FastPencil is self-publishing with a twist. The traditional publishing process is a daunting one that can take many months of effort and more money than most writers anticipate. It’s no wonder authors get discouraged.

You shouldn’t have to ask anyone’s permission to write and publish your own book! We have removed the hurdles inherent in traditional publishing by combining amazing advances in print on demand technology with a sophisticated online workflow system.

So, today, moments ago, marks the first time that a comment spammer posted to this site. Since the site has an image captcha, I assume that the person manually typed in the spam (and also because it was one submission).

I deleted the submission, and temporarily set anon comments to approval before they are published, since there are now a few others besides Rick/Paul/Sam that receive messages emailed from this site.

Rick, we need to get together with you sometime and talk to you about some about http://wagn.org as an alternative to Drupal for social publishing platform, and probably as an eventual replacement for Culturing. Both Paul and I are using it as desktop wiki right now, and we both are hacking and modifying it.

Good book on the open education movement: Opening Up Education: The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge (2008, Toru Iiyoshi and M.S. Vijay Kumar, eds.). You can purchase the book through the MIT Press, though an electronic version is available for download under a Creative Commons license here.

What makes this book so useful is that it offers up a framework, from inside of the world of open education, for analyzing--and, if I may be so bold, at times criticizing--the early fruits of its own movement.

Notebooks
Your Signtific Notebook is your homepage for the future of science and technology. Notebooks are where you will now go to create signals and create forecasts. When the inspiration strikes, click on the appropriate create button and help create the future of science and technology. Notebooks also allow you to save and organize content that interests you, and to structure your ideas so that you can create signals and forecasts

The above is an iftf.org project to create a collaborative science workspace. The site is made using http://drupal.org