Just finished a brief survey on the topic of action research.

Here are some links to visualizations of the process of action research:

The Research Process
Model of Inquiry
Action Research Process

graphic by Martin Ryder

And here is an action research link list (primarily in English but some German text as well):

http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/gcm/ar/arr/arow/default.html
http://www.zylstra.org/blog/archives/001162.html
http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/gcm/ar/arhome.html
http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/gcm/ar/arp/grounded.html
http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/activity.html
http://www.stangl-taller.at/TESTEXPERIMENT/experimentaktionsforschung.html
http://www.stangl-taller.at/ARBEITSBLAETTER/FORSCHUNGSMETHODEN/Handlungsforschung.shtml
http://nrm.massey.ac.nz/changelinks/thesis_contents.html
http://nrm.massey.ac.nz/changelinks/ar.html
http://usuarios.iponet.es/casinada/arteolog/120.htm#toimtutk
http://www.menergement.de/arbeitsweise/action/intro.html

I thought that Babelfish translations are bad but yesterday I learned that humans can do worse. Not by translating but by writing off from a webform. The Austrian Easybank managed to make fun of paratexts used in conjunction with a money transfer (Überweisung). Must be on purpose otherwise I cannot explain.
Mark, I beg your pardon.

Our university is getting a new director (or Rektor as we call it) There will be a public hearing. Here is the list of applicants. Quite impressive Some of them are quite impressive I’d say.

1. o. Univ.-Prof. DI Dr.techn. Manfred Deistler, Leiter der Forschungsgruppe Ökonometrie und Systemtheorie am Institut für, Wirtschaftsmathematik der Technischen Universität Wien

2. Univ.-Prof. (C4) Dr.

Wow, congrats to Socialtext. A very strong sign that the Internet and IT bounces back even if it is different to what we expected. Nobody ever thought that Social Software and the like will ever generate revenues - at least not 2 years ago.
Read the full **Academy Awards Acceptance Speech** it’s worth the link is below..

Pierre invests in Socialtext

Pierre Omidyar the founder of eBay has a new project called the Omidyar Network.