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Tweets
- @lrainie As it is, each time I start a class session with "Pack it up, pack it in, let me begin..." fewer and fewer recognize it. 2 days ago
- @lrainie It's hard for me to do anything menacingly, and I'd try it for a classroom entrance, but I suspect the reference would be lost... 2 days ago
- @lrainie That is my new goal! Channel Omar more often :). 2 days ago
- @lrainie Reducible in part to "who said it wasn't already all a game"? :) 2 days ago
- Word or two length predictions for social media game-changers over next decade? Me: Goggles, Badges, Social Sensors #gamechangers 2 days ago
- One more on the "higher ed is newspapers" meme. David Brooks: http://t.co/bUsz8sXA 2 days ago
- My students know I am not a fan of Flash. Rare exception: http://t.co/1ElX1Q8E 3 days ago
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Monthly Archives: August 2006
[wikimania] Benkler / Calacanis followup
The Digg crowd and elsewhere out there seem to be abuzz about the short Q & A between Benkler and Calacanis. I see this blog post and wonder if I am in the same room. Calacanis defends his offer to pay members of the Digg collaborative filtering system with the following metaphor: There are both [...]
[wikimania] Wealth of Networks
CSPP Benkler has gotten a lot of attention lately for his Wealth of Networks, and Lessig yesterday heaped superlatives upon him. Today he talked a bit about the border areas between what he calls “common space peer production (CSPP)”. The talk focused on the drivers of such production, as well as how mixed models might [...]
[wikimania] Pre-conference blogging
I’ve ensconsed myself in the Ames Court Room in preparation for Yochai Benkler’s talk at the Wikimania conference. I’m sitting in the back, just in front of the fireplace pictured here. The inscription reads “This is the polar opposite of the university you attended.” This room feels like it could be a set for the [...]
All I need are some tasty waves…
And now for a completely non-conference related item (I am at Wikimania). As I’ve always said, I’m not much for conference blogging. I’ve started a half-dozen posts, but abandon them. Needs more stewing. Anyway, for newly or soon-to-be minted Ph.D.-type-quasi-humans, Jonathan Sterne offers an anotated list of job-hunting and job-taking links.
Wikiality and Wikimania
In case you missed it, Stephen Colbert is walking in my footsteps and replicating the Isuzu Experiement on Wikipedia. Obviously, he didn’t read my follow-up, suggesting that this was a bad thing to do. He also says: “I love Wikipedia. Any site that has a longer entry on ‘truthiness’ than on Lutherans has its priorities [...]
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