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Principles of Distributed Representation (SAC2005)

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Principles of Distributed Representation
Stephen Downes

“Not another metadata talk” he promises…. since Stephen puts his presentations online, and I saw him turn on Audacity to record his own session, I am bowing out of taking copious notes (well no, I changed my mind, see below)

While the intros are going, Stephen has a nice slide show of his photos from a visit to Aspen.

Before the notes, it’s worth saying that Stephen in person is how he is in hos written work – deeply thoughtful, self effacing, sarcastic, humorous, challenging…) also in his presentation, note the use of references and information just published yesterday.

And Stephen was on spot- challenging us, saying boldly what is crap and what is not… curious to hear from others how it was heard.

Onto a few notes (Cyprien Lomas was taking more detailed notes than I, but trying to do it together in SubEthaEdit, we ended up stomping on each other…)

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Conference Bagged

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flickr foto Another Conference Bagavailable on my flickr Another satchel bites the dust For me, the worst part about registering at a conference is when they hand you over the conference bag. Yechhhh. The only comfort is that 300, 1000, 6000 other participants are stuck with the same appendege. Out of 12 years in this […]

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Wow! Vox Declicii

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Whew! The guys down in the power department apparently flicked the switch on for Maricopa’s internet connection, (though email is still pending, but who the spam pile?). Wow, almost 28 hours without blogging, I almost have the shakes 😉 While the blog was down, I came across the wildly dynamic Vox Delicii , Michal Migurski’s […]

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FeedDigest Is Mixing It Up

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I only spent 15 minutes at FeedDigest “Making Your Feeds Fabulous” but its got a whole lot of “oompf” potential if you are trying to do more with using multiple feed sources. More or less, you create a “digest” that you can then mix in a few RSS feeds, and Feed Digest provides a whole raft of ways you can re-use the mixed up content.

Somebody up north may want to crank up their aggressiveness 😉 Inside joke.

Not feeling very creative, I whopped up a CogDogBlogest a mix of my WordPress blog feed, my del.icio.us feed, and my flickr feed. Ho hum. I get a RSS URL:
http://app.feeddigest.com/digest3/VGE7KGLMJ8.rss

But there are ways to customize the output with some pre-made and editable templates… and you can then resyndicate to your own sites using JavaScript, PHP, and some other tools.

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Small Ocotillo Pieces Tweaked

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As summer winds down and the school year ramps up, I’ve been trying to refine a bit of the Small Technologies Loosely Joined approach we created last year for our Ocotillo instructional technology initiatives… For those irregular readers, Ocotillo is a faculty led program that attemps to drive technology agendas here, having been around in […]

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Flicking The Switch

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AS an FYI, this blog, Feed2JS, and every other thing internet originating at Maricopa will be going offline Saturday July 30, from 7:00 Am to Noon (PST). They are needing to do major electrical upgrades to the main server room, and thus not only are web servers going down, so is email, phone, and internet […]