Academic Commons aspires to become the SlashDot (http://slashdot.org) for those of us who traffic in the often lonely interstices of academic technology, new media, faculty development, liberal learning, scholarly communication and the library of the future. We're re-working our site so it will be easier to link, easier to comment, easier to track those areas that you find interesting or at least useful. We need help, though. That's where you come in. We are looking for a number of courageous souls to agree to take half an hour a week for an entire semester to contribute to our site. We hope to find a person or a team to agree to track developments in the following zones:

• copyright and intellectual property
• games
• virtual worlds
• open educational resources
• e-portfolios
• course/content/collection management systems
  
• assessment
• open access
• liberal learning
  
• facilities (labs, classrooms, informal learning spaces)
• cyberinfrastructure
• born-digital scholarship
• gadgets
• literacies (information, media, quantiative, and so on)
  
•  ... what's missing????

We are looking for people ready to commit to the following:

1. Posting a link to an interesting article/resource on a weekly basis. The posting should help our diverse readership understand how the link relates to the practice of liberal education, broadly defined.
2. Fleshing out a wiki page with a set of links to the key resources for your zone.
   
3. Helping us identify your successor when your term expires.

In return, you'll get:

1. first-rate editorial feedback to make your postings shine
2. a platform to establish your credibility as a leading expert on your topic of choice
3. a broad audience (we get about 1,000 unique visitors a day to our site)
4. a chance to develop an audience beyond your local institution, and if you are already blogging, a chance to build that readership by pointing our readers to your blog

Interested? Intrigued? Brave enough to try this out for 15 weeks to see if it's for you? Send email to editor@academiccommons.org and tell us your zone of choice. We'll send you instructions as well as regular naglets to keep you going.