Sep

24

The internet society – time to get real : Matthew Taylor via @josiefraser

September 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment

It [the Internet] is as much a new opium for the people as a catalyst for democratic awakening.
via matthewtaylorsblog.com
This is as true in the “free” west as in the various “authoritarian regimes” identified. It is just that it is not the government regimes or apparatus of the states in the west that are producing and [...]

Sep

21

Online Database of Social Media Policies via @dtssmithers

September 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Social Media Governance

Empowerment with Accountability

via socialmediagovernance.com
Now that is a useful link: a page of links to the social media policies of 82 organisations such as the American Red Cross, BBC, Cisco, EFF, Dow Jones as well as a host of universities and Web2.0 companies. Policy wonks, enjoy!

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Sep

20

Can we assemble around tag cloud normalisation @jiscssbr @cheeky-geeky

September 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment

I wonder if there is a WordPress or other blogging platform plug-in that uses a mash-up to suggest tags from an underlying, emerging vocabulary formed from various social knowledge sites?
 Within a social tagging system such as Diigo, Delicious, Technorati, Digg, Twine: even in your own blog, tags and categories emerge and are guided. One’s own [...]

Sep

20

Fallacious Celebrations of Facebook Fans via @cheeky_geeky

September 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment

They’re so organized at America’s Next Top Model that we might consider asking them to inform people about the resurgent H1N1 flu virus.  We might also consider hiring Bravo’s producers as government public affairs consultants.
If you think I’m joking about that, you probably have no business working with social media for the government.

via briansolis.com
Asks all [...]

Sep

20

Faviki social bookmarking based on emergent (?) ontology dBwiki

September 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Faviki is a social bookmarking tool that allows you to tag webpages you want to remember using Wikipedia terms. This means that everybody uses the same names for tags from the world’s largest collection of knowledge
via faviki.wordpress.com
If the wikipedia ontology: dBwiki and the ontologies from Delicious, Digg and Diigo could be mashed up into a [...]

Sep

19

Science of the Invisible: Poem 180909

September 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment

In the hallwayBlack bin bags of VHS tapesRemember when this wasLearning technology
via scienceoftheinvisible.blogspot.com
I like it
in the hallway black bin bags of VHS tapes new technology
(haiku-ized)

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Sep

19

Is Twitter “Not a Conversational Platform”? @cheeky_geeky – O’Reilly Radar

September 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Here I argue that the underlying mechanics of Twitter more closely resemble the knowledge co-creation seen in wikis than the dynamics seen with conversational tools like instant messaging and interactions within online social networks.
via radar.oreilly.com
This article significantly deepens our understanding of Twitter, but I do not think the either/or structure or negation in the title [...]

Sep

11

Structure101 Tour – Define architecture / dependency rules for Anything

September 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Prevention is better than cure. Structure101 allows you to define how the world should be, promote a shared vision through the team, and enforce (or just monitor) conformance.
via headwaysoftware.com
Wow. How far would they go to do that?

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Sep

10

ITTE: education is fluid, non-linear, iterative (chaos innit?) #falt09 #altc2009

September 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment

IT in Teacher Education (ITTE)
 Session: http://altc2009.alt.ac.uk/talks/show/6869
 Barriers-research to understanding factors that inhibit IT practice in a fluid, nonlinear, iterative culturally complex world. Pathway is not an appropriate way to describe this multi branched space: cultural cartography or learning terrains. Communities (of practice) are the answer?
 cites Beetham, McGill & Littlejohn 2009
 CF Brown Lauder & Ashton 2008
[...]

Sep

10

Two 72-hour txt sims are mini ARGs #altc2009 #falt09

September 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Sarah Cornelius describes two 72-hour SMS simulations using edutxt (http://www.edutxt.co.uk). These are small alternative reality games (ARGs), or models of social action that run in real-time.
 Session is here: http://altc2009.alt.ac.uk/talks/show/6869 Slides: http://altc2009.alt.ac.uk/attachments/0000/4429/alt-c_2009_sim.pps
 - Flood Sim: Flood control. You are the local civil defence chief faced with a flood event based on Vaison la Romaine floods of [date]. [...]

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