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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: November 2005
We live in interesting times
From The Independent: The big thaw Research to be published in a few days’ time shows how glaciers that have been stable for centuries have started to shrink dramatically as temperatures in the Arctic have soared with global warming. On … Continue reading
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Why teach digital writing?
A nifty overview of the necessity, the resistance to, and the process of teaching writing in networked digital environments. Computers are not “just tools” for writing. Networked computers create a new kind of writing space that changes the writing process … Continue reading
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Attack of the career-killing blogs…
I somehow made it to this point in my life without knowing what memeorandum was — my first glance turned up this new article on the career implications of academic blogging: On the one hand, some resistance to the proliferation … Continue reading
Posted in Higher Ed
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Better to burn out?
Guess who’s 60? Neil was probably the first rock star I got into (the album that hooked me at age 11 was “Everybody’s Rocking”, of all things), has never been far from the top of my hit parade, and to … Continue reading
Posted in Abject Learning
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WikiRadio2 – Electric Boogaloo
For some reason, DJ Edit and his unfaithful sidekick Harry the Talking Computer have been allowed back on the air, this time in screencast form (requires QuickTime, 42 MB). They are counting down ten hot wikis (need I add, not … Continue reading
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If a two-day big bad blog party ain’t enough for ya…
…it looks like relentless co-organizer Boris, not content with heading up the Spaghetti Western Dinner, is hoping to make it a full week of rich, chocolaty, open-publishing goodness: I may actually extend this conference and try and gather people together … Continue reading
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Oiled up and ready to offend
As a follow-up to my other politically-themed post, thank you D’Arcy for stepping forward with some thoughtful and necessary discussion on the implications of the petroleum economy. (Some good comments there too.) To be honest, most of my periodic blogger-funks … Continue reading
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Free Space
Martha Burtis points to this welcome and heartfelt plea from Danah Boyd “capturing why it is that we need to allow space online for young people — and why we need to step aside and let them fill those spaces”: … Continue reading
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Social software short shorts
Like half the blogosphere (saw it from Josie first) I am giving Suprglu a shot. I think it will make a nice presentation space for the current run of RipMixFeed for the Text Technologies course, which is just getting started. … Continue reading
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Because the revolution’s here – podcasting in education
I already pointed briefly to Gardner Campbell’s wonderful piece on podcasting, There’s Something in the Air, but it deserves more than a passing glance. Gardner didn’t merely write a piece on what a podcast is, and offer a few links … Continue reading
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