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I’ve been in Italy for about a week – first a trip to Milan to present at the International Enterprise 2.0 conference organized by Open Knowledge. Videos of presentations are available here (most are in English, even though titles are in Italian. I presented on Knowledge without Management). Useful case studies of emerging technology implementations [...]

Discussions of language results in controversy that falls broadly into two camps: language is innate or language is cultural and interactive in formation. Chomsky, Pinker, and others occupy the innate camp and numerous others occupy a camp that can be described as social-interactionist, connectionist, and emergent. This debate will not be resolved any time soon. [...]

Facebook and Twitter are recording enormous increases in amount of time spent on their sites by visitors. Twitter records an increase of over 3700% (year over year). Understanding which sites are increasing is use is only part of the discussion. I’d like to know what we are doing less. My email use is still the [...]

…and now, time for a bit of edutech-humour: Goodbye butts in chairs (to the tune of Candle in the Wind. My favorite line: “your interest burned out long before the training ever did” ).

I thought Wolfram Alpha was hyped (though it presents a very interesting approach to finding/using information online – I’ve collected reactions to Wolfram on my delicious search tag). Google’s soon to be released Wave will, in contrast to Microsoft’s release of Bing will be an entirely new exercise in hype and media attention. Wave is [...]