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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: January 2008
Habits of mind, new media studies and the curriculum
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } HAL Beta 0.66, originally uploaded by jurvetson. I’m back from the ELI Annual Meeting in San … Continue reading
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Wikipedia and new media literacies – a perfect test case is already underway
Henry Jenkins ELI Keynote address is podcasted here. Jenkins opened with the sensible observation that contrary to media reports, Middlebury College’s much ballyhooed “banning” of Wikipedia was in fact a reasonable first step toward generating a dialogue, and an opportunity … Continue reading
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ELI Annual Meeting, Web 2.0 Storytelling
It’s a huge treat to be in San Antonio for this year’s ELI Annual Meeting. The first morning was more than a little overwhelming as I’ve met a succession of some of my favorite people in the field, and a … Continue reading
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This barely qualifies as a post…
…but a couple of thoughts prompted by reading this post from Gardner Campbell: I think there’s a strong streak of Aristotelian propositional method in the idea of a data-driven web. Read the Poetics and wonder at Aristotle’s indefatigable defining, analyzing, … Continue reading
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Fischli und Weiss: Der Lauf der Dinge – in DivX!
This remarkable short film from Peter Fischli and David Weiss, usually translated as The Way Things Go would seem to me a classic example of a work you need to see to get it, the piece really defies description. Though … Continue reading
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Visualizations of malware…
Images generated from the code of cyber threats. Not sure they help me to understand viruses any better, but they sure are purty pictures. Via Infocult.
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Philip Glass on Sesame Street
Thanks to my buddy Luke the Drifter for turning me on to a bunch of videos at his place last night. Did you know that minimalist composer Philip Glass did the music for a series of short films for the … Continue reading
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WikiEducator pioneers collaborative video, is just plain cool…
In a comment to my recent ill-considered ramblings on OpenCourseWare, Leigh Blackall advocated ‘truly OPEN source and not just “free”‘ approaches to open education. Point taken — if there is one additional point I wish I had made in that … Continue reading
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Now I’ll just recycle Alan Levine and Jim Groom
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } RSS From CommentPress in SL, originally uploaded by NMC Second Life. I’m still waiting to see … Continue reading
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In which Abject Learning completes the transition to becoming a David Wiley re:blog
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Peace, Love, and Linux, originally uploaded by kino-eye. I probably should put up a post about … Continue reading
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