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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: October 2005
We now begin our descent…
Unlike D’Arcy and his family, who chose to emphasize the festive, even wholesome appeal of Halloween, way out here our own recognitions took on a darker, uncanny cast, spiraling into a maelstrom of the senses…
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The power of positive narcissism does it again
Checking my referrer stats I was sent to the new (to me) weblog The Open Classroom (great title), which pointed me toward this nugget from the blog of proximal development (another dandy moniker): …it occurred to me that I have … Continue reading
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Oh, the indignity…
First I write a long-ish posting about my presentation at NERCOMP, and the event itself, and what a brilliant guy Bryan Alexander is, and how much I enjoyed the other speakers, and spice it up with copius details about long … Continue reading
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Get thee behind me, Moose
All I have to do today is justify my continued existence at the University (preparing a detailed, itemized, budgeted account of projects and activities within the next hour or so), host an event featuring guests from the Open Source Learning … Continue reading
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Timely reviews of multi-user blog tools…
As I mentioned last week, I was surprised by how many EDUCAUSE attendees were at least thinking about launching weblog projects on their campuses. They really should check out James Farmer’s reviews of multi-user blog tools. It does not claim … Continue reading
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I have no integrity, and “Run away! Run away!”
After all my posturing, I ended up going to “Heat Up the Street”. A couple of people who apparently read this blog came up to me and asked: “I thought you said you were too cool for this.” Which I … Continue reading
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Cut the whining
My previous complaints about the weather, the hotel, urban planning, etc… no doubt make me seem like some sort of ingrate. I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention some valuable experiences here at EDUCAUSE. Our pre-conference seminar on ePortfolios and … Continue reading
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Weird scenes inside the goldmine…
The exhibit hall has lost none of its power to trigger strong emotional responses from me. You have to move fast to avoid being covered in branded schwag…
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On the certainty of uncertainty…
In the run-up to the conference here in Orlando, I made a few bad jokes about the wisdom of heading to Florida during hurricane season. I was assured that the season had passed (that wasn’t my understanding, but what do … Continue reading
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CogDogBlog 2.0 Specs Released
OK, I’m admittedly biased, and inclined to see just about everything Mr. Levine does as worthy of praise. But this is funny. And welcome. Whither hype in the face of sarcasm? Only the credulous know for certain.
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