Skip to content

Monthly Archives: December 2009

10 ways social media will change in 2010

Social media is now a stratospherically ambiguous term. I mean, really, what does it mean? Apparently, everything is social media – a blog, a youtube video, a mobile phone. What isn’t social media?? This lack of clarity is always a good indication that the hype cycle is feeding itself. With that vagueness in mind 10 [...]

The physical is virtual

The physical and virtual worlds are blurring. The internet of things (physical networks objects) moves in this direction. However, Google’s announcement today of Goggles – the worst-named product in their arsenal – is quite interesting. Basically: take a picture and Google returns search results. Soon we’ll search the physical world in the same way as [...]

Balloons, networks, and human motivation

DARPA ran a Red Balloon challenge last week to explore “the roles the Internet and social networking play in the timely communication, wide-area team-building, and urgent mobilization required to solve broad-scope, time-critical problems”. DARPA positioned 10 red weather balloons in different locations around the US. The first group that located all 10 balloons would receive [...]

Why we need to pay attention to copyright

I’ve paid for all of the music on my laptop. And images (through istockphoto). I don’t use P2P services for sharing music or movies – as I type, I’m downloading Important Things with Demetri Martin off iTunes. I don’t mind paying for content if I find value in it. So it’s easy to think that [...]

Socializing Open Learning

My presentation in Barcelona – Socializing Open Learning – is available as an elluminate recording. Slides are available here. Stephen Downes’ presentation on Role of Open Educational Resources is also available. Universitat Oberta de Catalunya has posted a short commentary on most of the presentations during the conference. A great experience!