Smelly Knowledge

Here are some things that are making me think as we transition into 2006:

• Joanna Weiss predicts that 2005 will mark the beginning of the end of serendipity.
• George Siemens is grappling with the nature of meaning making, learning, and subjectivity.
• Doug of Borderland is searching for a “broadened conceptualization of curriculum.”
• Lisa Lynch and Bob Stein of the Institute for the Future of the Book consider Wikipedia’s potential commercial turn, whether out of subversive necessity or categorical design.
• Meta of metas, Ulises Ali Mejias reports on using social software to teach about social software.
• Jason Godesky meditates on the true (truer?) meanings and implications of memetics.
• Can an ultimate theory of Lost really be found, and will the boys from South Park, Colorado, ever grow up?

Happy New Year, and I hope 2006 brings a sense of satisfaction in the search, whatever you are looking for, to everyone.