The Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, JCMC, has just gone live at its new home and web address.

From the announcement:

"Starting January 1, 2005, the JCMC website has a new server home and a new look! We're still working on the server migration and getting the new site design in place, so please bear with us during this transition period. The ascusc.org site will remain up for a while, although only this site will be updated from now on. Look for our next issue, Volume 10, Issue 2, towards the end of January.

In other news, JCMC founding editors Margaret McLaughlin and Sheizaf Rafaeli are stepping down after 10 years. Susan Herring is the new editor; read her welcome letter here. Margaret and Sheizaf will continue to give input as members of the journal's editorial board."

The members of the BROG project are pleased to announce preprint availability of our paper, Weblogs as a Bridging Genre.

This paper is bound for a special issue of Information, Technology, & People, due out sometime next spring.

I've put together a little mailing list for folks who are interested in the state of blogs/content management systems for education. [i know that several of us around here are into that stuff, so now we're organizing... hehe]

to subscribe, visit:

http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cmsedu

alternately, send subscribe requests to "cmsedu-request@stderr.org".

I've been playing with blog tools and desktop news aggregators lately, so I thought I'd post some short summaries of what I've seen and what I've run into as problems.

Discussed: Peerkat, Blosxom, Amphetadesk.

UMichigan's Scholarly Publishing Office has put a bibliography of electronic peer review tools on the web. [Likely they didn't intend for it to be linked from elsewhere - I found it by googling for such a beastie. -elijah]

I'm working on a paper concerning online evaluation schemes. I've looked very carefully at the pedagogical implications of the software used by Slashdot and Kuro5hin, as well as the rating system used by OOMind, but I was wondering whether anyone had suggestions or alternatives in mind that I might simply have overlooked.