My oh my, can this really be a WordPress post? (feeling Groom-y)

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } PorcuJim, originally uploaded by Serenae. So, we have very quietly been running some WordPress blogs for the past month or so. I say “quietly” because we are treating this is as […]

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When the wheels come off: on information, experts, and the limits of the crowdsourced hype brigade

An excerpt from Neil Postman’s 1985 book Amusing Ourselves to Death: …information derives its importance from the possibilities of action. Of course, in any communication environment, input (what one is informed about) always exceeds output (the possibilities of action based on information). But the situation created by telegraphy, and then exacerbated by later technologies, made […]

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Radical reuse: or, what happens to online learning when things fall apart?

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Banksy, originally uploaded by Pete Ashton. This blog is rapidly approaching a state of hibernation. I have not even pointed toward the contribution that Jim Groom (with major assists from Tom […]

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