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By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. “Blogs are the Vinyl Records of the Internet”.
I don't think this metaphor works. I accept that "personal blogging is retreating in favour of corporate social media sites such as Facebook, twitter, and tumblr." But it isn't clear to me that "Just as vinyl records are still listened to, and considered better than the digital format, they exist without having a real impact on the music industry." I think that the internet would be very different without blogs. There has to be more to life than Upworthy and Huffington Post. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. 2014 Future of Open Source Survey Results.
Slideshare slide deck. From the summary: "The eighth annual Future of Open Source Survey results, presented by Black Duck and North Bridge, point toward the increased strategic role that open source plays in today’s enterprises, its crucial function within new technology development, and the growth of both first-time developers within the OSS community and the impact open source has in daily life." The overall message: "Open source continues to eat the software world." More...

By Stephen Downes - Halfanhour. Here's the information I sent Steve Kolowich for his Chronicle article on the (possible?) decline of MOOC mentions in the media:
My data measures news articles from selected (and reasonably representative) sources (including Google News) and counts instances of the term ‘MOOC’ in title or descriptions. It is essentially the number of items published each day in the MOOC.ca newsletter http://www.mooc.ca/news.htm (filtered to remove duplicate listings). More...

By Stephen Downes - Halfanhour. Still messing around with statistics. Here's the graph of the production of posts on OLDaily over the years since the first posts in 1995.
Until 1999 the only posts produced are my articles. Subsequently, as I began the newsletter, the posts include the now-familiar links to resources in OLDaily. The red line represents the total, the blue line represents the daily tally. Notice the flat line where I took a hiatus in 2006. You can also see a bump in 2001. This was from a short period where I experimented with post-creation using the harvester. More...

By Allison M. Vaillancourt. During a recent, smallish national gathering, we were asked to go around the room and answer an interesting question: If we had to write a book that described our last year, what would we title it? My answer popped to mind without much effort at all, and when it got to be my turn, I was happy to share it: Will You Still Love Me When I Crash and Burn? See more...