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Nicholas Carr’s  ‘Experiments in delinkification’ includes (and depends for its rationale on) the following statement: “People who read hypertext comprehend and learn less, studies show, than those who read the same material in printed form”. But this deserves (needs!) at … Continue reading →

An unfortunate link from Arts&Letters Daily led to this silly article by David B Hart in First Things. The article presents itself as a review of the recently published 50 Voices of Disbelief but after briefly dismissing a number of … Continue reading →

Stephen Downes endorses Hillary Clinton’s recent comments on internet freedom. I especially appreciate his reminder that the value of the internet arises from the participation of all of us, both individually as users and contributors of content, and collectively through … Continue reading →

From the MathForum newsletter: << David Crockett Johnson was perhaps most famous for his children’s book Harold and the Purple Crayon. From 1965 until his death in 1975, Crockett Johnson painted over 100 works relating to mathematics and mathematical physics. … Continue reading →

Media Democracy Day Vancouver – November 7, 2009 | Media Democracy Day.

xkcd – A Webcomic – Locke and Demosthenes.

Copyright/ Fair Dealing | DOC | Documentary Organization of Canada

How to Find Your Facebook Status RSS Feed

Speak Out On Copyright is a new forum initiated by Michael Geist to encourage and support responses to the current Canadian consultation process re copyright law revisions.

Reason vs. Faith: the Battle Continues – ChronicleReview.com

Find broken links on your site with Xenu’s Link Sleuth TM Links for further reading Wired article: Rotten Links Hamper Learning The study: Broken Links: Just How Rapidly Do Science Education Hyperlinks Go Extinct? Another study: Digital libraries and World … Continue reading →

At course.downes.ca Stephen Downes is discussing and experimenting with delivery of on-line courses via Serialized RSS.

Philosophy Talk: The Blog: William James and the Squirrel Example. Yes, James does seem to be confounding a number of issues in that lecture His resolution of the squirrel dispute (“Which party is right,” I said, “depends on what you … Continue reading →

Freeman Dyson’s HERETICAL THOUGHTS ABOUT SCIENCE AND SOCIETY as expressed in “the Edge” are a source of some disappointment and frustration to me. Skepticism about a bandwagon is always appropriate, and even more so is it about the various claims … Continue reading →

A Washington journalist announces that for a period of over 24 hours the only person who chose to read his free on-line bio with any care was a “self-appointed hall monitor”. If someone was paying me in the hope that … Continue reading →

Simon Blackburn reviews Harry G. Frankfurt’s ‘OnTruth’ (in Powell’s Books in the The New Republic Online) and in the end finds it ‘Bullshit’ “And when I think of Frankfurt’s resolute silence about the philosophical tradition from, say, Protagoras onward, I … Continue reading →

Contrary Brin: More Potpourri – science and politics! is worth it for this quote: “For many years I have spiced up some speeches (about memes) with the notion that we must “CRUSH every other worldview that does not preach tolerance!” … Continue reading →