Listening to blogs
Kurzweil posts about a system developed for “mining the blogosphere,” i.e. BlogSum, a sophisticated listening natural language processing system for […]
Science, Social Media, Teaching and Learning, Technology
Teaching and Learning
Community, Teaching and Learning
The Art of Conversation
John McDermott at Financial Times writes “How to have a conversation”: What makes a good conversationalist has changed little over
Networks, Teaching and Learning, Technology
Howard Rheingold: Net Smart
In 2009, Howard Rheingold created an excellent mini-course in network literacy, a substantial resource for those who want to learn
Community, Events, Futures, Teaching and Learning, Technology
Contact Summit: “It’s time to take back the net”
This week, on October 20, a diverse assortment of forward-thinking, Internet-savvy, solutions-oriented people gathered in New York City for Contact
Business, Futures, Teaching and Learning
1 Semester Startup
In the first decade of the 2000s, I was fired up about the potential for an energized entrepreneurial scene to
Community, Democracy, Government, Media, Participatory Medicine, Politics, Teaching and Learning
Collaboration, cooperation, democracy
Everybody’s head is a strange universe filled with echos of voices they’ve heard over and over again. Against this, we
Futures, Global, Journalism, Social Media, Teaching and Learning
The future of global online journalism
(Update: Alfred Hermida blogs Vivian Schiller’s 7 reasons to be cheerful about journalism at Reportr.net.) The evolution of networked global
Design, Teaching and Learning
Infinite Games
Via Flemming Funch, a review of “Finite and Infinite Games – A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility” by
Futures, Innovation, Knowledge, Teaching and Learning
Gary Chapman
Hearing via Twitter that my friend Gary Chapman of the LBJ School has died. News of his death was posted
Innovation, Knowledge, Networks, Teaching and Learning
Steven Berlin Johnson: good ideas
On October 20, I caught Steven Johnson’s talk at Book People in Austin. I’ve known Steven since the 90s –
Design, Teaching and Learning
Flip it!
Daniel Pink has a smart article on flip thinking, a trend in innovation. It’s a matter of rethinking sequence logic:
Body, Participatory Medicine, Teaching and Learning
Self-Diagnosis and Participatory Medicine
The Journal of Participatory Medicine has published an interesting piece on Self Diagnosis, subtitled A Discursive Systematic Review of the
Productivity, Teaching and Learning
Where ideas come from
Wired News hosts a conversation between Kevin Kelly and Steven Johnson, who’ve written similar books… Steven – Where Good Ideas
Events, Government, Social Media, Teaching and Learning, Technology
All government is local 2.0: manor.govfresh
Manor, a small town in Texas a few miles from Austin, has become an unlikely star player in the new