by Derek Morrison, 27 October 2008 There was an interesting and amusing ~5 minute snippet in the BBC Today Programme this morning initiated by the question Has blogging had its day? (audio) which itself was based on Paul Boutin’s recent Wired item Twitter, Flickr, Facebook Make Blogs Look So 2004 (Wired Magazine, 20 November 2008). […]
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Times Higher – “By the blog …” plus
October 21st, 2008
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by Derek Morrison, 21 October 2008 Zoe Corbyn’s article By the blog: academics tread carefully (Times Higher Education, 9 October 2008) was a good broad sweep of scholarly blogging and has generated some interesting commentary. Brian Kelly from JISC/MLA’s Web Focus service had referred Zoe to me as one example of a long term HE […]
Indiscrete addressability (a Third Life addendum)
September 4th, 2008
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by Derek Morrison, 4 September 2008 Following on from yesterday’s posting Third Life – Auricle: the next generation (Auricle, 3 September 2008) here’s a few more reflections on blogs as information object repositories. I believe the issues addressed yesterday and in today’s posting are relevant to any context where unique and persistent object identities matter, […]
Third Life – Auricle: the next generation
September 3rd, 2008
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by Derek Morrison, 3 September 2008 Over on the JISC-PoWR (Preservation of Web Resources) site there’s a posting entitled Auricle: The Case Of The Disappearing E-learning Blog (1 September 2008). Yes, that’s right this blog is the ‘disappeared’. While it’s a new experience becoming such a case study the author, Brian Kelly certainly raises some […]
Take me to your thought leader!
January 28th, 2008
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by Derek Morrison, originally posted 11 January 2008 (updated 13 January and 28 January 2008) For some time I’ve been mulling over the thorny question of leadership in this era of “digital democracy”, Web 2.0, “user-generated content”, and “wisdom of the crowds”. Consequently, I much welcomed the 9 January 2008 posting All about me by […]
Whose PLE is it anyway?
June 2nd, 2006
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I assume it’s because I’ve waxed lyrical about related matters in Auricle and various conference presentations that I’ve been asked by the CETIS Personal Learning Environment Experts Group to contribute my ‘position’ on Personal Learning Environments (PLEs). Although I’m wary of accepting the mantle of ‘expert’ – there are none in this area – I […]
