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Thursday, February 26, 2004

On becoming the local media Jonathan Peterson: Become the Local Media. Yeah baby, yeah! I see big opportunities there. The cost of blogging is practically zero and there's got to be people who like to follow what happens locally and wouldn't mind writing about it. Okay, so how can this get started in a loosely joined fashion? One way would be to find a few other local bloggers (GeoURLs can come in handy here) and set up a community aggregator, e.g. using the RSS-based Rollup or the TrackBack-based Topic Exchange. (The latter route is how Austin Bloggers got their start, and look at the great local log they've got now.) To beef things up at the outset when you have little manpower, you could feed on local news, as gathered e.g. by topix.net (which is US only for now) and reblog whatever feels right. [Update, March 1st: Hmmm. Careful with that one, as their terms of service might well forbid that.] (I've written about Localogging previously.) What do you think? []  links to this post    9:34:06 PM   Yahoo-Google comparator Compare the top 100 results for any query. Neat. I wish they'd show page titles in addition to URIs. (via Éric) What do you think? []  links to this post    3:52:12 PM   Creative Technology programs and transparency in academia Geoffrey Rockwell made up a very cool "Creative Technology Curriculum". I'd have loved to get a degree in that if it had been available when I got into college! Geoffrey also points to a fascinating (if you're interested in the dynamics of academia) document in which the Faculty of Information Studies of the University of Toronto attempts to redefine itself. As Geoffrey writes, In the paper the dean, Briank Cantwell Smith raises questions about what is the subject of information studies (we all study information.) He argues for an issues oriented, interdisciplinary centre that looks at documentary practices and performances. What is exciting about the process is that it is open (I can look at it) and openness is also one of the issues (as in Open Source as an issue.) Perhaps what we need is a clear philosophy of open source research as a practice. What do you think? []  links to this post    9:58:03 AM

Wednesday, February 25, 2004

Notes from the Emergent Learning Forum presentation I'm logged into this event right now. Andy Halliday from Spoke just gave a pretty farsighted overview of the social software landscape. It's too bad he had to race through the "future perspectives" slides. Now Anita Lo from Intel is now remotely presenting their recently deployed knowledge management strategy, of which the cornerstones are culture, connection, and collaboration. Self-representation (they call this the "People Yellow Pages") is pretty central too. Overall it looks pretty clueful, if a little intricate. They went from a push to a pull strategy with employees. "Infection model through word of mouth, newsletters..." I like that... If you're quick enough you may be able to catch the presentation (enter here). What do you think? []  links to this post    2:27:19 PM

Tuesday, February 24, 2004

"Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child." - Charles Handy What do you think? []  links to this post    9:38:48 PM   Seeing more of each other here I like Ross White's idea of asking visitors to his blog to send in a picture and posting them so much that I can't help but steal it. So please send me a picture (along with a URL if you want a link) at paquetse2001 - at - yahoo - dot - com, and I'll post it! What do you think? []  links to this post    4:00:47 PM   Course weblogs on PEI The University of Prince Edward Island uses both professor and student-edited weblogs in courses such as Networking, Knowledge & the Digital Age and MIS for the Information Age. On the main blog for the former course I found this post by prof. Mark Hemphill, which lists a number of socio-technical shifts that we are experiencing as the Internet makes its way into many aspects of our life: as content goes from contrived to wild, from perfection to experimentation, the user experience goes from watching to trying out, from lecture to discussion, etc. Funny how contrasts expressed in few words like this can be very meaningful. This post also appears on channel edblogging What do you think? []  links to this post    3:42:41 PM

Sunday, February 22, 2004

Jimmy Carter blogs Former US president Jimmy Carter now writes a blog. (via Tim Bishop) What do you think? []  links to this post    5:27:25 PM   Media course blogs Douglas Rushkoff is teaching a course titled Theoretical Perspectives on Interactivity this semester at New York University. The course blog is full of interesting discussions on the roots, values, and meaning of internet-era media. And it's a little less over my head than the UofT course blog on technopsychology I linked to earlier... While I'm at it I might as well mention the Research Frontiers in Knowledge Media Design course blog... the first assignment is to "define and describe how you would design and conduct a program of research inquiry into Livejournal." This post also appears on channel edblogging What do you think? []  links to this post    9:55:36 AM

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