Latest CACM

Interesting items from the latest Communications of the ACM (v48i7) with the ACM-provided taglines:

• Viewpoint: Instant messaging and the future of language by Naomi S. Baron.
  

  The writing style commonly used in IMing, texting, and other forms of computer-mediated communication need not spell the end of normative language.

  
  
• Metadata lessons from the iLumina digital library by Barbara P. Heath, David J. McArthur, Marilyn K. McClelland, Ronald J. Vetter
  

  They follow from the five-year effort to implement metadata standards for learning objects in the iLumina digital library of undergraduate teaching resources in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education.

  
  
• Scientific web intelligence: finding relationships in university webs by Mike Thelwall
  

  Methods for analyzing university Web sites demonstrate strong patterns that can reveal interconnections between research fields.

  
  
• The internet-based education bandwagon: look before you leap by Rudy Hirschheim
  

  Online students may perform as well as those in traditional classrooms, but what about the quality of their learning experience?