Now that my new book “Managing E-mail”:http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1405300264/qid%253D1044801476/davidbrakeswe-21 is out I shall be monitoring its sales progress with interest. I looked around for sites that could help me do this and found three – “Jungle Scan”:http://www.junglescan.com/ lets you keep track of your book’s Amazon rank, “GoogleAlert”:http://www.googlealert.com/ emails you at regular intervals to tell you what has changed in a Google search for a given term (like a book title) so you can see newly-indexed pages about your subject (useful for lots of things besides books!). The third service from “Books & Writers”:http://www.booksandwriters.com/ lets you track both Amazon and Barnes and Noble’s sales ranking but the very week I started to use it they announced they are introducing a charge.

A BBC correspondent’s personal account of India’s digital divide.

D.M. Gorman “writes”:http://www.policyreview.org/FEB03/gorman.html in Policy Review about policy researchers (in this case health promotion researchers) who claim to be scientific but resist evaluating their projects using measurable outcomes. He recounts the hostility he encountered when he tried to challenge the validity of a project he encountered. He also cites the example of “Dr Nina Wallerstein”:http://hsc.unm.edu/fcm/docm/faculty.html who wrote a paper about the evaluation by a government agency of a health promotion project in New Mexico:

bq. Rather than assessing program outcomes, what Wallerstein chooses to do is describe her “learnings” (sic) concerning “the power relationships between myself as evaluator and the communities during the implementation of the evaluation…” The agency seems not to have shared Wallerstein’s emancipatory ideology and by the second year of the project had the temerity to demand more accountability from the community groups in terms of the actual activities that were being undertaken. For Wallerstein this was not a case of the state government acting responsibly with tax dollars, but rather an expression of the “illegitimate abuses of power over others by the funding agency.”

bq. True to her postmodernist creed, Wallerstein challenges the positivist social scientist’s claim to objectivity and value-free science, claiming instead that science is just one of “a multiplicity of truths” and the researcher just one of many storytellers and interpreters of what happens in the world. Even worse, scientific data represent the “power/knowledge” discourse of positivist researchers, and this is frequently at odds with the “subjugated knowledge” of the community at whose expense they pursue their own interests.

Without reading Wallerstein’s paper in full, it is hard to really judge whether she was deserving of the criticism Gorman heaps on her, but he certainly identifies an interesting issue – whether postmodernism has a place in social science which is being applied to achieve practical goals.

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I have been going through the list of sites which visitors found this blog through and found some interesting results.

Whatis? is a handy dictionary of technology terms and a few weeks back it apparently nominated this weblog as one of its “Favorite Technology Blogs“. Thank you whoever put me on that list and I hope visitors find what they are looking for.

Also thanks to Kevin Morris at Becta for putting this weblog on a list of good weblogs for UK Online centres.

It’s nice to get visitors from French and Italian weblogs, and I’m gratified at the people from around the world including Brazil, Indonesia and Malaysia who have written in to ask to see some of the papers I have written.

On a lighter note, I noticed a few people coming from “http://www.web-shite.co.uk/” (now Roraz.com) which seems to specialise in linking to sites that are either gross or pornographic. I couldn’t figure out why until I noticed this entry for bl0g.org: “The mother of porn blog/user intergration/dirty/filthy/websites on the net. Either that or someone seriously needs to get a girlfriend.” Yes it’s pretty much as described and no it’s nothing to do with me! The difference one letter can make…

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