By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Montreal 2005
My head is full of ideas from today's BlogWalk, some of which will emerge in my talk tomorrow (if I ever get it written). In the meantime, here is a link to photos from Montreal before, after and during the snowstorm. More...
01 mars 2019
Reconfiguring Education
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Reconfiguring Education
In one of the weird artifacts of Radio Userland, Spike Halls's link to an article titled "Sin without Consequence: Corporate Citizenship Needs to Be Redefined" (available here, for now) leads instead to this post, a look at the wisdom of Ivan Illich. More...
Bloggers, Your`Audience Awaits
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Bloggers, Your`Audience Awaits
We were discussing today, what is an A-List blogger? Friends of Jason Kottke? Or a large enough readership? According to this article, I fall into the category of B-List blogger. But funny thing - if I linked to my own posts (the way most blogs do) instead of directly to articles, I could break the A-List hit rate (as defined in this article) pretty easily. More...
Montreal 2005
Times Company to Buy About.com for $410 Million
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Times Company to Buy About.com for $410 Million
I remember considering way back when whether it would be worth my while to become an About.com 'guide'. I launched this newsletter instead. More...
Take Back the Web
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Take Back the Web
Discussion of the theme from yesterday. Will Richardson recounts this story of a principal's response to the suggestion that students be taught how to reserach on the web. "Oh, no," the principal said. More...
EU Software Patent Law Faces Axe
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. EU Software Patent Law Faces Axe
We will probably see this surface again, attached to a regulation on dog licensing or something, but for now the European Parliament has given the idea of software patents the boot. More...
Would an Infinitely Rational Pirate Play Soccer?
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Would an Infinitely Rational Pirate Play Soccer?
Subtitled "A Geek's Guide to Gaming the College Admissions Process" this article is a lighthearted look at the use of sports by geeks to ease their way into college admissions. More...
Real Software Slams Microsoft's Patent Effort
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Real Software Slams Microsoft's Patent Effort
Presumably unaware of Aristotle, Microsoft is attempting to patent the 'ISNOT' construction in basic. More...
Guru of the Obvious
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Guru of the Obvious
Preparing to rule us all with an iron fist in a velvet glove, the king of the long tail, Leon Ipglips is coming to get us. More...
Multi User Weblogging
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Multi User Weblogging
A number of people have asked me about multi-user weblogging (that is, setting up a single installation to support multiple writers, as a teacher might do for a class). I guess they have been asking other people, and it's James Farmer who comes through with the goods, a really nice overview of options for people who want to support multiuser weblogging. More...
