January 2008

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 to open up the research process, one that can be conducted grounded in reason, not [...]

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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 remarkable number of people who I had never met personally but felt like I knew [...]

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…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, parsing, specifying. The man never tires, never even hesitates in the face of the enormous task [...]

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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 Arthur Danto does pretty well… It’s a real-world application of Rube Goldberg effects, the kind [...]

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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.

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 iconic kids show entitled Geometry of Circles back in 1979?
Trippy trippy… I grew up on [...]

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 original post, it is that open education takes many forms… I, for one, think that [...]

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RSS From CommentPress in SL, originally uploaded by NMC Second Life.

I’m still waiting to see the example that fully demonstrates its potential, but I think CommentPress (a very slick WordPress theme/hack from The Future [...]

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Peace, Love, and Linux, originally uploaded by kino-eye.

I probably should put up a post about Seven Second Delay, or something, anything to interrupt this string of three consecutive posts that just recycle something David Wiley [...]