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Real violence, real communities
Alec Couros tells us about an all-too-real brush with violence in his family in a recent post. It was a tough reminder to me to pay closer attention to the people close at hand. I spend too much time in my virtual environments, to the point of neglecting those closest to me. [...] From
Rick's Café Canadien on November 20, 2005 at 10:52 p.m..
Get Back in the Box:
Thought Virus #3: Social Currency
Here's the next excerpt from my upcoming book,
Get Back in the Box: Innovation from the Inside Out. This one is an idea I had a couple of years ago, and it ended up being the inspiration for the whole book. Thanks to the emergence of the Internet and its networked culture, a whole lot about our needs - both as consumers and as workers"has been put into perspective. Success has a variety of definitions and dimensions, and many of them are changing. For instance, the most respected kids in the culture of computer From
rushkoff.blog on November 20, 2005 at 7:45 p.m..
Get Back in the Box
Thought Virus 3: Everything Matters
Another excerpt from my upcoming book,
Get Back in the Box: Innovation from the Inside Out. This one touches on the difference between today's renaissance and the last one - that one with the capital 'R'. Remember - a renaissance merely revivifies the strains repressed by the one before...As I see it, we're still trying to coast, using the reductive strategies of the last Renaissance, while resisting the potential for innovation that this one offers us. If anything, the end of the Industrial Age might best be From
rushkoff.blog on November 20, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..
E-learning is NOT Knowledge Management
Ein Dauerbrenner ist die Frage nach dem Verhältnis von e-Learning und Knowledge Management. Mit einer eindeutigen Tendenz über alle Artikel hinweg: Beides gehört zusammen! Hier reiht sich auch der vorliegende Artikel ein, indem er zuerst die Sünden der vergangenen Jahre... From
www.weiterbildungsblog.de on November 20, 2005 at 5:51 p.m..
Gizmo
As long as my quick launch toolbar doesn't quite have enough icons to fill up the entire width of my screen, I'll keep
Tim Lauer in my
aggregator. Not only has he done some really cool things with these technologies at his school, he is without question one of the best at finding new tools and apps to play with.
Gizmo is like
Skype except you can record your conversations. Nice. Since the thought of me dron From
weblogged News on November 20, 2005 at 5:47 p.m..
Inflaming the infrastructure
[Plane is boarding. I'll add links later.] A week ago, I wrote a quick response to a
NWP listserv (yes, listserv -ugh) thread about blogging vs. websites. I meant it as inflammatory. Unfortunately, its content did not inflame the discussion I was hoping for. A casual reference to being a happily fault-accepting ex-Catholic did, however, inflame. Ah - to be disruptive in an age of religiosity tumescent and secularism gone soft! Anyway, it was a cautionary experience in blogging vs. listserv-ing that will - ahem - serve me well in the fut From
homoLudens III on November 20, 2005 at 5:46 p.m..
Sony CD DRM Can Be Evaded With Piece of Tape
See
this report from Gartner researchers Martin Reynolds and Mike McGuire. Just another level of bizarre stupidity in this mess. Reynolds and McGuire sum it up nicely: "Sony BMG's DRM technology will prevent neither informed casual copiers nor high-volume 'pirates' from doing whatever they like with the content the disc [sic]. It does, however, load 'stealth' software — software that has been demonstrated to have suspect e From
A Copyfighter's Musings on November 20, 2005 at 4:48 p.m..
Tipping Education's Sacred Cow: Reconsidering the Lecture
Avi Zenilman
writes in Slate magazine that the ubiquity of wifi networks on University campuses is wreaking havoc with one of education's most sacred institutions: the auditorium style lecture. Turns out, all those students assembled in the lecture hall aren't really listening to their Professor and using their laptops to take notes. Instead, they're (surprise!) reading e-maiil, surfing the web, and trading IMs. But while UCLA, Stanford, and other guardians of the past consider From
The Electric Lyceum on November 20, 2005 at 3:49 p.m..
elearning solutions in industry
More notes from the elearning summit. Karl Guenther, FedEx. “Measuring Training Effectiveness”. The challenge: “I want to see ROI, or I may not fund the program anymore”. Calculating Return on Investment for a cultural sensitivity course. Lessons learned. How to measure ROI: Word on the street—training recipients testimonials.Account executive testimonials.Measuring pre-training and post-training knowledge. Results showed dramatic increases in content [...] From
Martindale Matrix on November 20, 2005 at 1:46 p.m..
Tossing aside the magazine
NY Times reporter John Leland: It is a symptom of our age that most people find any piece of writing too long. (11) Of course maybe that means the schools are weak; of course maybe that means people are selfish or shallow, unable to get past the near horizon of their own lives. But what if it is a clue, instead, to an alienation that people have been unable to defeat? What if people won't read yet another piece of writing by one variety of power insider or... From
Weblogs in Higher Education on November 20, 2005 at 11:51 a.m..
GMiF: Google Maps in Flickr...
If the image is not yet geotagged, you can navigate within the map to the location where the photo was taken, and once you have the image location, you can add geotags to the image... A slide show mode is also available which automatically pans your map to show additional geotagged images in the Flickr photo stream you are viewing... From
Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on November 20, 2005 at 11:48 a.m..
With this EULA I thee wed...
Christina Aguilera required the 150 guests at her wedding to sign a three-page confidentiality agreement before they were allowed into the event. "Banned subjects included the cake, the rings, entertainment, speeches, food, the venue and other guests." I wonder if her pre-nup has a non-compete? And on a semi-related note, there's a very good article in the Guardian by Andrew Brown on why thinking of ideas as property is screwy and destructive [Tag: DigitalRights].... From
Joho the Blog on November 20, 2005 at 10:49 a.m..
It's getting harder to hide from your customers
Go to Google Base and search for "gold's gym" (no quotes required). (Clicking here will perform the search for you.) The first entry, at least today, is from Mark Dionne who provides Gold's corporate address, information that Gold's Gym doesn't like to make public, perhaps to ignore letters from unhappy customers such as Mark. [Tags: google marketing]... From
Joho the Blog on November 20, 2005 at 10:49 a.m..
With this EULA I thee wed...
Christina Aguilera required the 150 guests at her wedding to sign a three-page confidentiality agreement before they were allowed into the event. "Banned subjects included the cake, the rings, entertainment, speeches, food, the venue and other guests." I wonder if her pre-nup has a non-compete?... From
Joho the Blog on November 20, 2005 at 9:46 a.m..
What I'm not reading in Thailand
I brought
Best Food Writing 2005, edited by Holly Hughes, along with me on this trip so that I would be inspired to write great things about the food I've been eating. Alas, all the walking and sightseeing and eating wears me out, and by the tim From
megnut on November 20, 2005 at 7:45 a.m..
From Bangkok to the Old South
Sorry for the lack of updates: somehow I've become sick. At first I thought it was allergies, but my allergy medicine didn't seem to do anything. The sneezing and runny nose grew worse, exacerbated by temple incense, crazy aromatherapy oils at the Chatuchak market, and Bangkok exhaust fumes. By yesterday, I was exhausted and worn out. So after an early dinner From
megnut on November 20, 2005 at 7:45 a.m..
Eat, Sleep, Work, Consume, Die - Tony Long, Wired
...Look around. Our collective humanity is dying a little more every day. Technology is killing life on the street -- the public commons, if you please. Chat rooms, text messaging, IM are all, technically, forms of communication. But when they replace yak From
Techno-News Blog on November 20, 2005 at 2:46 a.m..
UN slates online costs for poor - BBC
Most countries realise the net has enormous benefits. The cost of fast net access and linking up to the net's global infrastructure hits poorer nations much harder than developed countries, says a UN body. The UN Conference on Trade and Development (Unc From
Techno-News Blog on November 20, 2005 at 2:46 a.m..