Knowledge2Go

Stephen Downes links to the Report of the 21st Century Literacy Summit (pdf document) held in 2004. Lots of interesting material on new media literacy - precisely the sort of stuff we want to include in the Knowledge2Go book.

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Jeff Jarvis of BuzzMachine points to various interesting new approaches to writing and publishing books, including open-source-edit and self-publish and (in the comments at the bottom) soliciting donations in advance and then making the book available for free. (Photo credit: David Bleasdale)

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Thought I’d put a link here to the manifesto I wrote last year about research in (and against) the knowledge economy, as it conveys much of what we’re hoping to do with the upcoming book.

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I have just had a nice chat to Fiona Wakelin of Juta, who will be publishing Knowledge2Go. Fiona is currently visiting Gauteng from her home base in Cape Town. She is not only clued up about traditional publishing stuff, but also has creative ideas about the process of writing and publishing the book.

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Two upcoming book fairs to keep an eye on: The Frankfurt Book Fair this year (19 to 23 October 2005) and the Cape Town Book Fair next year (17 to 20 June 2006).

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We (Martin Terre Blanche and Kevin Durrheim) will be using this blog as part of the process of writing a new student textbook on doing research in (and against) the knowledge economy.

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