Hapgood

Mike Caulfield's latest web incarnation. Networked Learning, Open Education, and Online Digital Literacy

  • The Partisan and the Political

    The Partisan and the Political This is right, mostly: But by conflating partisanship and ideology, elite discourse tends to discredit the latter; thus, just as elites tend to cloak their ideological program in the veil of post-partisanship, contemporary popular movements sometimes attempt to do the same. But they, too, are ideological whether they want to… Continue reading

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  • It’s Not How Many Followers You Have, It’s Who Follows You

    It’s Not How Many Followers You Have, It’s Who Follows You Yglesias gets it right — a lot of these viral success stories sold as the annals of  meritocracy are anything but. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen, it just happens a lot less than you’d think. Continue reading

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  • Inequality and economic growth. From the IMF, which I hope is using this to rethink its approach… Continue reading

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  • The crowdsourcing scalability problem (or the thinness of the cognitive surplus gruel)

    I’m sure someone has mentioned this, but the interesting thing if you look at Wikipedia is how many editing hours have gone into each page. Shirky says there’s a hundred million hours put into Wikipedia. There’s an estimated 342,768 full articles in Wikipedia.  That’s about 291 hours per article. I don’t know what they get to write an… Continue reading

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  • Leisure Leaf-Diving with fam unit, on a fine New England autumn weekend. Continue reading

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  • Critiquing the MetaMovement

    So when I heard the Occupy Everything movement referred to as a “MetaMovement” I thought — at last, someone has nailed my ambivalence. It turned out I was wrong about what the coiner of that phrase meant. But here is what the MetaMovement should mean — There is a core of the movement that is… Continue reading

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  • World’s Simplest Stimulus Plan: Student Loan Holiday?

    I’ve become cynical enough in this space that I thought nothing could surprise me. I was wrong. This is shocking: Of the nearly $1.5 trillion in loans that US students have ever taken out on record, about $900 billion of it hasn’t been repaid. Yes, there are, according to the best estimate available, around some… Continue reading

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  • Occupy Wall Street protesters irked by rising student debt in U.S.

    Occupy Wall Street protesters irked by rising student debt in U.S. Worth remembering: they may be occupying Wall Street, but for many younger people in the crowd their main issue with the financial sector is student debt, and by extension, cost of college. Maybe someone should do something about that? Continue reading

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  • Ed Roulette Project Is Off and Running

    Jim Groom, Tim Owens, and I have started talking about how to make Ed Roulette a reality.  Please take 5 minutes of your time and check out the short wireframe walkthrough of how the application would work and let us know if you can help us build it, test it, popularize it. It’s a killer… Continue reading

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  • Jobs / Joggers

    I never really was a big Steve Jobs fan.  Back in I think 1999 I bought what i think was possibly hardware MP3 player ever manufactured, the Rio 300. It could fit less than an hour’s worth of music at 128 kbps.  Here’s the thing most people don’t remember about the Rio — at the time… Continue reading

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