By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. John Thackara[Edit][Delete]: Power Laws Of Innovation, Doors of Perception [Edit][Delete] July 19, 2006By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Scott Crumpler[Edit][Delete]: IBM's DeveloperWorks Site is Publishing a Series on Open Source Website Development, Kairosnews [Edit][Delete]KairosNews [Edit][Delete] July 19, 2006By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Terry Anderson[Edit][Delete]: An Educator Discovers his SecondLife, Virtual Canuck [Edit][Delete] July 19, 2006By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Elliotte Rusty Harold[Edit][Delete]: Must Ignore vs. Microformats, The Cafes [Edit][Delete] July 19, 2006By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Joan Vinall-Cox[Edit][Delete]: Inquiry-Based Learning: What Does That Mean?, Joan Vinall-Cox : Weblog [Edit][Delete] July 19, 2006By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Amy Gahran[Edit][Delete]: Tracking News Ripples in the Public Conversation, Poynter Online [Edit][Delete] July 18, 2006
We're beginning to see more structure enter the blogosphere as the idea of tracking blog 'conversations' takes hold. I first worked with this last year in Edu_RSS - click the 'conversation' link on this page (hint: the posts with more asterisks have more conversation). This article looks at a similar initiative from Nielsen's BlogPulse. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Bob Jolliffe[Edit][Delete]: Aligning the Ideals of Free Software and Free Knowledge With the South African Freedom Charter, First Monday [Edit][Delete] July 18, 2006
The author observes that while "the free software movement (and related efforts in the fields of science and culture) draws upon a tradition of freedom rooted in an American libertarian tradition," it is important to align "efforts to promote free software and free culture with the rich existing tradition embodied in the South African Freedom Charter". More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Craig W. Smith[Edit][Delete]: Synchronous Discussion in Online Courses, Learning Circuits [Edit][Delete] July 18, 2006
The article is subtitled "A Pedagogical Strategy for Taming the Chat Beast" and that gives a pretty good sense of his attitude toward chat. No chaos and disorder for him! "The sense of community and connectedness was overshadowed by frustration. I wanted to have the opportunity to interact with the students in a more spontaneous manner while still retaining some semblance of order that would replicate a seminar-type environment." Most of the suggestions have to do with keeping quiet when other people are talking and staying on topic. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Alan Levine[Edit][Delete]: Still Head Scracthing at Technorati, Cogdogblog [Edit][Delete]CogDogBlog [Edit][Delete] July 18, 2006
The A-List blogosphere has been remarkably quiet about this, and people keep quoting Technorati State of the Blogosphere figures uncritically, but Alan Levine is quite right to question the aggregator's credibility. I also do my own ego-surfing and have wondered about the mysterious changes in ranking, inconsistent numbers of links, and just plain weirdness (like jumping from "19 posts in the last 7 hours" to "19 posts in the last 5 days" as happened as I typed up this item, a span of about 5 minutes). More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Dave Cormier[Edit][Delete]: educationbridges.net - An Elgg for Teacher collaboration, July 18, 2006
Another new online learning community. Dave Cormier writes, "Alex and Arvind have set up an elgg at educationbridges.net. Go sign up. Join the party." That's all very fine, but when I see things like that, I always ask, "What's wrong with what I am doing here?" The point is, these communities always want me to go there - but then my comments are spread all over the net under different identities. I want to stay here - if an ELGG wants my comments, why can't it pull them from a (filtered?) RSS feed, and if it wants me to read the comments of it's members, why can't it send (via an API?) a comment. More...
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