or, How A Meme With A Reference To A Jew For Jesus Hip Hop Artist Reminded Me Of Dangerous Ideas
I don’t really remember how I got there, but I ended up at memepool, the brainchild of del.icio.us founder Joshua Schachter and Jeff Smith. Posted on January 5th, 2006, was an entry which read:
The popularity [...]
From visual searches to verbal searches, (without intending to pull an Annie Hall) Marshall “The Medium Is The Message” McLuhan must be having a celestial party right now.
Podzinger is a search engine for podcasts. Rather than allowing you to just search for a podcast based on the title, description, tags, or categories (as podcasting [...]
Has anyone stopped to think about how computers might be different if the first widespread human-personal computer input device was the sketch pad and not the keyboard? I usually try to avoid the googly-eyed “wow” factor of new technologies, but this one, Retrievr, is very cool and has the potential for facilitating access for [...]
This is the first in an occasional series in which I hope to develop an argument for the continued development of critical literacy skills in “new media.” I am hoping to argue that it is not enough to grapple with the products and artifacts of these new media as “media types” (e.g., video, audio, [...]
There is no question in my mind that many of the ways that technology has developed — especially in facilitating the forging of connections between learners and content, learners and teachers, and learners and learners — are great boons to the field of education and to the cause of improving the learning process in general. [...]
A neat idea, started by Flickr frequentr Michel Benard: 2005 September 29 - a day on Earth.
The idea behind this photo group is to encourage as many people as possible from around the world to post one photo from one day. A collective snapshot of the planet Earth. In addition to being [...]
I just finished reading (again!) But Not The Hippopotamus by Sandra Boynton to my one-year-old son (he’s at the point where he gets ecstatic about reading the same book over and over — Where’s Maisy? by Lucy Cousins is another one he loves again and again and again). To sum up the book, a [...]
After my critique of connectivism and the emphasis on the conduit, I have decided to release two conduit-oriented Greasemonkey scripts: Trope for del.icio.us and Trope for Flickr. Basically, Trope is an extension of the Flickr Tag Convergence script, yet with a funky new name and a stand-alone page on this blog (see the Trope page). [...]
Flickr Tag Convergence is now Trope.
The Flickr Tag Convergence Script
A contribution to Web 2.0. Flickr Tag Convergence is a Greasemonkey script for the Mozilla Firefox browser which allows you to search for any tag on a Flickr photo page on either del.icio.us or Technorati with one mouse click. The script places small icons [...]
There’s alot going on in the early-adopter-web-development-community right now, and like many others (e.g., Will Richardson, Alan Levine, Brian Lamb, and David Warlick) I believe that the impact of these new technologies — and the new mindset — will (eventually) have a pretty profound impact on the field of education and the business of learning. [...]
