I’ve been meaning to play around with Scribd for a while now but never felt I had anything useful to put up. After uploading some conference presentations on Slideshare a week ago and seeing the steadily climbing views, I finally decided to get a few abstracts together and upload them publicly. You can see them on my Scribd profile.
I’m looking into alternative forms of publishing (see my Mozilla project on a collaboratively authored South African textbook), especially since the majority of the local journals I’ll be publishing in aren’t online (yet). In order to get academic recognition, it’ll take years for my papers to filter out into the field if I rely purely on hardcopy. This seems to be a useful alternative to get my academic content out right now.
I’m also starting to wonder where I can aggregate all of my online spaces into one place. This blog would seem to be the natural place, but the structure doesn’t quite fit. I need an online business card that could direct people to the places that interest them. I’m playing around with a simple wiki at mrowe.co.za but don’t have the time to fiddle with the CSS to make it look right. If anyone has any idea about how to aggregate my different profiles (e.g. find me on Mendeley, Facebook, etc.), my feeds (this blog and Twitter, Flickr), my conference presentations and article abstracts, please feel free to drop me a line.
Here’s an example of one of my abstracts using iPaper:
Abstract – Knowledge, Attitudes Towards Social Software
Hi William. I am on Friendfeed but haven’t spent much time playing around with it to be honest. I’ll have another look
Thanks for the suggestion.
Michael, have you tried friendfeed? It’s not perfect, but it does do the kind of “lifestreaming” you’re talking about pretty well.