CCK09: On the difficulty of the Connectivist revolution.
This post is for assignment #1 for Stephen Downes and George Siemens Connectivism and Connective Knowledge course, 2009. Connectivism represents a new way of knowing. But if it is correct, it is the way we have been knowing all along, and may not require a leap across an enormous gap to adapt to the new [...]
What is the effect of government competition on the health care market?
I was recently asked to describe how the proposed government competition in the health care market (represented by the “public option” would affect health care costs. I wrote the following to illustrate that the issue is not a simple question of free market vs. government control. Theoretically competition would encourage private insurers to reduce their [...]
The new way to listen to music is “on demand.”
I think there has been a change in how people experience music in the last couple years, brought on by the buildup of services that offer streaming songs. This follows up in the vein of the previous trend in music discovery, illegal downloading, which the music industry labeled “piracy.” The new streaming paradigm avoids the [...]
Knee-Jerking neutrality
I’m on a ton of political email lists from different sides. I saw Dick Armey’s big push to have his anti-big-government rally on 9/12 from both angles, I get ACLU’s updates, environmental letters, NYT news summaries, the whole gamut. I agree and disagree with each source some of the time, but am usually interested to [...]
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