Tag Archives: Freelancing

bookmarks for August 6th, 2011 through August 19th, 2011

By sharing with open source projects, professors teach the importance of giving back – "Programming with open source, she said, helped her students understand a very important lesson: Tools promote institutionalized ways of thinking, acting, and accomplishing tasks. By embracing tools that can be altered and modified, students can break with traditional habits and expand their capabilities to do things they never imagined possible." – (oer )
Embedded in Academia : Open Proposals (or: Take My Idea — Please) – Ah, sanity in a good argument for OER, CC, and even copyleft. Not sure I buy into the warrants (based a little too much on free market capitalist beliefs – although the argument points to sharing), but I'll grant them for the argument. – (OER sanity sense CreavtiveCommons freelancing )

The Shadow Scholar – The Chronicle Review – The Chronicle of Higher Education – Freelancers. Make xtra $$ at home on your spare time. Paper pirates are pricey. Let's keep it that way. – (freelancing cheating fyc )
The Times’ Paywall and Newsletter Economics « Clay Shirky – Even Murdoch can't change the commodity market. "online, the Times has stopped being a newspaper, in the sense of a generally available and omnibus account of the news of the day, broadly read in the community. Instead, it is becoming a newsletter, an outlet supported by, and speaking to, a specific and relatively coherent and compact audience." – (journalism newspaper paywall media Shirky )

IPCC Rainforest eco-tastrophe claim confirmed as bunk • The Register – – (Rhetoric Fyc Scaremongering )
Shirky: Broadcast Institutions, Community Values – "The order of things in broadcast is "filter, then publish." The order in communities is "publish, then filter." If you go to a dinner party, you don't submit your potential comments to the hosts, so that they can tell you which ones are good enough to air before the group, but this is how broadcast works every day. Writers submit their stories in advance, to be edited or rejected before the public ever sees them. Participants in a community, by contrast, say what they have to say, and the good is sorted from the mediocre after the fact." – (publishing2.0 socialpractices editing filters freelancing )

chofmann’s weblog: FLOSS Manuals: Changing the Publishing World One Book at a Time. – The FLOSS Manuals Project wants to change all by bringing open source concepts to publishing. They are engaged in building a platform and community designed to get interesting books published and do it on faster cycles. I recently had a chance to participate in a FLOSS Manual Book Sprint as they worked on a Firefox Manual – (booksprints publishing2.0 publishing )
chofmann’s weblog: FLOSS Manuals: Changing the Publishing World One Book at a Time. – The FLOSS Manuals Project wants to change all by bringing open source concepts to publishing. They are engaged in building a platform and community designed to get interesting books published and do it on faster cycles. I recently had a chance to participate in a FLOSS Manual Book Sprint as they worked on a Firefox Manual – (booksprints publishing2.0 publishing )
BookSprints (en) – FLOSSManuals guide to planning and running a booksprint;. – (booksprints techwriting freelancing weblogs en3177 writing book collaboration documentation socialpractices )

Prune That Prose – The Chronicle Review – Another self-castigation about academic prose. Yes, good advice. Yes, a good position to take. But, as usual, the sense of academic prose is over-generalized and stereotyped. As here – "Revision requires making choices, something that academic writing allows you to avoid at all costs. Much of what makes that kind of prose so complicated is that nothing gets left out. Writing for a popular audience, in contrast, forces you to figure out what the hell you're trying to say and come right out with it."
So does writing for an academic audience when you respect that audience enough to bring your argument forward – which Hornstein finally nails when she looks at Graff and gets to writing for freshman.

Read Lanham's theory. – (academic styleguide prosestyle writing publishing )
theunbook.com » Dear publishers: It’s not too late to get a clue! – A few anecdotes about publishers malingering in the pre-digital age. Inky hubris. Makes the alternative of print on demand look good. "Publisher friends, I tell you this because I am your friend; I value your contribution and I like you. I want to work with you. But this is an intervention. You need to look at writers and illustrators as partners and collaborators and treat them as such. It’s time to step up in a spirit of partnership, " – (publishing publishing2.0 freelancing books book_culture )