Conversation and Content

Bee sent me the link to this post by Jeff Jarvis, who writes about the value of content these days:
But in this new age, you don’t want to own the content or the pipe that delivers it. You want to participate in what people want to do on their own. You don’t want to extract [...]

blog@USF Project

Here’s a cool use of Wordpress and social networking tools in an institutional setting: blog@USF:
* Based on WordPress.
* Includes a digital photo album manager based on Gallery
* Uses your USF NetID and password. One username and password to access your blog, Email, and [...]

A Sad Day in Tennessee

Concerning Tennessee’s use of new technology to improve test scores in education, Paul Chenoweth has this to say:
If this is an effort to advance technology use by teachers and administrators, let’s call it what it is: a new system to track progress in making our students better test takers.
He’s smack on. What does [...]

P2P: an Ontological Shift?

The intense discussions we’ve been having behind the scenes over at Dekita.org in the last few months have got me thinking more about P2P as a way of being. As Michel Bauwens argues in P2P and Human Evolution, P2P has always existed as a relational dynamic in human societies, especially in the more egalitarian [...]

Conversation with Natalie d’Arbeloff

London-based artist/writer/cartoonist, Natalie d’Arbeloff, will be sharing how blogging freed her to be who she is and how it has become her virtual home with open windows to the world. The session is entitled, Blogging as Freedom and as Home. Join the conversation on Sunday in the ASO room at TappedIn, August [...]