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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- Shapeways"Ideas made real with 3D printing." […]
- Yelling it like it is | Alchemical MusingsHer interviews with [Eben Moglen] should have started with these talks as a baseline, not require him to rehash privacy 101 for the umpteenth time. […]
- Soundmachines"Three units, which are resembling standard record players, translate concentric visual patterns into control signals for further processing in any music software. The rotation of the discs, each holding three tracks, can be synced to a sequencer." […]
- Apache considered harmfulGitHub is truly a system of anarchism, in the most classic sense of the term. It is a system of communication and contribution that is without a central organization or institution of governance. Sure, it is hosted, developed, and maintained by someone but they do not enforce any set of governance or process over the users of the system. […]
- Should you boycott academic publishers?"Elsevier has committed too many sins to give an exhaustive list: they have created fake academic journals so that pharmaceutical corporations could claim that certain facts appeared in a journal, they have sponsored evil regulations, and they have restrictive views on what constitutes fair use. Unbelievably, they were also involved in arms trade. They […]
- Why Education Publishing Is Big Business"The biggest publishers in the world today are education publishers." […]
- Scripting News: Why apps are not the future"The great thing about the web is linking. I don't care how ugly it looks and how pretty your app is, if I can't link in and out of your world, it's not even close to a replacement for the web. It would be as silly as saying that you don't need oceans because you have a bathtub. How nice your bathtub is. Try building a continent arou […]
- "Commons in a Box" & the Importance of Open Academic Networks"...open source versus proprietary technology isn't the only thing at stake. Nor is it simply that Commons in a Box supports an open ecosystem versus a "walled garden." It is that latter piece that seems particularly noteworthy, however, as the project is part of a larger movement on campuses to open up academic scholarship itself -- not […]
- Access? Copyright! | Ariel Katz" The already dire situation of Canada’s school libraries should serve as a good reminder. Moreover, in post-secondary education, it has been well documented that the consolidation of the academic publishing industry over the last few decades and the licensing practices of the major commercial academic publishers has led to an escalation in the price of […]
- No Copyright Intended"For most people, sharing and remixing with attribution and no commercial intent is instinctually a-okay." […]
- Shapeways
Monthly Archives: April 2005
Donde estas Bandido Rojo?
Imagine my surprise when I had finally finished up the arduous and death-defying task of getting the boy ready for daycare, herded him out the door, and Bandido Rojo… was… not there. A confirmation call later, there really was no … Continue reading
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Maximum Information Overdrive
Info Originally uploaded by courtneyp. Among the things I’ve been brooding over lately is the notion of information overload… It’s one of those tricky concepts that most people intuitively understand on some sort of common sense level, and it’s widely … Continue reading
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Why we’re (probably) sticking with our (non-optimal) weblog system (for now)
…waiting for MovableType to rebuild 800 posts is but one more reason to wake up and join the WP crowd (yes I will James, no need to spur me on, it’s a matter of time). MT is like, so…. 2002. … Continue reading
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Abject Mashup
Today this weblog was on the receiving end of a mashup. The resulting text is more coherent and lucid than the source material: My presentation on wikis required me to make it easy and fun to get to the remarkably … Continue reading
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Remind me to hand my lab report in on time…
Here’s a Biology Professor that can generate some seriously intense vibes — in this case directed at the poor sap who stole his laptop during a previous class. “I’m the only hope you’ve got of staying out of deeper trouble … Continue reading
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Disposable thinking? Tangled in the metaphors
Maybe I was feeling a little buzzed by the subject matter of my previous post, or maybe I was just feeling info-logged, but whatever it was about forty-five minutes ago I could tell that my brain was not operating properly. … Continue reading
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Sleep is for slackers… join the ‘competitive waking’ brigades (or else)
Co-worker asleep Originally uploaded by ldandersen. After struggling to drag my sleepy self onto the bus to work this morning, my daily paper greeted me with a headline admonishing that If you slept till 5:30 this morning, you slept in. … Continue reading
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Students on blogging: “I’m so freakin’ curious about this, y’know?”
Will Richardson posts and links to a host of student reactions to blogging in the curriculum. As Bud the Teacher suggests, “Wouldn’t it be terrible if the decisions about blog use in classrooms were all made for students, instead of … Continue reading
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Is this the future of print?
I snagged a copy of The Atlantic at the airport before the flight back to Vancouver. Normally I would not be so optimistic to expect reading time sitting next to my toddler, but the cover story was an eye-grabber: a … Continue reading
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Yeah, I’m back, but…
… am still working through my backlog of email and hanging tasks that either sprung up or lingered in my absence. Suffice it to say that the trip went as well as could be expected: no disasters, health problems, lost … Continue reading
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