Jill' s Blog: Viral marketing campaigns and blogs as advertising
Viral marketing and teenager advertising

v-2 Organisation | news | Great. Now, Orkutspam.

Technikart.com - La gueule de l'autre

Technikart.com - La gueule de l'autre

salon :: :: sex :: world :: Ruining reps, By Jack Boulware :: Page 1
Ruining reps

Israeli porn producers are hiring actors who look like Egyptian stars.

By Jack Boulware

Technikart.com - La gueule de l'autre

Carnets de toile

Bouc émissaire (ou dindon de la farce). Dans toute l'effervescence qui suit la démission de David Kay de son poste de directeur des inspections en Irak, on voit que la Maison Blanche est en train de retraiter – tout en faisant mine d'avancer – derrière une ligne de front plus sécuritaire et dessinée par ailleurs depuis longtemps: c'est la faute aux services secrets! Actuellement c'est à la CIA que revient l'odieux d'avoir induit les dirigeants américains en erreur. La critique est double: non seulement les données de l'agence étaient complètement erronées, mais la CA a de plus manœuvré de manière à tromper toute la classe politique de Washington. Évidemment, les divers porte-parole de l'administration américaine ne parlent pas du stovepiping, cette manœuvre illicite par laquelle des renseignements bruts sont directement déviés vers les plus hautes instances du pouvoir, sans avoir été purgés (vetted) par les analystes de l'agence. Car c'est justement pour éviter que des dirigeants ne prennent des décisions sur la base de faits erronés (ou non contextualisés) que normalement tout renseignement doit être présenté au président d'abord par les équipes d'analystes et interprètes de la CIA. Quoiqu'il en soit, pour la Maison Blanche le bénéfice est double: d'abord se blanchir de l'accusation d'avoir trompé le peuple américain et le monde entier; ensuite, préparer le terrain pour un chambardement générale de l'agence, à qui on n'a jamais pardonné 9/11.

MatooBlog

Ethan Zuckerman's Weblog : Ethan's Weblog - My blog is in Cambridge, but my heart's in Accra

Ma deuxième mémoire

Mobilité urbaine

The Internet Courses: Weblogs

Oikos

Towards an Ecology of Mind Web Page

IVAN ILLICH - Vernacular Values

The New York Review of Books: A Special Supplement: Education Without School: How It Can Be Done

Ivan Illich

Development and Cooperation

Criticising the western model of development



By Aram Ziai and Cord Jakobeit

In the 1970s, Ivan Illich formulated a criticism of the industrial society and the modern age which is also relevant for the developing countries. He pointed out the impossibility of generalising the western development model and called for an alternative way of satisfying needs. His ideas are today taken on board in particular in the "post-development approaches", whose champions radically demarcate themselves from conventional thinking on development.

Ivan Illich: deschooling, conviality and the possibilities for informal education and lifelong learning

Educational Theory Spring 1994, David A. Gabbard

Ivan Illich

McLuhan Program - About - People - Mark Federman

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | The revolution should not be eulogised

Rebecca Blood In The Guardian

kickAAS

What is The Message?

Mc Luhan

SiT: Serious Instructional Technology (SiT): A Daily Log of Instructional Technology News and Ideas

Selling weblogs to faculties

McGee's Musings

Thinking in public

Long story; short pier.: All I have to say is, once this is over, the Iraqi people better be the freest fucking people on the face of the earth. They better be freer than me. They better be so fucking free the

L'Orientalisme, 25 ans plus tard, par Edward W. Said

Derni�res nouvelles : Communiqu�s de presse - Yasmine Khlat, laur�ate du Prix des cinq continents de la Francophonie - 17/11/2001

Yasmine Khlat, lauréate du Prix des cinq continents de la Francophonie - 17/11/2001

C’est à l’occasion du Xe Salon du livre et du multimédia, à Beyrouth (Liban) que LE PRIX DES CINQ CONTINENTS DE LA FRANCOPHONIE, a été décerné à YASMINE KHLAT pour son roman LE DESESPOIR EST UN PECHE, publié aux éditions Le Seuil, 2001. Le jury a également attribué une mention spéciale au saoudien Ahmad Aboudahmane pour son ouvrage La Ceinture (Gallimard, 2001).

The Truth Seeker - In Praise of Traditional Women

News - develnet.org

CoWiki : collaborative tool

research blogs

This is an annotated list of weblogs I have found that are used by researchers and academics as a part of their research practice. I'm gathering these links to find out more about how blogs are used in academia and research. If you know of any research blogs I haven't listed please let me know about them. If you're in the list and disagree with the way I've described you write and tell me why, and I'll probably change it. I would like the annotations to explain what kind of research each blogger does and how the weblog is used in that research.

Torill Mortensen and I have written a paper on blogs in research together, Blogging Thoughts: Personal Publication as an Online Research Tool (February 2002, PDF).

These kinds of weblogs are also called knowlegde logs, or k-logs or klogs. There's a mailing list about this called k-logs.

KmBlogger

Links and Power: The Political Economy of Linking on the Web

Links and Power: The Political Economy of Linking on the Web
By Jill Walker

yenayer -

A Movable Type Intranet#710

Common Craft - Online Community Strategies: Making Sense of Weblogs in the Intranet

Le KM s'applique aux territoires [EPISODE 1] - 23 Sep 2003

KM-CoP : Gilles en vrac...

Théorie du Don et Internet...

Neighbourhoods

The e-neighbors project
"We're often not at home, or if we're at home, we're inside our houses... We often have garden services. We don't mow our lawns. We don't have that familiarity with our neighbors. This is our over-the-fence."
I quite liked this quote referring to neighbourhood online message systems, from a Boston Globe article about Keith Hampton's e-neighborhoods project. The project has been looking at how email technologies can stimulate and support neighbourhood relations, in four local areas around Boston Massachusetts. Keith presented at a conference a couple of years ago which I organised in Oxford and a policy seminar in London. The news I'm waiting to have confirmed is that he'll be in England again some time this spring, for an event on neighbourhoods, and I'll announce that here as soon as I have the date. (No pressure Keith!)
Posted by Kevin Harris on January

City of Bits Blog on User Experience - Louise Ferguson

City of Bits
Louise Ferguson's news and views on technology, ethnography, paper, the workplace, communities and public policy

Designing for Civil Society: Top 10 Open Source Tools for eActivism

Top 10 Open Source Tools for eActivism
Dan Bashaw and Mike Gifford have put together a terrific list of Open Source tools that can be used by activists to spread the message and promote interaction by enewsletters, forums, blogs, wikis and epetitions. They wrote an article for Steven Clift's excellent Democracies Online Newswire.

Corn�lius Castoriadis : Le projet d'autonomie

Cornélius Castoriadis : Le projet d'autonomie
Gérard David, Michalon, 2000
Note de lecture

Ce livre, sorti l'année dernière constitue une précieuse introduction à l'oeuvre éclatée de Cornélius Castoriadis riche d'articles brillants et de rapprochements suggestifs mais souvent lourde et tâtonnante. Ainsi ce qui est considéré comme son oeuvre principale "L'institution imaginaire de la société" est assez indigeste. Il suffit, à mon avis, de lire les 20 premières et dernières pages, qui valent le détour, le reste n'apporte pas grand chose sinon une certaine confusion. On ne peut en tout cas négliger Castoriadis comme écologiste et théoricien de l'autonomie, aussi le livre de Gérard David est le bienvenu pour nous permettre de réinterroger un projet d'autonomie et de radicalisation de la démocratie qui est le nôtre même si nous devons aussi en dévoiler les paradoxes et critiquer les illusions d'une démocratie directe.

e-Learning Eclectic

Welcome to e-Learning Eclectic News!

e-Learning Eclectic is a news site dedicated to the subject of computer-based systems that facilitate learning. Whether it's synchronous, asynchronous, self-paced, EPSS, KM, m-learning, workflow learning, CBT, WBT, collaborative systems, social software... I generously lump it all under the banner of e-Learning, and I'll address it here.

Learning Objects

Definition

Some Formal Definitions

According to the Institute of Electronic & Electrical Engineers Learning Technology Sub Committee (IEEE LTSC) RLOs are

"any entity, which can be used, re-used or referenced during technology supported learning."


....

MERLOT Home Page

MERLOT is a free and open resource designed primarily for faculty and students of higher education. Links to online learning materials are collected here along with annotations such as peer reviews and assignments.

reusability.org

CLARK Training & Consulting

The Instructional Use of Learning Objects -- Online Version

This is the online version of The Instructional Use of Learning Objects, a new book that tries to go beyond the technological hype and connect learning objects to instruction and learning. You can read the full text of the book here for free.

Learning About Learning Objects

Talking About Learning Objects

Learning Objects - A personal definition
Pretend that you have been invited to a National Symposium on Learning Objects. You are standing near the cheese platter and who should walk up but David Wiley, Ruth Colvin Clark and David Merrill.

At first all only seem interested in the cheese, but eventually introductions are made and David Wiley dares to say, "Well, nice to meet you "your name", so... what is your own personal definition of learning objects?"

All three turn and look to you. What is your response?

Blahsploitation ...

Friday, January 23, 2004
US turns the "terrorism" witch-hunt on Chavez. It's pretty clear that there is no country in the world, which if not sympathetic to the US, that the US government won't try to tar as a "failed state" willing to support terrorism. The war is coming to South America.

Terror Close to Home In Venezuela, a volatile leader befriends Mideast, Colombia and Cuba

EContentMag.com: KM and Elearning: A Powerful Combination

KM and Elearning: A Powerful Combination

"In two years, KM will be a subset of elearning. Or elearning will be a subset of KM."

That Gartner prediction, cited in Rosenberg's book e-Learning, was made three years ago. Neither variation has come to pass.

Instead, the interactions of the two fields continue to increase and there seems to be a widespread agreement that KM and elearning are converging. And, perhaps more importantly, consensus is growing that this convergence is a good thing, that it should continue and intensify, and that both fields can benefit from a greater partnership. There have a been a number of works and articles exploring how and why elearning and KM are converging, including the Rosenberg book cited earlier, and a number of very good articles in KMWorld by Judith Lamont and others.

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There are also numerous examples of this growing convergence. One place KM and elearning are merging for a more powerful result is in the pharmaceutical industry according to Paul Sparta, CEO of Plateau Systems, a vendor of LMS infrastructure software. According to Sparta, "The pharmaceutical industry was an early adopter of both elearning and KM technology and is on the leading edge of their convergence because of the industry's rigorous regulatory requirements."

Other areas seeing a great deal of activity at the intersection of KM and elearning are call centers and technical support. Sparta also sees energy, aviation, transportation, chemical, and financial services as growth areas for this convergence. He says, "Any industry where knowledge must be delivered to people in real time, and then tracked and assessed, must consider strategies that merge KM and elearning."

Separate and Not Equal
It is clear then that there is a great deal of activity at the intersection of KM and elearning, but that raises the next set of questions: Which of the two possibilities that Gartner raises should it be? Who should lead the integration of KM and elearning and how best to achieve that integration?

Kairosnews | A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy


Don't Know How to Install Blog Software?
Submitted by cel4145 on January 14, 2004 - 17:30.
Blogs & CMSs
If you don't know how to install blog software, but would like to have your own site and domain, looks like there's no need to be limited to TypePad. I've pointed people previously to OpenSourceHosts, who runs opensourceCMS, because they will install an open source cms for free. The few people I know using it have had a good experience.

However, I just stumbled on bloghosts which seems to go one better. They have a web-based application, Fantastico DeLuxe, which will let the site owner install a wide variety of open source software. Looks like it might be fun for anyone interested in playing with Drupal, PostNuke, B2, pMachine, Nucleus and many other open source apps. Pricing looks good, too.

Too bad our institutions haven't installed Fantastico DeLuxe on their servers for us to use.

elanceur - Le Wiki du Futur est en route...

En attendant le WikiWeblog mobile en cours de réalisation, tout l'été fut passé à tenter d'explorer quelques pistes d'usages sur le téléphone autour de la fonction moblog. Débouchés esquissés pour le compte de deux opérateurs téléphoniques français désormais affairés à leurs lancements respectifs de bouquets de service multimédia.

Que faire ? Regarder à nouveau pousser la bulle sur le "networking social". Oui pour rire mais plus sérieusement, je crois toujours énormément au développement du petit Logiciel Social qu'est le wikiwikiweb. Joie de voir tomber quelques bons articles qui semblent enfin sortir wiki de son carcan de programmeurs...

Poynter Online - E-Media Tidbits

E-Media Tidbits
A group weblog by the sharpest minds in online media/journalism/publishing

UC Berkeley Journalism / New Media Program

Silicon Valley - Dan Gillmor's eJournal

elearningpost

Fast Company: If He's So Smart...Steve Jobs, Apple, and the Limits of Innovation
Good article describing Apple's failure to profit from its numerous innovations. Here's the best part:
Innovation: Getting it Right


Not All Innovation Is Equal
Technical innovation will earn you lots of adoring fans (think Apple). Business-model innovation will earn you lots of money (think Dell).
Innovate for Cash, Not Cachet
If your cool new thing doesn't generate enough money to cover costs and make a profit, it isn't innovation. It's art.
Don't Hoard Your Goodies
Getting to market on time and at the right price is vital. If that means licensing your idea to an outside manufacturer or marketer, do it.
Innovation Doesn't Generate Growth. Management Does
If you covet awards for creativity, go to Hollywood. Managers get rewarded for results, which come from customers.
Attention Deficit Has No Place Here
Every innovation worth doing deserves your commitment. Don't leap from one new thing to another. If your creation doesn't appear important to you, it won't be important to anyone else.

How to Save the World



THE FUTURE OF BUSINESS
This article is adapted from a presentation I am making at the World Congress on Intellectual Capital & Innovation at McMaster University later this week.


I'm going to start this future state vision at the front lines of a typical corporation, and look over the shoulder of a typical knowledge worker in 2015. The company this employee works for no longer has a knowledge centre, in-house researchers or a corporate library. In fact, it has outsourced and shrunk its IT and other infrastructure to zero. It has no in-house overhead, no 'back office'. Everyone on the payroll either sells product or delivers services to customers.

Joho the Blog: Why social software now?: "Why social software now?

A small brouhaha is brewhaha-ing over whether 'social software' is mere hype. (See Frank Paynter, for example.) After all, the category is about as broad as 'software for people' and includes technology as old as holding hands.
And yet it's the thing I came away from the O'Reilly Conference most excited about.
First, I consider social software actually to be emergent social software. That narrows the field to software that enables groups to form and organize themselves. Yes, it's still broad but at least it's not coextensive with any software that has a user interface.
Second, it doesn't much matter to me whether the software is new or old. I'm excited about the fact that that type of software is now being recognized (i.e., 'hyped') as important. And my question is: Given that most of the software is old, why is this category now becoming hot?
Sure, in part it's because consultants (like, um, me) and writers (like, um um, me) now have something new to flap their gums about. But, more important, I think and hope it's because the central idea behind emergent social software is now becoming acceptable: We're beginning to think that letting groups start without rules, letting people organize themselves as they see fit at the moment and in that context, is actually a good idea and not just a waste of time, a hippy dream, or a threat. Gosh, maybe a wiki isn't only an invitation to vandals but is a useful way for people to collaborate! But to think so means trusting groups of people to work well together even when their choke collars are undone.
Much emergent social software may be old hat, but that now we're willing to recognize its value is pretty damn exciting.
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Social Software

Wikis are Beautiful


By Ross Mayfield

With respect to Liz, I have to argue the point that wikis are beautiful, not ugly. Their beauty is in not trying to be pretty. They emphasize function over form over aesthetics.

Joi Ito had some great comments on the difference between looking and reading.

...McLuhan talks a lot about how "looking" at TV is different from "reading" text. When you read a book, your eyes are focused a bit above the text and the text sort of just goes into your head to create symbols. With TV, you actually LOOK. You really care if the font on the TV is ugly, but you rarely remember the font of a good book you just read.

So, maybe this is the difference. When I am on a Wiki, the way it looks really doesn't concern me as much as trying imagine and understand all of the context that is captured in the web of pages linking to and from the page. I imaging all of the people from all kinds of places and what they must be thinking. It's less about user interface and more about code...

Its actually more about the text. Context is gained from the page's revisions, links and how it is referenced by and navigated from other pages. Wikis excel at logical context whereas blog excel at temporal context.

Blogs, emphasize form over function over aesthetics. The form of posts in reverse chronological order and blogrolls constricts possible uses and design. Sure many a blogger has tweaked their template and design to achieve superior ascetics, but they are bound to constraints that if surpassed looses recognition as a blog.

Wiki's aren't pretty, but that's the point. Except in rare instances where design creates function, the more you design the more user functionality you sacrifice.

Wikis emphasize both reading and writing. Sure they could be a little more readable, but that would come at a cost for writing. Costs to be carefully considered for a tool that enables a writable web.

A Movable Type Intranet

A Movable Type Intranet
December 29, 2003 | 15 Comments | Post a Comment
Down at the hospital we are in the process of moving a huge portion of our intranet into Movable Type — about 90%. This includes departmental sites, informational sites, applications and just about a bit of everything else.

It’s a really remarkable and interesting solution that I think will pay huge dividends. If it goes smoothly, which I have no doubt it should, we’re going to be able to provide very low cost (both in effort and monetarily) distributed authorship and increase functionality for both our users and stakeholders.

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