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  • Audrey Watters: The Future of Ed-Tech is a Reclamation Project #DLFAB

    We can reclaim the Web and more broadly ed-tech for teaching and learning. But we must reclaim control of the data, content, and knowledge we create. We are not resources to be mined. Learners do not enter our schools and in our libraries to become products for the textbook industry and the testing industry and…

  • Jon Udell on filter failure

    http://blog.jonudell.net/2014/01/26/its-time-to-engineer-some-filter-failure/ Jon’s article points out his experience of the erosion of serendipity or at least opposing view points that social media enforces (somewhat) accidentally. I couldn’t agree more. One of the big promises of the Internet was that it was unimaginably vast and continuing to grow. The other big promise was that it was open in the way…

  • Owning Your Words: Personal Clouds Build Professional Reputations | Cloudline | Wired.com

    My first blogging platform was Dave Winer’s Radio UserLand. One of Dave’s mantras was: “Own your words.” As the blogosophere became a conversational medium, I saw what that could mean. Radio UserLand did not, at first, support comments. That turned out to be a constraint well worth embracing. When conversation emerged, as it inevitably will…

  • Intel Responds to Calxeda/HP ARM Server News (Wired.com)

    Wired.com isn’t the best at following the Cloud Data Industry. In fact at least they partially want to keep their advertisers happy so they will publish a Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt raising response direct from an Intel PR Engineer. Happily the Intel folks aren’t even fully aware of what people are doing with their SeaMicro…

  • Distracting chatter is useful. But thanks to RSS (remember that?) it’s optional. (via Jon Udell)

    I too am a big believer in RSS. And while I am dipping toes into Facebook and Twitter the bulk of my consumption goes into the big Blogroll I’ve amassed and refined going back to Radio Userland days in 2002. When I left the pageview business I walked away from an engine that had, for…

  • Goal oriented visualizations? (via Erik Duval’s Weblog)

    Visualizations and their efficacy always takes me back to Edward Tufte‘s big hard cover books on Infographics (or Chart Junk when it’s done badly). In terms of this specific category, visualization leading to a goal I think it’s still very much a ‘general case’. But examples are always better than theoretical descriptions of an ideal.…

  • Bye, Flip. We’ll Miss You | Epicenter | Wired.com

    I’m not just a fan, I’ve owned a few video cameras as new technology has displaced the old. First there was 8mm, then miniDV, and then the solid state revolution as exemplified by Pure Digital’s once disposable video camera. It was a project created for a drug store chain, but hackers showed the company their…

  • Showcase Your Skills & Analyze Which Skills Are Trending With LinkedIn’s New Tool

    Apart from making friends/connections and advertising your skills and interests, LinkedIn collects data on all the traffic through their pages. What better way to see what jobs skills are popular and being consumed by potential employers within the LinkedIn Universe. Better than job numbers that’s for sure.

  • OpenID: The Web’s Most Successful Failure|Wired.com

    First 37Signals announced it would drop support for OpenID. Then Microsoft’s Dare Obasanjo called OpenID a failure (along with XML and AtomPub). Former Facebooker Yishan Wong’s scathing (and sometimes wrong) rant calling OpenID a failure is one of the more popular answers on Quora. But if OpenID is a failure, it’s one of the web’s…

  • Dave Winer’s EC2 for poets | Wired.com

    Now I understand that Wikileaks was also a user of the Amazon EC2 service, so I’m a little hesitant to promote them after Amazon dropped Wikileaks from their service. However, I am just so overwhelmingly curious about the application for cloud computing when it comes to personal websites and blogging. That is why I am…