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Hear Ray Bradbury’s Classic Sci-Fi Story Fahrenheit 451 as a Radio Drama
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Hear Ray Bradbury’s Classic Sci-Fi Story Fahrenheit 451 as a Radio Drama
Dan Colman, Open Culture, 2015/11/19
OK, I'm just linking to this because I want to have it available for a long flight or something. More...
Synereo
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Synereo
Synereo, 2015/11/19
Thesis very similar to what we are building in LPSS (it's also quite different in many ways - we're not building out own type of money, for example). More...
What Happens If Hyperlinks Get Copyright Protection In Europe?
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. What Happens If Hyperlinks Get Copyright Protection In Europe?
Lisa Brownlee, Forbes, 2015/11/18
I would like to think that the European Commission wouldn't be so short-sighted as to attempt to impose copyright restrictions on linking, but there have been precedents under the heading of 'ancillary copyright' and restrictions imposed on Google News based on this very principle. More...
Reconciling two worlds
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Reconciling two worlds
Clark Quinn, Learnlets, 2015/11/18
As you may recall, Jane Hart posted an article positing a growing divide in the world of training and development. Since then, Will Thalheimer posted a blistering response, and Clark Quinn tried to find a middle ground. More...
The Badge and the Blockchain
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The Badge and the Blockchain
Bryan Mathers, Visual Thinkery, 2015/11/18
Another illustration from Bryan Mathers, authored a number of weeks ago. The subject of badges came up yet again (this time at OIF meetings in Tunisia) and I thought back to Doug Belshaw's proposal to use the blockchain to validate badges. More...