Tobias Escher at the OII

There are not too many good news for Berlin these days but hey, it’s still popular. “berlin” is one of the “all time most popular tags” on flickr.com with almost half a million pictures tagged. Judging by it, there does not seem to be much daylight in the city but you can have fun in [...]

An interesting follow up to a recent discussion in our brownbag seminar about how to protect children from “the bad content” on the Internet without regulating them as much as to put them off the net: Private Company Infospace has launched zoo.com, a search engine that aggregates results from ‘Google, Yahoo!, and Wikipedia, as well [...]

So far I did not read too much about the current (and apparently for some time ongoing) discussion about a reform at the University of Oxford although time and again you get some hints that something incredible is going to happen. Well, all of us who are here can easily imagine that an institution that [...]

Today we had very nice Peter M. Shane present the findings of the Virtual Agora Project. This was a three year National Science Foundation funded project designed to establish how to best facilitate citizen deliberation with the use of online tools.summary of project

Phase I was a controlled experiment that involved 550 randomly sampled Pittsburghers. One [...]

Concerning some recent discussion on which software to use for managing citations (or whether at all), here some information that I gathered during an one hour OUCS session which compared the two standard products (?): Endnote and RefWorks. I email the handout on the list so you can check for yourself but here is a [...]