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…)