Is a country merely constituted by a census of number of supposed inhabitants? It memes so. Via, I believe a recommendation on YouTube (based upon algorithms that absorb my activities), last night I watched the english translation of the documentary Facebookistan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCyO5uT9XfU In this country, there are people who delete their content, but on request […]
Go ahead and snicker with derision when I say the words “Second Life”… I hear ya. I am not sure why I thought of this, maybe it was Audrey Watters recent critique of the zombie like revival of VR — (Marketing) Virtual Reality in Education: A History. I am hear not to praise Virtual Reality, […]
When I followed the link from this tweet from Alec Corous Dr. Alec Couros “Young me, now me” from @zefrank https://t.co/RMemkHgJvW #ETFOAQInnovate — Dr. Alec Couros (@courosa) April 15, 2016 I knew I had to make it into a DS106 Daily Create. Sure it was from 2008, and I am not sure if Ze Frank […]
You could smell the self-righteous fuming over the intertubez when Evernote announced changes in their free plans. Here is a little lesson in human nature. No one likes having something taken away from them by someone else. It’s easy to predict the reactions: Outright anger from people who used a product for years without paying […]
How much surprise comes out of a thin little book! I’ve had this hardback copy of Ian Fleming’s Casino Royale on my shelf for a number of years. To be honest, it was from a batch of old books I purchased mainly for having a variety of old books to fill a book case. Published […]
NEWS FLASH! My wayback is back! Pretend you have found memories as a kid gawking at the dinosaur fossils on exhibit in the great hall of the Field Museum in Chicago. Your family vacation trip is planned to Chicago, and you wish to have your kids share the same experience. You know that Gorgeous George […]
Look at those tired, weeklong workshop worn down expressions on University of Guadalajara faculty in that photo above. This was the energy we saw a lot of earlier this month, for the entire time for the second year of the UDG Agora project, a collaboration between the Justice Institute of British Columbia and the Universidad […]
This is a true story of a photo. Maybe not amazing, but it gave me pause, even a stop, to smile. My own tiny little bit of internet self serendipity. Yesterday I sat down at one of these WordPress screens to compose a post for the Creative Commons Certification site I’m working on. Like my […]
Yes, you. That’s who I am talking too. I put out this idea a few weeks ago asking people to do an imagination exercise to tell us first what place a Creative Commons Certification might have for them, and how they might envision such a thing working. To me, it’s an interesting approach in this […]
NEWS FLASH! My wayback is back! Let me first say that the Internet Archive is one of the most important, impressive crowning achievements we have for preserving and understanding what is truly a transient information space. And I rely regularly on the WayBack Machine to research, discover, and fall into interesting rabbit holes. And let […]
