Author Archives: Brian

About Brian

I am a Strategist and Discoordinator with UBC's Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology. My main blogging space is Abject Learning, and I sporadically update a short bio with publications and presentations over there as well...

Shhh! The bloggy is sleeping…

Posted on October 23, 2004 by Brian

I recognise this space was far too quiet during the EDUCAUSE Conference (though thanks to Stephen D’s fabulous targetted Edu_RSS feed there is a one stop shop for all things blogged at this event). I have things to share, buzzy … Continue reading →

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Ripping, mixing, feeding at EDUCAUSE

Posted on October 20, 2004 by Brian

For me, it doesn’t get better than working with Alan Levine. So it was an honour and a gas to crank it up again for the EDUCAUSE Conference, where we delivered a pre-conference workshop officially entitled “Decentralization of Learning Resources: … Continue reading →

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[Textologies] – Newsreader – textual remix on the fly

Posted on October 6, 2004 by Brian

News Reader is software for reading and playing the network news environment. News Reader initially offers the current “top stories” from Yahoo! News — which are always drawn from mainstream sources. Playing these stories brings forth texts generated from alternative … Continue reading →

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[Textologies] – Two useful resources

Posted on October 6, 2004 by Brian

Via Scott Leslie at EdTechPost, comes a nifty service from RedLightGreen: RedLightGreen is a service from the Research Libraries Group (get it?) that allows users to search over 130 million library catalogue entries. The user can then automatically create citations … Continue reading →

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Will Wait for Waits

Posted on October 3, 2004 by Brian

I heard the news Friday night – Tom Waits was adding another show to his upcoming performance in Vancouver (a show at the Orpheum Theatre that had sold out before I’d even heard about it)… one of only two stops … Continue reading →

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[Textologies] – High-tech highbrow stalking

Posted on September 30, 2004 by Brian

Oh my, this is sooooo groovy. ‘Following “The Man of the Crowd”‘ is a 24-hour walk in which two participants, linked by text messaging, drift separately through the city in an alternating pattern according to the movements of strangers. Based … Continue reading →

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BC Commons and an IP middle ground…

Posted on September 30, 2004 by Brian

Yesterday Scott Leslie noted that he hadn’t seen seen news of the BC Commons licence “make the rounds of the blogosphere”. Today my short article on educational IP and BC Commons is being posted via UBC’s e-Strategy newsletter. I tried … Continue reading →

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Fun with metatags (?)(!)

Posted on September 28, 2004 by Brian

As Joi Ito recently wrote on his blog: “Things have been getting very taggy around here ever since I started using del.icio.us.” I can relate, though I’m still a satisfied Furl user. My own taggy conversion experience has come via … Continue reading →

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[Textologies] – Reactive Books by John Maeda

Posted on September 28, 2004 by Brian

P22 is pleased to offer a selection of artist books which transcend the traditional limits and interactions of paper and the computer. These unique books were created by digital artist, John Maeda and produced by our Japanese associates, Digitalogue. John … Continue reading →

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Best use of Flickr tags I’ve seen (so far, today)

Posted on September 27, 2004 by Brian

dscn6382-94 Originally uploaded by Bertrand. And it looks like a yummy lemon pie recipe at that. Click through to see what I mean. This opens up some groovy possibilities. Via randomWalks.

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