cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Now that she knows all about twitter, is Mom trying to pull an Evan Ratliff disappearing act? She grabbed my new issue of Wired before I could even read it myself, and was quite absorbed in the cover article. Lest I blog the wrong impression that Mom and […]
cc licensed flickr photo shared by lynchseattle I’ve read and pondered some of my colleagues concerns when they find some creepy account or nefarious avatar follows them on twitter. They have to deal with blocking or reporting or just feeling slimy. My own approach is quite simple, but I’d never presume to suggest it is […]
My mom is visiting me for the next 2 weeks. This morning, she said, “Can you explain this ‘twitter’ thing to me over lunch?’. I could not resist rushing out to tweet it 😉 This got some interesting responses, including one from Dean Shareski, who asked me to record the conversation. So at lunch time, […]
cc licensed flickr photo shared by jamesjyu We had a disturbing new phase on the NMC web site a few weeks back. Over a weekend, our office reported a flurry of about 200 accounts created. What we found was that real humans (because they got past a captcha) with real email addresses (because we send […]
Harvard Law prof Jonathan Zittrain deals with big scary issues, like encroachment of first amendment rights online and the invasions of privacy from bad software. His recent book paints a possible dark future for the internet. So it was a wonderful surprise when on last week’s plane travel I watched his TED Talk on The […]
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I’ve been home a few days now following a 2 week travel route that included the last week in Doha, Qatar to participate in the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE). It was an unusual meeting/trip/experience on several fronts, and I’m baffled trying to find a coherent thread to pull together, so lacking that, I am winging it.
The event itself, was usual and unusual, and mostly what I can say the event happening itself was the real result. It was an audacious undertaking, daring, many said, for Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al Missned, an extremely articulate woman leader in a place where woman don’t often lead, to convene 1000 educators/business people/press/publishers/activists/one cogdog to focus on making education, on a global skill, a vital/necessary goal. Some said the aim was to make WISE the “Davos of Education”.
I did not really see much of Doha beyond car/bus windows passing by, as most of the time was spent in venues in 2 hotels; there was one night out with friends in the Souk Waqif, and I am really, really bummed I did not do enough to catch up with Jabiz (aka Intrepid Teacher), who I met last year in Shanghai.
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So I cannot give any overall summary of what the place is like, besides it has a skyline of towers under construction that might make Shanghai look like a cow town. You really could not count the number of skyscrapers growing out of the sand, and there were even more things being built around, roads un-rolling, growing out of the sand.
cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog I arrived in Doha, Qatar, after the 4+ hour trans USA flight, and then another long 13 hour hop on Qatar Airways- which I have to say for even in coach class, had amazing service on the giant 747- everything from hot towels to cold beer to meals […]
cc licensed flickr photo shared by Darren Larson I’m feeling many parallels between my current training to run a half marathon and trying to crank out 50,000 words for NaNoWriMo. Obviously a regimen is needed, the goals are both things I question (or have questioned) whether I can do, falling behind the schedule– puts you […]
cc licensed flickr photo shared by Darko Pevec While I acknowledge the value (and usually am responsible for) being able to publish archived recordings of webinars, I must admit the grand total of recorded webinars that I have gone back to watch is… (drum roll, counters flipping) Zero. Partly its laziness, but I never seem […]
Follow me through this path of incongruities. We live in this hyper-connected modern age, where larger than every managed before information is retrievable, sharable, around the world. All that Did You Know stuff. Standing at the precipice of the Web of Data possibly soon accessible via one of those hand flying Minority Report interfaces. Perhaps. […]
