2004: The Turning Point
In this article I base my projections not on stock prices, sales trends or focus group analysis. I base it on what I think - on what I feel, in the classic sense of the Idoru - is driving the hearts of those who will make the final decisions on the future of the internet, those who use it. More...
The Algebra of RSS Feeds
Useful first steps toward defining a notation for the manipulation of the contents of RSS feeds, including accounts of feed splitting, splicing, subtracting and more. In the comments I have added to the termninology and offered formal definitions for each term in a type of basic predicate calculus for feeds. More...
Actionable Sense, Networks and Purpose
Interesting item, based on the concept that "meaning and full extension of skills (and self, too) occur within the social context of a project that has a contextual and social purpose - an objective to focus the deployment of skills. Then we have actionable sense." This idea is used to defined the development of 'ad hoc networks' that collect those skills within an organization that can meet the stated objective. More...
How Boring is the E-Learning Market
Reflections from an e-learning conference held recently in Britain. Cynical reflections. "The industry stages very predictable events where: publishers argue that there should be more emphasis on e-learning content; software companies argue that there should be more emphasis on tools; and learning theorists want to see more collaboration between learners and more attention on 'pedagogy' in general." Yup. More...
Toward an open empowered learning model of pedagogy in higher education
Shirley Reushle, Amy Antonio, Mike Keppell, ResearchGate, 2017/05/22
Relevant and realistic: "The separation of assessment from learning could have significant ramifications for the outcomes of learning because a schism could appear in the alignment of the curriculum in a disaggregated model. Quality assurance of learning and certification of its outputs become problematic so new ways of aligning and assessing learning outcomes and arranging academic support for students will be needed.". More...
From Pikachu to Patients: The Rise and Rise of Augmented Reality
Jeremy Miles, GP Strategies, 2017/05/22
It's an unusual "rise and rise" that includes a significant retrenchment, but that's what's documented here. More...
These are the arguments against net neutrality — and why they’re wrong
Devin Coldewey, TechCrunch, 2017/05/22
I am unambiguously in favour of net neutrality, but I think that the strongest argument against it isn't any of the arguments listed here but the unassailable fact that the net is not neutral now and that therefore 'net neutrality' pits one form of unequal distribution of wealth against another. More...
New AWS Training and Certification Portal
Amazon Web Services, 2017/05/22
Technical Certificate programs have been around for a while now - long-time professionals will recall things like the Certified Novell Engineer (CNE) exams, for example. More...
The Internet Is Broken’: @ev Is Trying to Salvage It
David Streitfeld, New York Times, 2017/05/22
@ev is Evan Williams, known for co-creating such things as Blogger, Twitter and Medium. One sold out to Google. The other simply sold out. The third is trying to sell memberships. More...
Why Harvard Business School is under fire
The Economist, 2017/05/19
The Economist not surprisingly rejects the idea that "HBS is responsible for the ills of Western civilisation" but is willing to countenance the idea that it has behaved badly. More...
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