Okuna is an ethical social network silo for a brighter tomorrow.
I remember hearing about this when it was Openbook. Interesting to see where they’re at now, though it looks like it’s got a huge way to go.
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👓 For-profit, faux-pen, and critical conversations about the future of learning materials | Rajiv Jhangiani, Ph.D.
I remember the first time I heard the term “free riders” being used in the context of the open education movement. It was at the Open Education Conference in 2015 in Vancouver when, dur…
Of course the Open Education conference is just an open education conference and it certainly isn’t the only place to have these conversations. Regional events such as the Northeast OER Summit, the Cascadia Open Education Summit, Wisconsin’s E-ffordability Summit, the Statewide Colorado OER conference and others are wonderful options. Further afield, the OER conference and the Open Education Global conference are both events that welcome critical conversations. As do other events like Digital Pedagogy Lab and the many virtual conference hallway conversations facilitated by Virtually Connecting.
Nice list of open education and OER related conferences and communities.
👓 The Big Reveal | Buttondown | Dan Cohen
Dan Cohen (buttondown.email)An increasing array of cutting-edge, often computationally intensive methods can now reveal formerly hidden texts, images, and material culture from...
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👓 Yarns Microsub Server: Getting started guide | Jack Jamieson
Jack Jamieson (jackjamieson.net)This is a quick getting started guide for Yarns Microsub Server. This post will be updated and expanded. Yarns is a Microsub server that runs on your WordPress site. This means it can help you follow feeds from blogs, websites, and social media all in place, running on your own server. You tell Yarn...
👓 You don’t need Facebook News to keep up with news | Paul Jacobson
Facebook News (or, rather, a Facebook News tab), is rolling out in the USA, and there are valid concerns about this already, for various reasons. Whether you’re in the USA, or not, you don’t need (and may not want to rely on) Facebook News to keep up with the news. Instead, there is a tried, tes...
👓 Keanu Reeves, 55, goes public with his first girlfriend in DECADES | Daily Mail
He has not had a serious girlfriend in decades. But that changed this weekend when Keanu Reeves held hands with his business collaborator Alexandra Grant when at the LACMA event.
Why do I click on these things…
👓 Constantly building new memory palaces is annoying | Art of Memory Forum
Hello, I have a problem and I hope, you can help me. Is there a way to just memorize information with mnemotechniques without doing much work beforhand? My problem is, that I am tired of having to constantely building new memory palaces before I can memorize something. (Reusing memory palaces does not work for me, unfortunately.) Is there a technique where I don`t have to constantely memorize new loci, a technique where I can just put the infos somewhere and review them later? And if so, ho...
👓 The Crumbling of the OpenEd Coalition | e-Literate | Michael Feldstein
Michael Feldstein (e-Literate)At the OpenEd conference this week, David Wiley made an announcement that was more significant than it may have sounded.
An interesting case study about a community and some decisions it will have to make going forward.
👓An OpenEd Conference Update | iterating toward openness | David Wiley
David Wiley (iterating toward openness)After two amazing keynotes at #OpenEd19 this morning, I read the following statement to conference attendees: In 2003 I invited a small group of about forty people interested in open content…
👓 Why You Should Have a Website | James Gallagher
James Gallagher (James Gallagher)One of the main pieces of advice I have for people looking to accelerate their career is to start a personal website. I especially recommend starting a personal website to young and ambitious people who are just getting started.
Many pieces of advice around starting a personal website are incorrect. You don’t have to be a founder, a writer, or a brand to reap the rewards from having a personal website. You also don’t need to code your website yourself, or build some elaborate site with dozens of detailed pages. You just need to have a website that showcases your skills.
Great broad overview for why IndieWeb.
This is a kind of manifesto. It’s available for iOS and macOS.
An interesting online storytelling structure.
👓 New plugin allows the far-right to ‘graffiti’ any website | Columbia Journalism Review
Dissenter acts as a workaround for people wishing to comment on websites, even those without a comment section. One user, Cody Jassman, describe the plugin as “like the graffiti painted in the alley on every web page. You can take a look around and see what passersby are saying.” The plugin was launched in beta at the end of February by Andrew Torba, who co-founded Gab, a far-right social network. Gab is well known for being the platform where Robert Bowers, the suspected Pittsburgh synagogue shooter, published anti-Semitic comments before he allegedly killed 11 people and wounded many others at the Tree of Life synagogue.
👓 Constructions in Magical Thinking | Ribbon Farm
Venkatesh Rao (ribbonfarm)If you’re one of those sharp-eyed readers who notices such things, you may have noticed that earlier this week, we adopted a new tagline: constructions in magical thinking. We also got a cheery set of new mastheads to go with it (thanks Grace Witherell), which you’ll see in rotation at the top of the site from now on.
👓 Blogroll | Brendan Schlagel
A simple list of my favorite people on the Internet — makers of great projects, writers of great blogs, crafters of great tweets, senders of great newsletters. Everyone below has in some way shaped…