything like it. I gave them code to implement trackback - and it got touched by staff once, 2 months ago, to tell me it was a nice looking patch. Since then, I haven't heard anything. I wish I had, so I could just trackback here, instead of commenting, but such is life.
It's not built in, and it's not integrated, but it's something, and most "power users" of the site probably watch the community, or know someone who watches it.
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