Author Archives: Brian

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } clouds, originally uploaded by dltq. Preparing for my Friday talk at this week’s Open Education Conference … Continue reading →

My Mashup of Mike’s Mashup of My Mashup, originally uploaded by cambodia4kidsorg. I’ve already acknowledged my fuzziness around the implications of the various clauses of a Creative Commons license. In my hyper-simplistic way I have come to be convinced by … Continue reading →

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Lost in Transmission, originally uploaded by Lawrence Whittemore. …as every spare moment I’ve had this week … Continue reading →

… pointed me to this new short film demonstrating Google docs put together by Lee Lefever et al, the same folks who’ve been building the wonderful CommonCraft series of short films demonstrating the principles of Web 2.0. Via the same … Continue reading →

The questions that Professor Wiley poses for discussion to open the course seem straightforward enough, but I have found them vexing. I have to recognise that I don’t necessarily have a firm grip on some fairly fundamental issues. I have … Continue reading →

Rather belatedly, I’ve become quite a fan of Bruce Sterling’s work as trend-spotter and tech pundit. I can see why he’s a bit much for some people, he rubbed me the wrong way for some time, and I have yet … Continue reading →

I’ve had some intermittent fun with the New Forms Festival here in Vancouver over the years. Kinski were kind enough to melt my frontal lobe, and I had fun at Art Camp last year doing the cassette shuffle with Draggin … Continue reading →

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Corn truck!, originally uploaded by Chuckumentary. I’ve thought for a while that the way someone talks … Continue reading →