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Creating a Safety Net — Why Double-Dipping Is the Wrong Term and the Right Approach
Kent Anderson, The Scholarly Kitchen, 2017/11/20
Kent Anderson launches a spirited defense of "double dipping" - this is the practice of charging publication fees on articles published in journals where there are also subscription fees. His argument, based on the collapse of advertising revenue for digital publications, is that companies need to support diverse income streams. More...
Learning Experience Platform – WRONG
Craig Weiss, The Craig Weiss Group, 2017/11/20
The 'wrong' in this article refers to the term 'experience'. Craig Weiss argues that the term houl be 'engagement' instead. More...
Innovation Culture
Rideau Hall Foundation, 2017/11/20
This website, and the associated project around it, are an outcome of the previous Governor-General of Canada, David Johnston, working with Tom Jenkins (of the Jenkins report on science and technology in Canada). The site says "Innovation is the creative combination of anything that, once done, makes something better." I have mixed views. The Canadian Museum of Science and Technology, now part of co-sponsor Ingenium, was one of my favourite childhood destinations. It just reopened (yay!). More...
Pearson, WTF? Badges, patents, and the world’s ‘least popular’ education company
Doug Belshaw, Open Educational Thinkering, 2017/11/20
Doug Belshaw has two bits of news about Pearson in this article. First, he reports on Pearson's new application to patent digital credentials (you know, like badges). It's only something Belshaw and others have been working on for years now. More...
Where is Technology Taking the Economy
Irving Wladawsky-Berger, 2017/11/20
Irving Wladawsky-Berger offers projections about the new technological environment. "Machines have started to exhibit associative intelligence," he writes, "Associative intelligence is no longer just housed in the brains of human workers, but emerges from the constant interactions among machines, software and processes." It made me think of e-Trucks interacting with each other to form convoys, for example. More...
Five Technologies You Need to Know
Good article from the Industry Standard looking ahead at trends which will shape the future. The five? Ultraviolet lithography (for making chips), organic light emiting displays, light based computers, presence technology (which detects when you're online), and business intelligence. More...
Grassroots KM Through Blogging
I've been doing this for years, but the idea of knowledge management through blogging (also known as web logging) is beginning to catch on in the mainstream. This article offers an interesting - and valid - comparison between blogs and storytelling. More...
The So-Called Rule of Five
Really good advice from Jeffrey Zeldman's new book. Basically, the principle is that a site should benavigable in five main areas or fewer. In other words,avoid the temptation to put everything on the front page. More...