Category Archives: web

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

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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).

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It Was 20 Years Ago Today

that Sir Timmy taught the world to play

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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’.

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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

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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

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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

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BCcampus OER site – Free Learning at EdTechPost

Scott Leslie writes about the BCcampus Open Educational Resources site with some new ideas for using social networking sites like del.icio.us

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Canadians Need Net-Neutrality

Take Action: Say NO to Corporate Control Open Letter to CRTC Chair Konrad von Finckenstein: Dear Sir, Canadians rely on the CRTC, as the federal communications regulator, to act in the public interest, which in this case means ensuring we … Continue reading

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Goodbye College Diplomas ?

Stephen Downes links to Tom Haskins saying Goodbye College Diplomas Thank god that the time will soon arrive when a prospective employer will not be denied the pleasure of reading all my undergrad essays but will instead be able to … Continue reading

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Online, R U Really Reading?

Literacy Debate – Online, R U Really Reading? – Series – NYTimes.com But what do they think I just did with that article? I read it online!

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Attention Returns to Distraction

A couple of weeks ago I posted briefly on (one of the many responses to) Nicholas Carr’s article in the current Atlantic Monthly. Now I am reading another article on the topic. Bryan Appleyard in the Sunday Times refers to … Continue reading

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I Google, therefore I Don’t Think

My friend Gerry Pareja sent this article by John Naughton from The Observer, responding (I think very well) to Nicholas Carr’s ‘Is Google Making Us Stupid?‘ in The Atlantic, but I can’t say that its arrival is what distracted me … Continue reading

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Web Critic Gets it Wrong…

Mike Caulfield provides a brilliant rebuttal of a rather silly column (by Monica Hesse in the Washington Post) supporting the ideas of Andrew Keen about the supposed relative unreliability of the web relative to print. (This came to me via … Continue reading

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More on Free Copying and Levies

Michael Geist has reported briefly on the defense by SAC of its proposal for an internet levy to compensate copyright holders for legalization of file sharing. But what I really want to link to is the first comment following Michael’s … Continue reading

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60 Quality AJAX Resources and Tutorials – Software Developer

60 Quality AJAX Resources and Tutorials – Software Developer This is just something for me to look at more closely when I get time

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mathschallenge.net

mathschallenge.net Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic

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NYTimes Reviews Andrew Keen’s Nonsense

In The Cult of the Amateur – Andrew Keen – Books – Review – New York Times Michiko Kakutani delivers a fawning review of Andrew Keen’s diatribe against open media. According to Kakutani Mr. Keen argues that “what the Web … Continue reading

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OLPC&CoL

This from Stephen Downes is, for me, a reminder to consider whether any of my stuff might be useful One Laptop Per Child and/or the Commonwealth of Learning.

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