Brandon Muramatsu

muraPOI: December 12, 2011

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  • Conquering the CHAOS of Online Community at StackExchange: Mostly I’m a free-form, let the community form, organize and self-police kind of guy. This is a good way to ensure the longevity of an online community. The challenge comes when trying to get to a “reasonable” set of community norms to govern the community. Ben Popper of BetaBeat writes about how StackExchange is guiding their communities through their CHAOS team.

    What can we (OEIT and others) learn from CHAOS at Stack Exchange?

    Joel Spolsky of CHAOS says, “I don’t expect that there are a lot of people out there who already know how to do this well, so I’m going to train them, personally.” The team has grown from two people to eight agents in the last few months. “Everyone who joins the program (and survives for a year) will come out with an almost supernatural ability to take a dead, lifeless site on the internet and make it into the hottest bar in town. That’s a skill worth learning for the 21st century.”

    It’s going to take the right sort of person and team to do this at scale, especially for an “officially sponsored” site and community.

    (via O’Reilly Radar, Four Short Links, December 9, 2011)

  • Ranking live streams of data: John Kristian at LinkedIn writes about how they rank interesting discussions within LinkedIn’s group discussions. A complement to the community-based approach of StackExchange.

    (via O’Reilly Radar, Four Short Links, December 9, 2011)

  • Exploring open access in higher education: live chat best bits: The Guardian in the UK hosted a live chat and this post highlights some of the discussion.

    David Kernohan of the UKOER programme writes:

    “We must move away from talking about the ‘dissemination of OER’: It’s an odd choice of word as it implies that academics would wait and be passively fed contextually perfect teaching materials.”

    Yes, we tend to agree. We’re working on a proposal that may help address some of this problem.

    Also an interesting discussion of a revenue neutral model for open access journal publishing that puts articles in the open, while still providing the same revenue for the publisher. Yes, it’s supporting a borked system, but hey, it gets the content out there. I’d like to hope that professional societies would move more strongly into open access–but they’ve borked their revenue models by cross-subsidizing activities, or worse using journal publishing as a pure revenue stream. It may serve the organization, but I think it’s becoming increasingly difficulty to say it really supports scholarship or the members.

    (via Google Alert, “OCW”, December 8, 2011)

  • engag.io: Fred Wilson at AVC introduces a beta service engag.io. Pretty cool idea–universal commenting inbox that displays connections and other analytics. I’m just waiting for a beta invite.

    From the Engagio blog entry Engagio’s First Premise: The Universal Commenting Inbox:

    “How does this compare to existing commenting solutions? Our vision is very user-centric whereas other commenting systems are primarily site owner-centric”

    (via AVC, December 6, 2011)

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