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 [...]
Here are some worthwhile and interesting responses to and critiques of my last post, The Emergence of Meaning: Wikipedia As Object-Centered Sociality:
Artichoke posted a response positing, “‘What does it do?’ takes precedence… over what it might mean.”
Stephan Downes writes, “…I read the value of Wikipedia differently…. Wikipedia’s article selection also varies - while editors [...]
There is no question in my mind that our tools of the information age — computers, the Internet, cell phones, all the associated accoutrements — are changing the way we, as participants, do things and even think. That certainly doesn’t mean that these changes are necessarily and always changes for the good.
George Siemens of the [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
