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

  • Jaw-droppingly stupid ruling on the Potter Lexicon

    Sorry, but this is horrendous news: A federal judge in New York today put the kibosh on the planned publication of a contentious book version of the popular (now defunct) fansite, ruling it violates Rowling’s creations. U.S. District Judge Robert Patterson Jr. dismissed defense arguments that the Lexicon was protected under fair-use provisions of copyright Continue reading

  • Business Installs

    Because I’d really forgotten what a typical business laptop looked like, I thought I’d not make trouble and just have my new job give me a standard business laptop. You know, being the new guy, I didn’t want to ask for all kind of weird blogger crap. It’s been kind of an interesting experience, because Continue reading

  • Diplopedia: an agile State Department?

    I’ve been looking for examples of agile solutions to real world problems to put into a presentation I’m giving on my last day here, and this one just fell into my lap today: IN the past, said Stacie R. Hankins, a special assistant at the United States Embassy in Rome, when the ambassador prepared to Continue reading

  • In which I’m “kind of” quoted in the New York Times

    So what happens when you’re in the middle of playing Halo, and someone from the New York Times calls you for off the cuff analysis? Well, this: But even without the straight ticket, Mike Caulfield, a co-founder of bluehampshire.com, a political Web site, said he expected Mrs. Shaheen to win. “People kind of treasure their Continue reading

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

    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 tools and do what poli-bloggers were doing — dig out the backstory and deflate the Continue reading

  • My new job with the OpenCourseWare Consortium

    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 that appeared in OLDaily some time ago as a marketing job. For me, there’s a Continue reading

  • Practical Art and Stallman, revisited

    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 art (not actually a literal quote, but actually faithful to what he said) was that: Continue reading

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  • Why Fan Fiction proves Richard Stallman wrong

    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. It’s not the case of art. Art should be shareable, but not modifiable. Caveats: this Continue reading

  • Sakai, Blackboard, and the Bridge to Nowhere

    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 on Blackboard’s co-option of “openness” in their statements on this project. As for me, I Continue reading

  • Offlining site now online

    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 WordPress template — the theme is meant to be ASCII-friendly in case you want to Continue reading