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Blue Hampshire’s Death Spiral
Blue Hampshire, a political community I gave years of my life to, is in a death spiral. The front page is a ghost town. It’s so depressing, I won’t even link to it. It’s so depressing, that I haven’t been able to talk about it until now. It actually hurts that much. This is a Continue reading
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The OS-Based Lifestream Will Kill the Mega-Site, Continued
Back in January, one of my predictions was that the “Revenge of the OS” would accelerate. The idea was that Google and Apple didn’t need to compete with Facebook, because Google and Apple actually owned the one lifestream that mattered — the notifications panel of your smartphone. Facebook’s monopoly was in fact broken and the age Continue reading
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All the Versions of the Amelia Bedelia Wikipedia Entry
I should probably stop talking about the federated aspects of Smallest Federated Wiki — as I mentioned before, whether federation works or not for any given use case is speculative. There is no way to come to real agreement about it since it relies on us making predictions about how people will act in a Continue reading
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Amelia Bedelia’s Hats Are Not the Problem
So there’s been an Ameila Bedelia Wikipedia hoax. We learn that Amelia was not inspired by a maid from Cameroon who wore sensational hats, a “fact” cited in a vandalism which survived on the site since 2009. Yawn. First, let me say in a world where Elsevier was recently discovered to have published half a dozen Continue reading
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Plagairism and Evolution and Attribution Statements
The big news right now in social media-land is that a Buzzfeed editor is a plagairist. Here’s coverage on that from TPM: In one particularly damning example, Johnson allegedly copied a 2009 post on Yahoo! answers. “Throughout the London Blitz, over a million incendiaries and around 50,000 high explosive bombs were dropped on London,” wrote Continue reading
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Federated Wiki for Distributed Notetaking (and the surprising pedagogical implications of that)
I mentioned earlier that I’d decided to change my explanation of federated wiki from a “top-down” explanation to a “bottom-up” one. It makes a heck of a difference. I made this video below for one of our faculty, to show how even something as simple as notes becomes an integrative exercise in federated wiki. I Continue reading
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Reclaim Hackathon
Kin and Audrey have already written up pretty extensive summaries about the Reclaim event in Los Angeles. I won’t add much. Everything was wonderful, and I hope I don’t upset people by choosing one thing over another. But there were a few things for me that stood out. Seeing the Domain of One’s Own development Continue reading
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Doug Engelbart’s Grocery List
If you’ve watched the Mother of All Demos, you know that one of the aha! moments of it is when Engelbart pulls out his grocery list. The idea is pretty simple –if you put your grocery list into a computer instead of on a notepad, you could sort it, edit, clone it, categorize it, drag-and-drop Continue reading
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The Universal JSON Canvas and Ben’s Five Star Plugin
I’ve borrowed Jon Udell’s term (“universal canvas”) for talking about SFW. In this video I talk about a plugin my brother Ben wrote for SFW earlier this week, and try to show what that means in semi-mechanical terms. One of the things I think it starts to show is how much of a construction kit Continue reading
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No More Secret Sauce Analytics
I’ve gotten two calls from reporters in the past week asking me about the “dangers of analytics” in higher education. I’m always quite careful to say I think there’s a lot of promise for analytics in higher education. I can’t imagine a future where we’re not using analytics extensively to try and improve what we Continue reading
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