Monthly Archives: September 2006

[IR7.0] Blogs, identities, and epidemics

I split sessions this morning. The sessions are not named this year, but I started in a program that seemed to circle around issues of identity. Social Class in Online Discussions The first presentation was on disclosure of class in parenting groups (Karen Farquharson of Swiburn). She was interested in the ways in which class [...]
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[IR7.0] Pre-conference on mobile learning

Well, I was blogging this as we were working, since I had a machine in front of me. But somehow as we came to our break, I was chatting with someone and my left hand, entirely without my permission, reached up and Apple-Qed away my post. Too bad, too, since it was an exemplar of [...]
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Bula!

I love to travel. I know I do, because it says so in my bio. But hold on a sec, what’s that feeling deep in my soul, aching for my own bed? Or perhaps it is (dun, dun, duh!) bad airline food. As an aside, I know you aren’t supposed to actually eat the airline [...]
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Off to Brissie

I’ll be in Brisbane all next week (Monday to Sunday) for the Internet Research conference. I should have a bit of free time, especially before and after the conference, so if you are in that part of the world, and would like to get together, drop me an email, or comment below.
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My blog’s influence

My influence [16683.2] Basically, it’s a ranking scheme that uses you Google PageRank, your Technrati inlinks, and your Bloglines subscriptions to determine how “influential” you are. I am one-millionth as influential as Slashdot, for example, and about a fiftieth of Smart Mobs, where I read about it.
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Google Time Travel

First of all: Google, buy a clue. It’s not a blog if it doesn’t have comments. Google is pushing their calendar, and in a recent post gets clever about time travel. But, as with most calendars, they do a terrible job of time travel. I’m crossing the international dateline next week, and my calendar is [...]
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Trusted Wikipedia Project

Many people dismiss Wikipedia out of hand as a trusted source, precisely because it is written and edited by “anybody.” This differs, they suggest, from a newspaper, which is “fact checked,” or from an academic paper, which is “peer reviewed.” Over the last two years, I have chatted with a number of people about the [...]
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