“You+” Can we get smarter? via http://bit.ly/16Xc7T For cyborg babies’ sake I hope not

I have not the faith in the "Nöosphere, a collective consciousness created by the deepening interaction of human minds" that Jamais Cascio has. I still prefer to rely on Donna Haraway, "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century," in Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (New York; Routledge, 1991), pp.149-181.

Glad to be led back to DBpedia;

DBpedia is a community effort to extract structured information from Wikipedia and to make this information available on the Web. DBpedia allows you to ask sophisticated queries against Wikipedia, and to link other data sets on the Web to Wikipedia data. via wiki.dbpedia.org Strikes me this is a route worth following for anyone interested in contemporary epistemological questions. Posted via web from George's posterous

Love the Faviki approach to restricted vocabulary & wish posterous and Diigo did the same

Faviki is a tool that brings together social bookmarking and Wikipedia. It lets you bookmark web pages using Wikipedia's terms. In Faviki, everybody uses the same names for tags from the world's largest collection of knowledge! via faviki.com I do think this is a neat idea, addressing one of the big problems of folksonomies. In … Continue reading Love the Faviki approach to restricted vocabulary & wish posterous and Diigo did the same

Can a PeopleWeb be built on restricted vocabularies? @andypowe11

Andy Powell (@andypowe11) shared the text of Ramakrishnan & Tomkins (2007) "Toward a PeopleWeb". According to the authors, "Attentional metadata is increasingly sought after and is beginning to accumulate in significant volume, suggesting a paradigm shift - and simultaneously raising serious questions about user privacy." (63) A shift from what to what, I wonder? They … Continue reading Can a PeopleWeb be built on restricted vocabularies? @andypowe11

@eframework technical model: a key enabler of open education dialogue? #jiscssbr

e-framework.org The eFramework people have published their technical model here: http://www.e-framework.org/Resources/TechnicalModel/tabid/1008/Default.aspx The model depends on continuing feedback from the community. Their aim is to develop "... a common approach to the description of service-oriented design and analysis," and provide "... a neutral means to articulate the design of software services" in order "...to assist international … Continue reading @eframework technical model: a key enabler of open education dialogue? #jiscssbr

Higher education in regional and city development – Prof Mike Osborne #facecon09

Universities and other higher education institutions (HEIs) can play a key role in human capital development and innovation systems. In the time of globalisation, growth and development continue to cluster around specific regions that have a high concentration of skilled and creative workforce and infrastructure for innovation. HEIs can help their cities and regions become … Continue reading Higher education in regional and city development – Prof Mike Osborne #facecon09

@AJCann Death of Seesmic via @josiefraser What’s it say about feedback?

Is video inherently flawed, or is this consolidation in operation?via scienceoftheinvisible.blogspot.com Thanks Josie for pointing this out to me. For teachers concerned with feedback, this is a key question: two really, because the consolidation question is separate from the question of the affordances of the medium. I am interested in the affordance question but do … Continue reading @AJCann Death of Seesmic via @josiefraser What’s it say about feedback?

Twitter, visitors and residents – were it ever so humble, is it home?

there is a visitors vs. residents issue here (to borrow David White's categorisation of online users). Twitter is a tool for residents. It's about people being immersed. It's about people "living a percentage of their life online". When visitors get hold of Twitter they see it as a tool to get a job done when … Continue reading Twitter, visitors and residents – were it ever so humble, is it home?