Here in one place are some largely unfiltered snippets from my FriendFeed "stream" (about 2 posts per day) for the period 19 May to 3 June 2012.
Raspberry Pi: A computer that doesn't matter. Mark Johnson's response to Donald Clark. See also http://ff.im/XLhTh - http://dailyimprovisation.blogspot.co.uk/2012...
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Dan Barker's - @danbarker - excellent "Rough Guide To Google Analytics" @A_L_T webinar - Blackboard Collaborate recording, 31/5/2012 - http://repository.alt.ac.uk/2217...
The need of Plan B. Paul Krugman - Newsnight, 30 May 2012 - convincingly counters John Moulton (venture capitalist/Conservative donor) and Andrea Ledson (Conservative MP/previously Financial Institutions Director at Barclays Bank, hedge fund MD, and Head of Corporate Governance for Invesco Perpetual). - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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How was Twitter used during the 2011 riots? Researchers and Guardian win top journalism award. "An academic collaboration with the Guardian newspaper has been awarded a data journalism award for its work on how Twitter was used during last summer’s riots." See also http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk... - http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus...
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The New Degree for the New World. "Degreed is a free service that scores and validates your lifelong education from both accredited and non-accredited sources. Degreed gives you the way to have your education validated and enables you to unlock relevant employment and educational opportunities." - http://degreed.com/what-is...
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Udacity expands its range of courses: intro to physics and to statistics; logic & discrete mathematics; software testing; algorithms as applied to social networks. All start on 25 June. - http://udacity.blogspot.co.uk/2012...
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Donald Clark derides the Rasberry Pi. Google's Eric Schmidt applauds it: http://goo.gl/rVEyf. - http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.co.uk/
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BBC Newsnight - 7 July 2011 - Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger: 'I warned David Cameron [and Clegg] over Coulson link'. - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1...
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Neelie Kroes (VP of the European Commission): So close on Net Neutrality, but not close enough explains @dweinberger - http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger...
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Slavoj Žižek in the current LRB - Save us from the saviours: Europe and the Greeks. "Markets talk as if they were persons, expressing their ‘worry’ at what will happen if the elections fail to produce a government with a mandate to persist with the EU-IMF programme of fiscal austerity and structural reform." - http://www.lrb.co.uk/v34...
Will getting a bank loan for a start-up be harder for a graduate if s/he's got a £27,000 student loan? @edent thinks it will. - http://shkspr.mobi/blog...
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"We're creating a culture of distraction". Thoughtful piece by Joe Kraus who founded JotSpot (therefore very clued up) and is now a partner at Google Ventures. - http://joekraus.com/were-cr...
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Nicholas Carr "gamification-fueled unsourcing is a great breakthrough for both business and the social web..it's a win-win all around. Except, of course, for the chump who - n00b! - loses his job." (Isn't there a "lump of labour fallacy" issue in here somewhere - http://goo.gl/TWsKD?) - http://www.roughtype.com/archive...
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Larry Sanger Blog » Is there a new geek anti-intellectualism? http://friendfeed.com/bdieu...
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1998 presentation by Paul Bacsich making "best guess" predictions about the future of networking technologies at a gathering organised by the just established Ufi http://www.matic-media.co.uk/present... [PPT file]. You look back on it - I was there for Paul's talk - and think "it all seemed so horribly complicated compared to how things turned out".
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"Publishing Paradigms of the Future: Where are We Headed?" Slideshare of 27/5/12 talk by Stephen Downes - http://www.slideshare.net/Downes... @downes
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Excellent, thorough, clear and very striking report by @TonyParkin from a a talk about the success of Finland's schools, given by Pasi Salhberg, DG of the Finish Centre for International Mobility and Cooperation. - http://www.agent4change.net/policy...
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@bobharrisonset writes in FE week about the conversion of the Ufi Charitable Trust into a grant-giver. See also http://ufi.co.uk/apply and http://goo.gl/6dJhd - http://feweek.co.uk/2012...
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Interesting report from the @Million_Plus Group about mature students' access to HE. "Contrary to the assumptions of many policy makers and politicians, nearly one in three ndergraduates at UK universities are over the age of 21 when they start their first degree." - http://www.millionplus.ac.uk/researc...
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The emergence of a "digital underclass", by Ellen Helsper / @EllenHel of the LSE Media Policy Project - http://goo.gl/VvEAj; also a useful set of key 2011 documents about Digital Inclusion and ICT Policies. - http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/mediapo...
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Mike Lynch, founder of HP-acquired Autonomy, to leave HP (with rest of management team?) as 300 jobs under threat. Lynch is one of very few "home grown" software entrepreneurs. - http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Home...
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The Data Journalism Handbook - for anyone who thinks that they might be interested in becoming a data journalist, or dabbling in data journalism. Read, for example: http://datajournalismhandbook.org/1... - http://datajournalismhandbook.org/1...
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Willful blindness - via @tom_watson - interesting piece by Margaret Heffernan in the "Ivey Business Journal" (not my normal reading) - http://www.iveybusinessjournal.com/topics...
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Has Spector Saved Indie Music? This probably would not have made my laugh if "my" Danny wasn't the drummer. Nor would I have seen it. - http://noisey.vice.com/blog...
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Spector's debut album: "Enjoy it while it lasts" http://store.universal-music.co.uk/restofw... 12 tracks, out on 12 August @spector. #hopingtobelookedafterinmydotage
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Facebook-owned FriendFeed #fail: "Friendfeed.com uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate expired on 21/05/2012 20:53."
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@doctorow 14 May Guardian piece "If we don't operate within the realm of traditional power and politics, then we will lose". Excerpt below. - http://www.guardian.co.uk/technol...
"If people who understand technology don't claim positions that defend the positive uses of technology, if we don't operate within the realm of traditional power and politics, if we don't speak out for the rights of our technically unsophisticated friends and neighbours, then we will also be lost."
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Large-scale transformation of one large institution's curriculum. Promising looking slideshare by Mark Stubbs from MMU #lscrd - http://www.slideshare.net/mobile...
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Paul Krugman in the NYT "Apocalypse Fairly Soon". "Things could fall apart with stunning speed, in a matter of months, not years." [Via @eric_mazur] But it does not need to be this way. The excerpt below gets to heart of things. - http://www.nytimes.com/2012...
"Florida and Spain both had housing bubbles, but when Florida’s bubble burst, retirees could still count on getting their Social Security and Medicare checks from Washington. Spain receives no comparable support. So the burst bubble turned into a fiscal crisis, too."
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"Our children are being taught how to use digital things – but not how to make them." Via @joecar. Geoff Mulgan of Nesta (and before that No 10, and various think tanks) writes in today's Scotsman on Sunday. - http://www.scotsman.com/scotlan...
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Via Rob Rambusch - Mike Elgan's piece in Computerworld about how to publish from Google+. - http://www.computerworld.com/s...
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What Is "Ed-Tech"? @audreywatters is on the money with this piece about the very wide range of things, subjects, issues etc. that "Ed-Tech" (a.k.a. Learning Technology?) is about. See also http://www.alt.ac.uk/about-a... - http://www.hackeducation.com/2012...
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Dropping XO tablets from a helicopter into a village where there is no literacy. (I believe this is the research that Sugata Mitra is working on at MIT Media Lab.) - http://www.olpcnews.com/people...
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A freely available resource for automatically associating strings of text with English Wikipedia concepts. http://www.webcitation.org/67ky5o4... is the full paper by Valentin Spitkovsky and Angel Chang, which is explained by Valentin Spitkovsky and Peter Norvig in a long and thorough posting on the Google Research Blog. - http://googleresearch.blogspot.co.uk/2012...
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BBC News - Education Scotland (Government agency) is to consider how digital devices could be used on a wider scale. - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news...
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http://unglue.it/ - not a reference to Italy leaving the Euro but to a crowdfunded, E-Book liberation project. Audrey Watters writes in Inside Higher Ed. - http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs...
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