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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- Robot Flâneur: Exploring Google Street ViewThere must be a genre of sites like these... […]
- Jon Rafman 9eyesI wish there were links to the Google Streetview images... though the prospect that these images are staged just makes me like the site more... […]
- Mariachis in Mexico struggle despite U.N. heritage nodIndeed, mariachi's addition to the UNESCO list will probably mean little to the musicians who gather at places like Garibaldi. (The full-band price for a song, 150 pesos or about $11, has not changed since the Sunday news of the UNESCO list, several musicians acknowledged.) Here, drunken revelers show up to hire bands or trios for whatever song they mig […]
- Meet your Urban Farmer (trailer)"Over the coming months, starting in March 2012, we will be posting both short and long versions of our chat with each urban farmer. There will be approximately 18 interviews in total." […]
- Announcing the Open Data Handbook version 1.0 | Open Knowledge Foundation Blog"From a basic introduction of the ‘what and why’ of open data, the Handbook goes on to discuss the practicalities of making data open – the ‘how’. It gives advice on everything from choosing a file format and applying a license, to motivating the community and telling the world. Clear explanations, illustrative examples and technical recommendations mak […]
- Wikipedia Miner...a toolkit for tapping the rich semantics encoded within Wikipedia. It makes it easy to integrate Wikipedia's knowledge into your own applications, by: providing simplified, object-oriented access to Wikipedia's structure and content. measuring how terms and concepts in Wikipedia are connected to each other. detecting and disambiguating Wikipedia […]
- The Facebook Freaky Line — ScobleizerAs if I needed more confirmation on Scoble: "Others, like me, are “all in” and very intrigued with this new world. We’ve crossed the freaky line never to return to a world where apps don’t share with Facebook." […]
- Haussmann's renovation of Paris - Wikipedia"...under the guise of improving social and sanitary conditions, a project geared toward more effective military policing of the capital. Under this theory, the wide thoroughfares were constructed to facilitate troop movement and prevent easy blocking of streets with barricades, and their straightness allowed artillery to fire on rioting crowds and thei […]
- The Flaneur - The Arcades Project Project or The Rhetoric of Hypertext by Heather Marcelle Crickenberger'According to Benjamin, the flâneur disappeared as the commercial world slowly deserted the interior-exteriors of arcades for the carpeted, artificially lit department stores that were to replace them: "If in the beginning the street had become an intérieur for him, now this intérieur turned into a street, and he roamed though the labyrinth of merc […]
- Seasoned users shun spontaneity on the Web: survey"spontaneous use of the Internet fell to 21 percent in 2009/10 according to diaries kept by users in Brazil, Britain, France and Canada from 39 percent in 2007, when a similar survey was conducted in those countries." […]
- Robot Flâneur: Exploring Google Street View
Category Archives: OER
Why go open?
A View Out of the Front Door of my Kharkov Apartment shared CC by Stuck in Customs It’s been an ungodly amount of time since I updated my blogs. I thought I might reproduce an email I just sent off … Continue reading
Posted in OER, Open Content, Open Education, sustainability
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It will be an epic Open Access Week at UBC
Open Access shared CC by AJC1 I have a few more substantive posts brewing, but until I get a few minutes and a few more brain cells to rub together… I want to offer my congratulations to the team that … Continue reading
Posted in Higher Ed, OER, Open Content, tech/tools/standards, wikis
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Sustain this?
Wind farm and greenhouse gas farm, together shared CC by kevindooley I’m still finding my way with regards to the ‘sustainability’ part of my job. I know I’m new to this, at least professionally, so I’m trying to focus on … Continue reading
Posted in OER, Open Education, sustainability
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Fear and frothing in England
Freak Out shared CC by Parksy1964 Last July I was honoured to give the closing keynote for the JISC Open Educational Resources International Symposium in London, England. It was a terrifying prospect on a couple of levels… First off, I … Continue reading
Posted in Abject Learning, OER, Open Education
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A value proposition, basic respect, whatever…
Open Access Chalkboard shared CC by Gideon Burton An anecdote from Andre Malan’s must-read blog: I am currently working at a software company as an intern, writing a program. Now of course, as anybody who has taken Software Engineering knows (don’t … Continue reading
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Tagged Open Content, Open Education, openness
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Am I missing the point on open educational resources?
self-titled, originally uploaded by procsilas. I’m sitting in the opening session of the UOC UNESCO Chair in E-Learning Fifth International Seminar on Fighting the Digital Divide through Education (I believe you can follow the presentations via video). So I don’t … Continue reading
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