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January 07, 2009
My Precious
January 07, 2009
Regular readers will know that I'm a fan of the concept of aggregation, but I'm still struggling make it work in a practical way. Jo responded to Monday's post with a comment wondering if FriendFeed was the answer to promoting conversation around Google Reader shared items:On the face of it, FriendFeed is tailor-made for this purpose, but ...
January 06, 2009
Adding Value
January 06, 2009
In the backtoworkmondayjanuarymorningtwitterfest, there was some discussion of new year resolutions. When I was younger, I was sceptical of the value of new year resolutions, but for reasons I don't understand, that changed a few years ago and for the past decade I've made (and kept) a resolution each year.One of the reasons I've been able to do ...
January 04, 2009
The P word
January 04, 2009
In Participatory Media Literacy: Why it matters, Michael Wesch writes:The surprising-to-most-people-fact is that students would prefer less technology in the classroom (especially *participatory* technologies that force them to do something other than sit back and memorize material for a regurgitation exercise). We use social media in the classroom not because our students use it, but because ...
January 01, 2009
Mad, bad and dangerous to know
January 01, 2009
I've frightened myself by working out how many blog posts I wrote in 2008. Worryingly, the total was well over 850: over 300 at MicrobiologyBytes, 475 here at SOTI, and 80 over at the Frogroom.What did I write about?Here, via PostRank, which counts inbound links, tweets, delicious links, comments, etc, were the top SOTI posts of 2008: ...
December 31, 2008
Crystal Balls
December 31, 2008
At this time of year wise pundits traditionally look back at the year just ending. Not being known for my wisdom, I'll look ahead at 2009. My prediction is that there will be good things and bad things. Some of the bad things will be:Continued contraction of free services, possibly mitigated by more uptake of the ...
December 17, 2008
Son of Small Worlds
December 17, 2008
Last week I posted a brief note saying that the Small Worlds experiment had failed, which generated a surprising number of comments. In addition to a debate about the difference between an experiment and a hypothesis, numerous people have asked me to discuss in more detail what happened with Small Worlds and what I plan to do ...
December 16, 2008
Forgive me Father for I have Symbian
December 16, 2008
There's an age-related digital divide, at least when it comes to mobile phones. Mobile usage declines sharply with age, and apparently, I'm old, at least in mobile phone years :-) I've always detested the telephone in all its guises (although not as much as I hated the FAX machine) but as part of our forthcoming QR code ...
December 15, 2008
The PLE chickens come home to roost
December 15, 2008
In the last 18 months it's been very hard to convince myself that I had anything to say which could be better expressed in a formal academic paper than in a couple of blog posts or even as an argument developed in a series of tweets. Finally, I do, and here's the recipe so you can repeat ...
December 11, 2008
What's the difference between The Chicago Tribune and The University of Leicester?
December 11, 2008
You may have heard that the media group which owns The Chicago Tribune and The Los Angeles Times has filed for bankruptcy. As you might expect, Clay Shirky's comments on this news are worth reading:By the turn of the century, anyone who didn't understand that the business model for newspapers was a wasting asset was caught up ...
December 03, 2008
Who are you lookin' at?
December 03, 2008
At coffee this morning, I expressed my periodic recurring desire to create an anonymous blog where I could express my true feelings about certain topics I no longer feel I can blog about here. Buried deep in layers of Tor and bounced through more proxies than you can shake a stick at, my alternative blog, provisionally entitled ...
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