My old professor of world literature had theory on analogue and digital world , even nine years ago when the Internet started to grow and expand. As an active computer consumer, I asked him weather he would prefer to read novel as eBook or in paper form if he had …
Category: technology
Second life? No! or How did I quit…
Actually I was never active in Second Life. I joined few months ago, created avatar, started to explore, to investigate, participated/ audit few lectures and that was all. I never had any intentions to go deeper: sell, buy, use entertainment facilities, or interacting per se with unknown people. I was …
Science Blogging Conference – update and registration
If you didn’t register yet, here’s the chance. Yes, I’m coming to the Conference and will be flying over the pond (second time around, same place, different event) and East coasters will have a chance to meet me and talk on academic web 2.0 issues, science blogging, and everything else …
experiment in cyberspace: mutating genre meme
I have been tagged by Bora with a bit complexed meme, more as blogging and scientific experiment in cyberspace evolution and I’d like to see how it has progressed so far, from ‘my grand-grand parent’ to parent. Here are the rules, and my answers: There are a set of questions …
The secret of 2 millionth file on Wikimedia Commons
From Wikimedia Foundation listserv officially comes happy news that Wikimedia Commons now has over two million files. Since March 2007, Commons routinely have over 100,000 files uploaded every single month. It is becoming more and more common to have over 5,000 files in a single day, since Commons is still …
pedagogical faultlines – post festum
Just came back from Netherlands where I’ve spent great, useful quality of time talking, discussing with colleagues and professionals from different backgrounds, participating, exchanging information, sharing information. They all have in common new concepts and ideas of learning, using new media tools, as well as exploring institutional and cultural issues. …
The Free Mac Classroom
Months, years, whole life is open source principle and since two days ago was Software freedom day. Since my previous weeks, including this, and following ones, are open source knowledge and education days, weeks – Trebor posted interesting note (via Facebook) with the link with software packages and teaching resources …