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Category Archives: technology
Shaw « Deep Packet Inspection
Shaw « Deep Packet Inspection. I do believe that DPI and related technologies will be abused by ISPs and media conglomerates if they are allowed to do so – and also that they should not have the option to arbitrarily … Continue reading
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iPod Levy Proposal Makes Sense
Michael Geist – Angus Defends iPod Levy Proposal. IF the “Canadian solution” of a media levy is valid (and I think it is), then there is no logical reason to distinguish in any way between different types of digital memory. … Continue reading
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OnLine Educational Resources
Scott Leslie may be on the right track with another 1/4-baked idea – OER “virtual reference librarian” at EdTechPost, but I suspect that it may be less with the idea itself than with the doubt he expresses as follows: <<Is … Continue reading
Stanford Study of Writing
The Stanford Study of Writing provides a welcome counterpoint to some of the nonsense that has been put about regarding impact of the internet on literacy.
Blog Action Day
This year’s Blog Action Day is devoted to the theme of Climate Change and an understanding of mathematics is certainly essential for anyone involved in making making decisions about how to respond to this issue (which in a democracy is … Continue reading
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Facebook Problems caused by Skype Firefox extension
Recently Facebook has been running very slow for me and even just hanging completely on page reload. I wasted a lot of time trying things within Facebook and after reading of many others with similar problems was even considered abandoning … Continue reading
Teaching math using interactive white boards
This interview with a recent convert to teaching math using interactive white boards includes a lot of good ideas for using the computer display but leaves me wondering what the IWB adds over what could be done with a tablet … Continue reading
WordPress Trackback Tutorial
I have always been a bit intimidated by bloggers’ talk of “Trackback” and “Pingback”, and am still unsure of whether they really do anything that isn’t just as easy to do “by hand”. I recently came across a Tutorial written … Continue reading
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Getting Smarter
This article shares some of my own reaction to the “internet is making us dumber” nonsense, as well as commenting on other possible sources of increasing global intelligence.
The SAC Double Negative Option
Howard Knopf doesn’t like The SAC Double Negative Option Celestial Jukebox, but I have to quarrel with a number of his reasons. Many of these have to do with defending the existing media levy schemes which unfairly extract funds from … Continue reading
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More Mythical Myths
EXCESS COPYRIGHT: More Myths about Myths about File Sharing
OnLine Editing
Wikis, GoogleDocs, and now Buzzword Documents all provide ways to share the editing of an online document (as do a number of other options).
Mythical Myths about Sustainability
Many of these Top 10 Myths about Sustainability are mythical in the sense that they are just elementary misconceptions that don’t qualify as myths because they are not widely held by intelligent adults, but “Myth 6: Sustainability means lowering our … Continue reading
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Yes, There *IS* an Elephant in the Room
AlterNet Article by Chris Hedges Rebuttal by Betsy Hartmann
CRTC Net Neutrality Hearings
Telecom Public Notice CRTC 2008-19, is the CRTC’s notice of proceedings and call for comments re forthcoming hearings on ‘Net Neutrality’.
Please Don’t Change That URL!
From BBC – Radio Labs – How we make websites comes this quote: It’s nice if URIs are human readable. It’s also nice if they’re hackable. It’s an absolute prerequisite that they’re persistent. Don’t sacrifice persistence for the sake of … Continue reading
Open Culture
Open Culture is a website developed by Dan Colman (who moonlights as the director of Stanford’s Continuing Studies program). It focuses on educational video offerings such as the Leonard Susskind Physics Lectures, and includes a page of links to other … Continue reading
David MacKay: Sustainable Energy – Without the Hot Air
In Sustainable Energy – without the hot air UK physicist David MacKay presents plausible back-of-the-envelope estimates of the scales of action needed under various strategies for reduction of global carbon fuel combustion. The numbers he uses are easily checked and … Continue reading
Internet Safer Than Thought vs Flickr Perversion
In contrast to this study (which I came to via Stephen Downes)showing that the internet just isn’t the danger to children it is often portrayed to be, we have Alec Couros reporting on Open Thinking & Digital Pedagogy » Blog … Continue reading