In September 2004, the activity we called audioblogging was starting to gain traction. There were a dozen or so regular programs. We had tools for creating audioblog feeds, and an aggregator that...
Month: December 2019
I always forget this web interface exists when I’m not near an IRC client.
Zsolt Benke (decoding.io)I made a lot of adjustments to my blog to use IndieWeb technologies, so in essence: I can reply, like or repost tweets, receive mentions as comments here, and update my status, all from Decoding.
This is really cool, since I can keep everything under my control, but I can participate in social services.
Kudos!
I love the clean simplicity of your site too. Is your theme open-sourced? I suspect that there are many who would consider using it.
Here's a quick demo of how I write on my blog. It's more like using Twitter than WordPress.
hat tip: Zsolt Benke
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. With Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jessie Royce Landis, John Williams. A retired jewel thief sets out to prove his innocence after being suspected of returning to his former occupation.
Passively watched while surfing online.
For 300 years, the dream of science was to understand the world by chopping it up into pieces. But boiling everything down to basic parts does not tell us about the way those parts behave together. Physicists found the atom, then the quark, and yet these great discoveries don’t answer age-old questions about life, intelligence, or language, innovation, ecosystems, or economies.
So people learned a new trick – not just taking things apart but studying how things organize themselves, without a plan, in ways that cannot be predicted. A new field, complex systems science, sprang up to explain and navigate a world beyond control.
At the same time, improvements in computer processing enabled yet another method for exploring irreducible complexity: we learned to instrumentalize the evolutionary process, forging machine intelligences that can correlate unthinkable amounts of data. And the Internet’s explosive growth empowered science at scale, in networks and with resources we could not have imagined in the 1900s. Now there are different kinds of science, for different kinds of problems, and none of them give us the kind of easy answers we were hoping for.
This is a daring new adventure of discovery for anyone prepared to jettison the comfortable categories that served us for so long. Our biggest questions and most wicked problems call for a unique and planet-wide community of thinkers, willing to work on massive and synthetic puzzles at the intersection of biology and economics, chemistry and social science, physics and cognitive neuroscience.
David Krakauer's Webpage & Google Scholar Citations.
Serena (supine-owl.com)Does anybody else have this problem: I can’t decide on a domain name or constantly wanting to change my domain name…
For my primary domain I’m generally happy, though I do sometimes wish I was using a domain with my name in it. I do often have a problem of collecting other domain names and wanting to build quirky and interesting things on them. Some I’ve had for ages and just haven’t had the time to do the things I bought them for. I wonder if there’s a 12-step program for domain hoarders?
Serena (sleepyowl.ink)So over a year ago I listed out all my subscribed podcasts. It’s been over a year, and there has been some changes. In case anyone is looking for new shows to listen to… Too New to Judge 7am – I want to try getting into some daily local news podcast (not tech news). However, I have yet to list...
Serena (supine-owl.com)Liked How to Add to Blogging Conversations... And Eliminate the Echo Chamber (ProBlogger)
Just going through my old bookmarks and found this article. Some interesting ideas to keep in mind. Although I wonder where this current post would sit in his 11 ideas? This post doesn’t add to the conversation, but it just introduces the conversation to a wider audience…
Jeffrey B. Paul (Twitter)With holidays cards rolling in daily, it's the time of year where my wife has to continually respond to me with "yes, they've had # kid(s) for A WHILE NOW" with a heavy eye roll as if I'm supposed to remember ever.... oh crap I left the keys in the car brb
— Jeffrey B. Paul (@jeffpaul) December 12, 2019
I’m living this same story…
Textbooks are too expensive.
OER is a nice way to go, but I’ve also mentioned before how to restructure the textbook business so the economic balance is righted.
tl;dr: Professors aren’t doing the learning, so at most they should recommend one or more textbooks, but never require them. The students should choose their own textbooks or otherwise fend for themselves (many are already doing this anyway, so why disadvantage them further with the economic burdens) and direct market forces will very quickly fix the problem of run-away book prices.
Professors should not be middle-people in the purchase decisions of textbooks.
Nate Angell (xolotl.org)Today folks are gathered at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Mother of All Demos (“MOAD”), a notorious event held in 1968 in San Francisco’s Civic Auditorium, where SRI’s Douglas Engelbart and others demonstrated computer systems they were developing and which many folks point to as one of the most important events to presage and shape our digital technology environment today.