Monthly Archives: July 2008

Practical Internet Politics: Understanding Block and Blame, Catch and Release

Posted on July 27, 2008 by

I loved reading Jon Udell’s post on net-enhanced democracy. Back in 2006, when I started to do what Jon did so wonderfully in his essay, the hope was exactly this — that some generally less political individuals would take these … Continue reading →

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My new job with the OpenCourseWare Consortium

Posted on July 24, 2008 by

I’m excited beyond words to annouce that starting August 25th I will be working for the OpenCourseWare Consortium as their first Director of Community Outreach. Or at least we think that’s the title of the position. This is the job … Continue reading →

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Practical Art and Stallman, revisited

Posted on July 21, 2008 by

I started to type this as a response to the gracious comment Ismael left me on the Stallman post, but it quickly got big, so I am putting it here: Ismael writes: The rationale behind my quote of his about … Continue reading →

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Why Fan Fiction proves Richard Stallman wrong

Posted on July 20, 2008 by

When I saw this summary of part of Stallman’s talk in Barcelona, it irked me: When a work embodies practical knowledge you’re going to use for your life, it should be free and it should be free to be modified. … Continue reading →

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Sakai, Blackboard, and the Bridge to Nowhere

Posted on July 17, 2008 by

If you want to understand why the word-that-must-not-be-named spread like wildfire, you need only read the Inside Higher Ed article on Blackboard “partnering with Syracuse University to develop a way to integrate Blackboard with Sakai.” Jim has a nice post … Continue reading →

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Offlining site now online

Posted on July 11, 2008 by

I’ve created a new site that bascially aggregates the offlining posts from this site: Offline Thinking. The idea is to eventually get others to post on it as well via tag based syndication. The design of the site is stripped-down … Continue reading →

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Blowhardization hits the Windy City

Posted on July 10, 2008 by

So last month we had an embarrassment of riches with intelligent articles on the perils of multitasking and the online rabbit hole. This month, please welcome blowhardization, the inevitable second round of the public multitasking debate where bloviators are given … Continue reading →

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Carr’s “Is Google Making Us Stupid”, Rosen’s “Myth of Multitasking”

Posted on July 5, 2008 by

It seems every year for the past several years there’s been a couple of weeks where there is a flurry of intelligent articles about the dangers of multitasking and the hivemind. Then the inevitable blowhardization of the subject sets in, … Continue reading →

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Offlining Experiment #1: Disengaging from the hivemind using Sony Reader

Posted on July 4, 2008 by

Tools used: Sony Reader (yeah, I know, should have waited for the Kindle) T-Mobile Dash I needed to read some of the latest articles on the perils of multitasking (we seem to be in our yearly cycle here). Figured this … Continue reading →

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Offlining

Posted on July 3, 2008 by

I’m in the process of creating a new blog, Offlining, which will deal with my experiments in “offlining” (yep, a new neologism) — the practice of disconnecting from some or all of the network in order to increase productivity and … Continue reading →

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