On the list of question topics that anesthetize me, just below FERPA and Intellectual Property, is the query on a project, “Does it scale?” Scales are fine for lizards. And weighing stuff. Expanding things by scaling them is not the only model of growth. For Massive Open Online Courses, this year’s poster child the Stanford […]
A few clicks back I coined the made up term “linktribution” to represent the recommended way of thanking someone for use of their open licensed content by linking back to the original. It is the least one can do, eh? Sadly it does not happen nearly enough, note this article on Psychology Today — not […]
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, […]
As you may know, after seeing her speak in 2008 at SXSW and WordCamp, I was rather determined to invite Kathy Sierra to keynote the 2009 NMC Summer Conference. I was a fan long before this as a follower of her blog Creating Passionate Users. I had done a parady of her graphic style in […]
This story is old news if you followed my trail last month through Australia. Being up again in Strawberry, Arizona, and seeing flowers tll blooming in mid November (global warming is hot here) got me thinking again about the most amazing example of web serendipity that happened in Tasmania. It’s one of those thing that […]
Actions speak much more clearly than definitions. It was D’Arcy at the UBC Social Software Salon who described it something like being removing or downplaying the “software” portion of online social interaction. Whatever your way of describing what “social software” is how, submitted below is a nice example of the informal way the web, blogs, […]
