Here in one place are some largely unfiltered snippets from my FriendFeed "stream" (about 2 posts per day) for the period 2 to 18 May 2012. (Updated: 20151201)
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The Success of Open Source. Perceptive 2005 review of Steven Weber's "The Success of Open Source" in LRB by Lawrence Lessig - http://www.webcitation.org/67kKJHg.... See also http://fm.schmoller.net/2006... with links to talk by Weber.
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Unmissable. Matthew Bannister interviews John Carlos about his and Tommy Smith's "gloved fist protest" on the Olympic 100m podium in Mexico in 1968. 40 years has not dimmed Carlos's anger. 28m MP3. - http://www.bbc.co.uk/program...
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Google's "Knowledge Graph" looks like a response to / version of / alternative to Wolfram Alpha [http://www.wolframalpha.com/] - http://www.google.com/insides...
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Workplace Safety Inspections Save Money, Jobs, Limbs. A strong argument against deregulation - Scientific American piece by Katherine Harmon. - http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observa...
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Public access to publicly-funded research. Something is happening when Open Access, Hargreaves, Kurzweil, Weinberger, Gordon Moore, Trip Advisor, crowdsourcing, and Tim Berners Lee all get a mention in a UK Government Minister's speech. - http://www.bis.gov.uk/news...
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Clayton Wright's June - December 2012 Educational Technology and Education Conferences listing - http://fm.schmoller.net/2012...
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Welcome to Life (or the Singularity, ruined by lawyers), by Tom Scott. Wonderful. Via Stephen Downes. - http://www.tomscott.com/life/
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Peter Sellers narrates the Denis Norden and Frank Muir's 'Balham - Gateway To The South'. This arrived with a Dansette and a Lonnie Donegan record in about 1959. - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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@profserious on Digital Literacy. Anthony Finkelstein's is the first treatment of the term by a computer scientist that I've come across, though I'm not with him on the phrase "Digital literacy should provide an armature for skills acquisition". Would "framework" or "motive force" be better? - http://blog.prof.so/2012...
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Is 3D printing the key to Utopia? Not according to @jjn1 in today's Observer. - http://www.guardian.co.uk/technol...
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"The SIM-less Phone Is Coming. And It Should Scare The Shit Out Of You" by Terence Eden. - http://shkspr.mobi/blog...
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Knowledge Unlatched - an approach to making books Open Access. A consortium pays an initial fee to the publisher to cover a book’s first copy costs. In return for this fee, publishers agree to make a digital version of each book available online at no cost on an Open Access licence. Publishers retain the right to sell physical copies of books, as... - http://biginnovationcentre.com/Impact...
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Spector's cover of Kavinsky's Nightcall, recorded at the BBC's Maida Vale studio. - http://ddais.tumblr.com/post...
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Children and online pornography – does the evidence justify calls for more regulation? by LSE's Sonia Livingstone - http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politic...
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Interesting [via @mattlingard]. Greta Munger's "Having Undergraduates Write for Wikipedia". Excerpt below. - http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index...
"When I read about the APS Wikipedia Initiative (APS WI) challenge to have students help correct Wikipedia, I thought it sounded like a really neat idea. To write a good Wikipedia article, the students need the same reading and research skills that my old assignment required with the advantage of contributing to the public good."
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You have to ask yourself why no UK universities (bar the OU?) seem yet to be emulating MIT, Stanford, et al by making courses freely available online worldwide http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...
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What France must tell Germany - Martin Wolf in the FT - http://on.ft.com/JQD4Y6 - what is needed is "symmetrical adjustment of the imbalances that built up before the crisis, along with reform in weaker countries". "The chances that Mr Hollande can deliver such a changed perspective are small.... But he alone of European leaders has the desire and the ability to try."
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Egalitarianism meets elitism? Specialist mathematics free schools - interesting collection of articles from the London Mathematical Society. - http://education.lms.ac.uk/2012...
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Jonathan Portes (Lamont's speechwriter in 1993 when Cameron was L's 26-year-old special advisor) shows how a previous Tory Chancellor made the right call on the deficit. - http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012...
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AI = "the theory and development of computer systems able to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence". 2 minute snippet of a video interview with Peter Norvig by James Temple. Direct link to video: http://vimeo.com/41632625 - http://blog.sfgate.com/techchr...
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The 5 Best Toys of All Time - if you were a "tinkerer" you will understand. - http://www.wired.com/geekdad...
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In praise of tinkering (by implication) Jonathan Drori's 2007 12 minute TED talk on what we think we know. - http://www.ted.com/talks...
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@jjn1 "Finally, we need to stop being dazzled by the tech sensation du jour (....) and focus instead on something mundane that really works, reaches everyone, provides valuable services for poor people, exploits nobody and is based on a sustainable business model." - http://www.guardian.co.uk/technol...
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Links for a session about technology and learning - http://fm.schmoller.net/2012...
May 6 from Fortnightly Mailing
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Lapsed Use of the Internet Amongst Young People in the UK: Digital Choice or Digital Exclusion? Important current study by OII. Focus: the 10% of 17-19 year olds in Britain who are lapsed Internet users, that is, young people who used to use the Internet but no longer do. See also http://tinyurl.com/d45yvgx - http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/researc...
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Help your students become better searchers. Support resources from Google, including lesson
plans and activities, an archive of past (with links to future) live training sessions. - http://www.google.com/insides...
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Online learning is both coming of age and is in a state of flux.. Curtis Bonk's Mayday post provides an optimistic and astute overview. - http://travelinedman.blogspot.co.uk/2012_05...
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Thrun - oozing optimism - explains. One of his main messages for innovators is "Don't listen to your managers". 30 minute video about i) [0-13.30] self-driving cars; ii) [13.30 to 23.52] online learning and the way it will transform education; and iii) [23.52+] X - Google's innovation lab. - http://fora.tv/2012...
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