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I blog less often here than I used to... This is exclusively UBC-related stuff now. For other items, you are welcome to drop by abject.ca 
In-Flux- How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet"forced to focus on integration, not innovation" […]
- "No method to madness""just an insatiable lust to make a difference" […]
- Rushkoff Keynote at Rhizome's 7 on 7 Festival"a very brief - 15-minute - keynote about the changing relationship of artist and technologist, delivered at the NewMusuem on April 14 for Rhizome's 7 on 7 festival." […]
- DARPA, Hackerspaces, and Schools"Money is a form of influence, even if done indirectly, and I feel a lot of aprehension at the idea of the Department of Defense having an ongoing channel of influence into the science and engineering programs at schools. We have a society with a strong and traditional separation between civilian life (including education) and the military and some very […]
- ART 404 - WORK"see, hear and feel the difference" Via Scott Leslie […]
- Welcome to Life « Tom Scott"A science fiction story about what you see when you die. Or: the Singularity, ruined by lawyers." […]
- The Myth of Disruptive Technology | John C. Dvorak"There is no such thing as a disruptive technology. There are inventions and new ideas, many of which fail while others succeed. That's it. This concept only services venture capitalists who need a new term for the PowerPoint show to sucker investors." […]
- Meet The New Boss, Worse Than The Old Boss?There is a quasi religious tone to many tech convention speeches and press releases. What other industry constantly professes utopian visions for all humanity? What other industry would dare proclaim they were liberating artists? Students? Workers? What other industry thinks they are mystical shaman “Let’s send our magic objects, our laptops to poor children […]
- Why the "Open Data Movement" is a Joke'A government can simultaneously be the most secretive, controlling Canadian government in recent memory and be welcomed into the club of "open government".' […]
- Open Data Movement Redux: Tribes and ContradictionsHeaps of provocative argument here, and many of the responses linked are also very much worth reading. And what may be the parallels to "open" in higher education? […]
- How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet
Monthly Archives: March 2003
The RSS Juggernaut keeps rolling
The RSS-friendly Maricopa Learning eXchange has added XML feeds for different disciplines, outputting the MLX’s five newest resources in each subject field (see lower left).
The discrete charm of visual design…
It’s exciting to see some of the directions that CAREO is taking. Developer D’Arcy Norman is putting a lot of effort into extending the presentation styles for the interfaces, apparently driven by the needs of the SciQ project. The old … Continue reading
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Open source models and manifestos
I neglected to link to George Siemens’ proposal for Developing Open Source Content that came out a couple of weeks ago. DOSC has four primary purposes: 1. Forum for collaborative creation of open source content. Academic fields are not isolated. … Continue reading
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A history of graphic design
!http://www.d.umn.edu/~jkmetz/GDH/esquire.jpg! Lots of great images, from the pre-print era to the present. History of Graphic Design home page via robot wisdom
A learning objects presentation, or a cry for help?
Last week I gave a presentation on reusable media for a group of educators at UBC’s Faculty of Science. I did my best to give a talk that used as little learning object lingo as possible, and left aside any … Continue reading
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Web Services for Bloggers, and a Directory…
Technorati is a nifty metablog engine, watching more than 160,000 weblogs, updated every fifteen minutes. It’s essentially a complement to MIT’s Blogdex engine — an excellent way to find like-minded webloggers (by searching for those who linked to a given … Continue reading
Experimental Jetset Vibraphone
Flash version: try different combinations for Harmonic Relaxation.
How to Create a Web Simulation
From Forio Business Simulations, an in-depth and hands-on tutorial on How to Create a Web Simulation. Via OLDaily
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Use and Abuse of Reusable Learning Objects
A weighty, thoughtful paper on LOs one that Stephen Downes notes takes ‘a fairly traditional line, arguing that only something that “combines its digital element and an exposition” can be a learning object.’
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A Modest History of OpenCourseWare
In a piece for the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Educational Technology, David Wiley traces the history of open educational content, from the foundation of the GNU project up through MIT’s OpenCourseWare and later developments.
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