By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Little Outliner
Dave Winer, Small Picture, March 27, 2013
"What Google Maps does for geography, outliners do for ideas." So says Paul Ford of Dave Winer's latest project, Little Outliner. On the surface the prduct is very simple, but it does some nifty things, like embedded Javascript, and local data storage. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. A Shared Story
Stephen Collis, Happy Steve, March 26, 2013
Stephen Collis could have expended many more words in this sparse post to make the point, but he is on the right track. The advice is as follows: "Every problem is a people problem, every space is a people-space. Beware my temptation to construct an illusory simpler world that operates by forms, templates, emails, rules, lesson plans, the bizarre fictions called 'outcomes', timetables, compliance, deadlines and data." But the idea that we understand the world by recognition rather than buy induction (rather than by counting or measuring) is I think a correct one. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. What I wish Tim Berners-Lee understood about DRM
Cory Doctorow, The Guardian, March 22, 2013
Cory Doctorow takes Tim Berners-Lee to the woodshed on DRM in web standards. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Machine Readable Rights and the News Industry day 2013
International Press Telecommunications Council, March 21, 2013
The W3C's Phil Archer expresses the dilemma of rights on the web in a nutshell: "Expressing rights statements on the Web is easy. Getting people to listen is hard — what's in it for them?" And this was in essence the question explored at the International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC) meetings on machine readable rights last week. More...
Leading academics have been accused of undermining a protest about workers’ rights in London in order to give a talk about a historian famous for his support of workers’ rights. More...
Fijemos nuestra atención en tres momentos especialmente relevantes en la historia de la humanidad. More...On 9 March 2015, a student hurled faeces at a statue of British colonialist Cecil Rhodes. This act led to the statue’s removal. It also inspired the most significant period of student protest in post-apartheid South Africa’s history. More...
By Steven Mintz. In the 1945 John Ford film, starring John Wayne and Donna Reed, the expendables were the Navy seamen who were left behind in the Philippines to allow Douglas MacArthur and other commanding officers to escape the impending Japanese invasion. More...
By Steven Mintz. A headline in a recent issue of the Boston Globe says it all: “Experimental colleges once were the future. Now, what is their future?” One after another, the innovators of the 1960s and 1970s are biting the dust, fading, or transforming themselves into pale shadows of their original ambitions. It’s not just Hampshire College, but Franconia, Goddard, New College, and perhaps even Evergreen State College. More...
By Elizabeth Redden. McGill University announced Wednesday that it had received gift of 200 million Canadian dollars (about $151 million) -- what it called “the single-largest gift in Canadian history” -- from the McCall MacBain Foundation to create a graduate-level scholarship program. More...
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