Badges for Libraries
On Monday, I hosted a short conversation on possibilities for using open badges in libraries as part of a series of community conversations with people interested in Mozilla’s Open Badges Infrastructure. The raw notes we took during the session are located here. For background on the topic, we read “Badging the Library” by Ahniwa Ferrari. [...]
House of Cards and Bravery
Imagine the kind of world that would exist if Netflix had all TV or movie content. From a consumer standpoint, the value of Netflix subscriptions would be great. The cord-cutting the cable industry has been dreading would finally occur. The value of TV advertising would be absolutely obliterated. That’s scary to the people who get [...]
What is relevant to the search user: your site or a ROGUE site?
The Copyright Alliance (an organization committed to “upholding the contributions of copyright to the fiscal health of this nation and for the good of creators, owners and consumers around the world”) has a new post up for Valentines Day lamenting that some SOPA opponents, who at first seemed to agree on the need to battle [...]
President Obama Softens Super PAC Opposition
Sam Stein on the Huffington Post: WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s campaign is reconfiguring its approach to powerful super PACs, worried the president’s re-election prospects could be overwhelmed by conservative groups raising and spending unlimited amounts of money. The president’s advisers have signaled to donors that he will soften, for the time being, his long-standing [...]
Hang your pitchforks on a nearby peg?
Big media tech journalist David Pogue posted about the enormous SOPA/PIPA protests that potentially killed the bills for now, but probably not forever — these bills themselves are the successors to the failed COICA legislation from 2010, and it may not be long before language like this shows up again… so keep those pitchforks handy [...]
For #SOPA Blackout day: a challenge to make things better
Today, many important websites are “going dark” to protest the anti-piracy bills working their way through the US Congress. I’m joining in this protest, because I think the bills would “break” the Internet as we know it, as the only medium known to humanity that could enable virtually anyone to access speech published by virtually [...]
Today is American Censorship Day
Proposed legislation in the US Congress (Called the PROTECT IP Act or short title Stop Online Piracy Act) would allow corporations to take down whole websites they deem are “dedicated to infringement” prior to any court order. Advertisers would be forced to cancel contracts in advance of any court hearing. I believe in free speech, [...]
The Lady, or the Tiger? Game Theory
Frank Stockton’s short story The Lady or the Tiger apparently is a classic for high school freshmen. Or so my mom told me. It came up because my little sister just read it for freshman literature. I had never heard of it. (see also Wikipedia link) It’s short. Go ahead and read it. You can [...]
#CSCLintro Case Study: Knowledge Building in Nunavut
Resources for this week in #CSCLintro include McAuley, A. and Walton, F. (2011). Decolonizing cyberspace: Online support for the Nunavut MEd. IRRODL, 12, 4. Sandy McAuley’s special presentation summarizing the paper above. We will talk about this case with McAuley in about half an hour apparently here: http://piratepad.net/cscl7 Some thoughts: I wonder about the different [...]
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