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Monthly Archives: March 2004
Weblogs as “replacement” educational tech
[This is part of a draft of the chapter I'm writing for the International Handbook of Virtual Learning Environments, forthcoming from Springer.]
Technologies provide a “valence” of potential uses, to borrow the terminology of Carolyn Marvin (1990), writing in the context of the early adoption of the telephone. What we think of as the telephone today [...]
Language police
OK. I get as fed up as anyone with people who want to regulate what words should and shouldn’t be used. Nonetheless, can we just agree to stop calling the War On Terror(tm) and related military actions “crusades.” Listening to Powell’s prepared remarks today before the 9/11 commission, and he actually refers to a “crusade” [...]
Social Mind-Extensions
Many have suggested that what makes humans different from other animals is our use of tools. Our most important tool is language. It is through language that we are able to coordinate our work and form civilizations. We build our conceptions of the world through conversation, but we also build our physical and social world [...]
Collaborative web publishing as a technology and a practice
[This is part of a draft of the chapter I'm writing for the International Handbook of Virtual Learning Environments, forthcoming from Springer.]
It seems clear that weblogs existed well before they were named. These days, there are nearly as many definitions of weblogs as there are weblogs. Most of these relate to the formal presentational structure [...]
Just-making media
d y n e : b o l i c is an upful single-CD live linux distro designed for media by the people:
dyne:bolic is RASTA software released free under the GNU General Public License.
Share this software for the good of yourself and your people, respect others and let them express, be free and seek Peace. [...]
Ah, spring
This pillar of ice alerted us to the fact that the roof might be leaking. My solution: cut holes in the other side for symmetry and consider it a seasonal architectural feature. Some of the less adventurous in the family seem to think this would be a bad idea. (As usual, click for the big [...]
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