Tag Archives: Research

Social Mind-Extensions

By alex | Published: 3/22/2004
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 […]
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Collaborative web publishing as a technology and a practice

By alex | Published: 3/21/2004
[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 […]
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Interactive News

By alex | Published: 3/10/2004
Computerworld is running a story on the future of news. Many of the “big names” in this area are quoted. But I think they ought to be thinking less “Minority Report” and more “Bloglines.” That’s not to say that I think the future of news is RSS. In some ways it sounds like this is […]
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Rolan the Datapimp

By alex | Published: 2/22/2004
This is, in fact, a reply to a comment made by Rolan the Datapimp (of Orkut mapping fame) in the “below thread”:https://alex.halavais.net/news/archives/000789.html. Go read that first, if you haven’t already. First, I want to thank both Alan and Rolan for great comments. It will give us a nice set of things to discuss in my […]
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