Stephen Downes

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Infoworld
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Strategies for Internet Citizens
Weblog
Jon's Radio
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Jon Udell
The New Stack

Recent Posts

Nobody Expects the Spontaneous Integration
My Conversation With Mr. Safe
Using RSS 2.0 and RDF Together
Symbol Grounding and Extensible Aggregators
RSS to replace email? Nah.
Reuse: Patterns and Antipatterns
The Wardriver and the Cop
One-click RSS Subscriptions, Continued: The Lesser of Two Evils?
How Dynamic Categories Work
More Firefox Search Plugins
The Social Enterprise
The Semantic Web, Digital Identity, and Internet Governance
Libraries and the Internet
Management by Objects
Building Stuff on Top of Stuff
Where Was Desktop Search When We Needed It?
Blogosphere Subscription Trends
Implementing Real-world Structured Searches
Collective Mind Probes
On Business/Education Partnership
A Conversation with Jean-Claude Bradley About Open Notebook Science and the Educational Uses of Second Life
Turning Internet Feeds Into TV Feeds
I Have Met the Enemy and It Is Tribalism
Will HeathVault Help Create a Market for Translucent Medical Records? I Hope So.
That Word, Syndication, I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means
Introducing SpokenWord.Org
Twitter kills the password anti-pattern, but at what cost?
The Priciple of Indirection
Highlighting passages doesn’t aid my memory, but speaking them does
A small blog neighborhood hiding in plain sight
Designing for least knowledge
A virtuous cycle for analytics
SQL: The Universal Solvent for REST APIs
Of course the attention economy is threatened by the Fediverse
MCP Is RSS for AI: More Use Cases for Model Context Protocol