social learning, open education, and petty battles with rivals over power and money…
From the monthly archives:
Financial turmoil – whichever way you look at it!, originally uploaded by canonsnapper.
No question, a bad week for some traditional media heavyweights:
It’s been an especially rotten few days for people who type on deadline. On Tuesday, The Christian Science Monitor announced that, after a century, it would cease publishing a weekday paper. Time Inc., the [...]
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Dead iPhone, originally uploaded by mikeykrieger.
So, a few weeks ago I acquired a certain much-discussed handheld telecommunications device made by a certain corporation based in Cupertino. It wasn’t a step I took lightly for a few reasons… for one, I had relentlessly mocked the hype around Steve Jobs’ announcements of said device to my Apple-loving [...]
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I mentioned a couple posts back that we are running some courseblogs this semester on WordPress, with a range of approaches and configurations. One of these courses has all of the students working within one multi-authored courseblog, posting assignments and engaging in follow-up discussions via the comments… This particular course is part of a fully [...]
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I hadn’t really looked in on the blogs today, but I did take a peek at Twitter, and I got the impression from some of my trusted network of experts that @psychemedia had gone and done something that had gotten them rather excited…
So, I head over and start following the steps in Tony Hirst’s blog, [...]
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As it has for generations, Open Access Day at my house will involve insane travel stresses, endless hours of cooking and dishwashing, dangerously excessive alcohol consumption, the therapeutic airing of familial tensions, grievances and debates on the Creative Commons NC clause in shrieking tones, and falling asleep in front of the television watching an uncompetitive [...]
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PorcuJim, originally uploaded by Serenae.
So, we have very quietly been running some WordPress blogs for the past month or so. I say “quietly” because we are treating this is as something of testing phase. Not [...]
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An excerpt from Neil Postman’s 1985 book Amusing Ourselves to Death:
…information derives its importance from the possibilities of action. Of course, in any communication environment, input (what one is informed about) always exceeds output (the possibilities of action based on information). But the situation created by telegraphy, and then exacerbated by later technologies, made the [...]
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Banksy, originally uploaded by Pete Ashton.
This blog is rapidly approaching a state of hibernation. I have not even pointed toward the contribution that Jim Groom (with major assists from Tom Woodward and Serena Epstein, and [...]
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