Google’s 3 Secrets To Designing Perfect Conversations
Mark Wilson, 2017/05/29
Google's approach to interaction is based on the work of British philosopher Paul Grice, who "theorized that people employ all sorts of norms (which are known as Grice’s Maxims) to make sure that conversations flow normally." What's interesting is that a lot of the time the response doesn't depend on having understood the other speaker. More...
Micropub is a W3C Recommendation
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), 2017/05/29
You can find the specification here. "The Micropub protocol is used to create, update and delete posts on one's own domain using third-party clients. More...
The Digital Revolution Will Not Be Powerpointed (nor MOOCed)
Alan Levine, CogDogBlog, 2017/05/29
There's a lesson in the metaphor of a Stanford-based MOOC on activism that has students create PowerPoints and form teams to write mission statements. "I am deeply engrossed in reading Zeynep Tufekci’s Twitter and Tear Gas with her direct experience participating in the Mexican Zapatista uprisings in, Arab Spring, the Occupy Movement, and the protests in her home country of Turkey in Gezi Park," writes Alan Levine. More...
The government has agreed US$50 million as seed money for the establishment of the National Research Fund. The cabinet has already given approval for the establishment of the fund and a draft bill will be presented to parliament shortly to give it the necessary legal backing, reports GhanaWeb. More...The London School of Economics and Political Science, or LSE, has welcomed the announcement by Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi that a ‘Jinnah Chair’ will be established under the auspices of the LSE South Asia Centre and it will be funded by the government of Pakistan, writes Murtaza Ali Shah for Geo.tv. More...A leading educationalist has said that if President Jacob Zuma moved ahead with an alleged plan to announce free education across the board through a controversial funding scheme, it would spell disaster for the country, writes Ranjeni Munusamy, Qaanitah Hunter, Sabelo Skiti and Ernest Mabuza for TimesLIVE. More...Universities accused of wrongdoing face the prospect of being investigated by government-appointed inspectors with the power to enter their premises and access sensitive internal records. The move has sparked concern among university presidents over the scope of these powers and whether it will undermine their autonomy, writes Carl O’Brien for The Irish Times. More.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
