The Living Edge
The Living Edge: David Sifry has just put up The State of the Live Web, April 2007. To explain the Live Web, he points to a pair of pieces I wrote in 2005. If you’d like a more visual explanation, follow the slides from this talk I gave at OSCON last summer, starting here. —– […]
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The Living Edge: David Sifry has just put up The State of the Live Web, April 2007. To explain the Live Web, he points to a pair of pieces I wrote in 2005. If you’d like a more visual explanation, follow the slides from this talk I gave at OSCON last summer, starting here. —– […]
Read MoreAnd the panda goes to… « Social Sim
And the panda goes to… « Social Sim: First of all, thank you. Thanks to the people who came out in droves to vote for the panda avatar I’ll wear for my 24-hour long virtual marathon in Second Life. ——- Aleks is going to be a panda in relay for second life. her team the […]
Read Morehomo ludens e-text
DBNL . Johan Huizinga, Homo ludens. Proeve eener bepaling van het spel-element der cultuur: Homo ludens. Proeve eener bepaling van het spel-element der cultuur —– of course it isn’t translated to english, but…. it is an e-text.
Read MoreStandardized Childhood
Standardized Childhoo: In Standardized Childhood, Berkeley Professor Bruce Fuller questions the push for universal preschool tied to “public school bureaucracies.†Tax-funded preschools would provide one standardized model for young children, he writes. —– it sounds like bruce fuller is on to something, we should be encouraging social and cultural pluralism in preschool, and not be […]
Read MoreWhich superhero would make a good professor responses
Confessions of a Community College Dean: Hulk Respect Process!: The Hulk would be good. FACULTY: This is intolerable! This is an affront to academic freedom! This is tyranny! HULK: Puny human! Hulk fair! Hulk respect process! RAAR! [Hulk crumples a nearby Toyota into a wad] FACULTY: Eep! HULK: Hulk college budget being cut? RAAR! Where […]
Read MoreU Michigan Unveils Master's Degree in 'Social Computing'
U Michigan Unveils Master’s Degree in ‘Social Computing’: The University of Michigan’s School of Information (SI) announced a graduate-degree specialization in “social computing” through a Master of Science in Information. The university said the program is the first in the country to focus on social computing, the term describing the wave of open technologies that […]
Read MoreLinux.com | Linux to help the Library of Congress save American history
Linux.com | Linux to help the Library of Congress save American history: The Library of Congress, where thousands of rare public domain documents relating to America’s history are stored and slowly decaying, is about to begin an ambitious project to digitize these fragile documents using Linux-based systems and publish the results online in multiple formats. […]
Read MoreOnline Degrees vs. Brick-and-Morter. The $100K Interview | SummitLearners – Education Online
Online Degrees vs. Brick-and-Morter. The $100K Interview | SummitLearners – Education Online: I hit the proverbial “glass ceiling” about 2 months ago. After working at my company for the last 3 years and steadily moving up from programming lacky to project manager, I had finally hit the point at which my bachelors degree just was […]
Read MoreLiveLeak.com – Jesus Camp and George Bush
LiveLeak.com – Jesus Camp and George Bush: Jesus Camp and George Bush —– Crap that’s scary…..
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