social learning, open education, and petty battles with rivals over power and money…
From the monthly archives:
When MP3 blogs emerged a few years ago, I remember thinking “this can’t possibly go on, the record companies will squash these people.” Then again, the most popular musicbloggers more or less voluntarily adopted a fairly reasonable code of conduct. Note how Matthew from Fluxblog urges his readers to buy music on his sidebar, how [...]
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I had always been bemused by the bold-type claim on Divshare’s site that they would host unlimited amounts of my media online for free, forever.
Indications are they will come up a few trillion eons short of the goal.
In the ongoing debate concerning campus-hosted versus third-party applications and services, it’s worth keeping episodes like these in [...]
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I got some great comments on my apocalyptic Waves post (one from an experienced body surfer) — and special thanks to Bob for pointing me to this zefrank video which does a lovely job of playing out the metaphor on the media side:
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So there’s been a definite negative tilt to my posts lately, but it hasn’t been all bad. Last Friday I co-facilitated a workshop pushing social software on a group of students who are leading Student Directed Seminars next semester. This is a phenomenal program here at UBC in which students propose and coordinate for-credit undergraduate [...]
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RSS Fountain, originally uploaded by Orin Optiglot.
It was more than four years ago that Stephen Downes whipped up a custom version of his edu_rss application for the Merlot conference being held here in Vancouver. [...]
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That question is a huge issue at stake in the ongoing Writers Guild strike.
I am well short of the information threshold required to express a meaningful opinion. But it’s clear the writers of the Daily Show didn’t lose their knack for making a comedic point when the paychecks dried up:
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If my recent post riffing on Waves seemed unduly alarmist (and I worried that it was, until I picked up my newspaper), you might want to check out someone who covers this ground with considerably more authority.
I listened to this podcast interview (23:24min) with Thomas Homer-Dixon almost immediately after I wrote that post, and [...]
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UBC Forestry Building, originally uploaded by D’Arcy Norman.
Just came out a planning meeting for Northern Voice, and while we are behind schedule in terms of logistical planning (call it the Darren and Julie in Malta [...]
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The tourist amenities and the beaches in San Juan are first-rate, so with the meetings complete, and my own workload in only a modest state of disrepair, I decided to take a day of rest along the island’s Atlantic coastline before returning home.
The water temperature was absolutely perfect. I’ve never swam in such powerful waves, [...]
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At night, sections of old San Juan are transformed into something like a giant open air nightclubopolis… with every form of party music imaginable, salsa to rock to electronica (Pete Tong will mix there soon) throbbing out of bars all along the streets and cobblestone walkways that are so peaceful and quaint during the day. [...]
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