Archive for March, 2006
Friday, March 31st, 2006
I'm kicking back on the couch with Bonnie and the cat, trying to get some of the ideas that have been flooding through my head over the last couple of days into print. I don't know if its the springtime, or a return to a slightly more normal life that ...
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Wednesday, March 29th, 2006
Fingers full of paint flipping over a keyboard propped on my lap, on an evening following a day that actually smelled like spring. Spring that brings all the little jobs that need to get done, Spring that brings the leaves out of the trees we planted last year (hopefully). It's ...
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Thursday, March 23rd, 2006
The debate about whether digital universe is better than wikipedia is better than britannica is better than my mom?
Irrelevant. There are no gatekeepers protecting knowledge. Or at least, the gatekeepers are very difficult to find and/or they can't do their jobs very well anymore. What we have now are salespeople, ...
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Monday, March 20th, 2006
We've been working on a couple of projects over the last couple of weeks. It's been a wild ride, trying to balance the live work and encourage the asynchronous work... Live wiki building is, well, pretty busy work. There has been some confusion regarding the separation between the two projects... ...
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Saturday, March 11th, 2006
Good early morning to all of you. 5:39am here on the red dirt isle and I'm finishing my prep for a 5 hour class I'll be teaching at ten... Crisp here, even in my house, and I'm soaking in that intense quiet of the early morning. An intense quiet disturbed ...
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Friday, March 3rd, 2006
EdTech Barnraising - Building a New Media Curriculum
There's the title. Others might be considered, or better found, but i like this one. I like the image of a community coming together to build something we all agree needs to be built. All contributing the skills that they have, their more ...
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Wednesday, March 1st, 2006
Well...
well well...
The worldbridges server died. Long live the worldbridges server. We lost everything. No backups. All 125 websites, all the blog posts, content, forum posts, audio... everything. We just had the stuff we had scattered on our computers. I spent that whole of Monday morning mourning all the work we've ...
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Wednesday, March 1st, 2006
February 19th, 2006 It’s been a tough year for blogging. I’ll spare you fine people the details, suffice it to say, that i’ve got a few things that i’m trying to get to. I’ll try and do a wrap up of a few projects this week, and get some help ...
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Wednesday, March 1st, 2006
wow. what a week. I’ve been talking to all kinds of cool people over the last week, and have been spending pretty much every waking hour working on either the wikitext project or on the project at my university. The time has come, I think, for a model of where ...
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Wednesday, March 1st, 2006
wow… January is supposed to be involve painful attempts at exercise and sneaking christmas chocolats… not this wicked influx of work. It’s good fun though, and, after taking a couple of hours to chill out and play a little crochinole, i thought i’d post a few notes from the show ...
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