12 avril 2018
12 avril 2018
JamSpam: It just might save the Internet
JamSpam: It just might save the Internet
Relief against unwanted email (of which there is a lot) may be on the way as industry experts are beginning to coalesce around the idea of an industry-wide anti-spam consortium intended to create an open, royalty-free, interoperable, anti-spam protocol. More...
12 avril 2018
Internet Content in Peril in Non-Competitive World
Internet Content in Peril in Non-Competitive World
While broadband has long been a fact in Canada (I haven't had dial-up at home since 1998) consumers in the United States are still struggling to get bandwidth. More...
11 avril 2018
The Internet in a Cup
The Internet in a Cup
Coffee houses... the internet of the 1600s. "A proclamation by Charles II of England in 1675... Coffee-houses, it declared, had produced 'very evil and dangerous effects...for that in such Houses...divers False, Malitious and Scandalous Reports are devised and spread abroad, to the Defamation of His Majestie's Government, and to the Disturbance of the Peace and Quiet of the Realm.'" My kind of place. More...
11 avril 2018
Students Who Live on Campus Choosing Internet Courses
Students Who Live on Campus Choosing Internet Courses
As the title suggests, even on-campus students prefer online classes. Telling, though, is the account of why they prefer online classes: "I take convenience over lectures," she said. "I think I would be bored to death if I took it in lecture." Some professors, of course, are miffed. More...
9 avril 2018
The IFLA Internet Manifesto
The IFLA Internet Manifesto
The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) has started circulating emails to various mailing lists asking for feedback on its Manifesto on Open Access to Scholarly Literature and Research Documentation. More...
4 avril 2018
The Internet of Bad Things
The Internet of Bad Things
Jenna McLaughlin, Utne Reader, 2018/03/23
I've heard it called "the internet of broken things" in the past, though the new name is probably more appropriate because the things aren't broken, they were just badly designed to begin with. This article is a good compendoium of some recent breakdowns, referencing such threats as Mirai and Stuxnet and Heartbleed. More...
4 avril 2018
La gouvernance des nouveaux usages numériques
Internet et ses terminaux sont plus disruptifs que l'invention de l'imprimerie, de la cartographie ou de la montre car ils pénètrent toutes les couches de la société. Cette pénétration est pervasive. Elle provoque une transformation puissante du milieu interne. Les scanners montrent comment le câblage du cerveau mute. Le cerveau perd ses capacités d'attention, lit par bribes, doit gérer un état de stress continu au détour d'un flux d'usages qui s'imposent, de la réservation d'un billet de train au paiement de ses impôts, de l'auto monitoring, à l'auto formation, l’injonction d’écrans est omniprésente. Plus...
23 mars 2018
Cosmology on the Internet: Distance Education for the Gifted and Talented
Cosmology on the Internet: Distance Education for the Gifted and Talented
It's the rare paper that will teach me something new about cosmology, but this paper recently listed at LearnScope did. Specifically: "the curvature of our universe could be measured by examining how pi varies as larger and larger circles are drawn within it." Brilliant. More...
22 mars 2018
A World of Opportunity
A World of Opportunity
Power Point Slides from my presentation yesterday. A bit sketchy, as slides usually are; at some point I will follow up with an article. In a nutshell: creators of online learning should move away from the centralized 'publishing' model of the internet and embrace the distributed 'communications' model. More...
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