You  know, I’ve always complained about the use of “broke” when applied to things like democracy. How simple, right? But over the past few days I’ve not been in my normal nuanced mood. I’ve said, in fifteen different ways over the past year, that our stream-based model of social media was making us dumber. But Continue reading

I could not sleep last night at all. So I organized my notes I’ve been taking over the last year on the problem of doing politics in advertising funded stream-based systems. I know this election was about so much more than that (so much more), and our problems are so much deeper. But I remain Continue reading

I’ve decided to write a book before the year is out. I’ve decided this because I think the most pressing current issue for Open Pedagogy practitioners in the U.S. right now is how we address a social media environment that seems to be bringing out many of our worst demons, and I think several years Continue reading