Open Source advocate Eric Raymond once famously wrote, “Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.” After the whole Dan Rather distributed debunking episode, I’m wondering if the same could be true of all (or, at least, many) problems with fact-checking public statements. This would include articles in the mainstream press, of course, but it could [...]
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Gilad Ravid and Sheizaf Rafaeli’s new piece in FirstMonday, “Asynchronous Discussion Groups as Small World and Scale Free Networks“, analyzes a voluntary learning community that develops on a university’s LMS. These are all students who are (apparently) registered for on-campus web-enhanced courses with strictly voluntary web-enhanced components. Interestingly, the study analyzed networking for the entire [...]
Cole Complese provides a great model of one way to use a class blog. Take a look at this post as a good example. The use of the rubric is smart.
One of the things that this highlights for me, though, is that blogs and discussion boards ultimately need to fuse. What you have here is, [...]
From Jon Udell:
Abandoning taxonomy is the first ingredient of success. These systems just use bags of keywords that draw from - and extend - a flat namespace. In other words, you tag an item with a list of existing and/or new keywords. Of course, that idea’s been around for decades, so what’s special about Flickr [...]
I have just had a few interesting email exchanges with some folks associated with AVOIR (African Virtual Open Initiatives and Resources). The group has a dual purpose of developing an Open Source course management system (called KEWL.Nextgen) and cultivating African programming talent in the process. Organizations that will use their system include NetTel@Africa, an organization [...]
