Another London Wiki Wednesday last night, and a good one too. This time hosted by Bearing Point in Paternoster Square. Tiddlywiki was on show again, this time with a quick prototype of an app for setting up VOIP connections in the form of “speedgeeking” which was chaotic as intended. I spoke on ‘the importance of […]
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Registration for the pajamanation global microjobs exchange is now going to be free, forever. There will be no subscription fee, and no commission or percentage charged on microjob contracts. Just as I pondered after listening to Jyri Engestrm, the business model for a sucessful website these days often needs to change. “Charge the publishers, not […]
Like a previous post, ( and this one and this one ), this is another blog post inspired by conversation on a listserv (email discussion group). The discussion was sparked off originally by a request for advice on dealing with repeated disruption in an online community. The e-Mint community responded with some suggestions, including technological […]
I’ve been thinking about Jyri Engestrm’s geek dinner where he outlined the Five Principles of Social Objects. In particular, if this approach is significantly beneficial for designing sucessful social websites then what sort of implications, suggestions and ideas can be generated by applying this to PajamaNation, the global microjobs exchange? You should be able to […]
Tony Karrer has usefully kept track of a list of 16 out of the outburst of blog posts continuing the discussion around PLEs and work: More Discussion on Personal Work Learning Environments : eLearning Technology Then he wonders… .. if people will adopt these tools and approaches over time, then as a corporation, if you […]
A little spat between Stephen Downes and Jay Cross triggered by the current discussion around Personal learning Environments ( PLE ) may help to uncover important fundamentals. Jay Cross seems to think that the social revolution against corporate ownership of the means of production has already happened: Informal Learning Blog :: Nonsense from Stephen In […]
Nothing to do with pajamanation – at present.. The Third Annual Satin Pajama Awards | A Fistful of Euros The Third Annual Satin Pajama Awards by David Weman A Fistful of Euros proudlly presents the Third Annual Satin Pajama Awards, celebrating the best of the European blogosphere. Related posts: 2006 Edublog awards – classroom displays […]
Miguel wrote some reflections about blogs and communities, relating to listservs. I read it in my email, from a subscription to the com-prac yahoogroup. Blogs as community killers? « eme ká eme Blogs as community killers? 9 05 2007 Here is an experiment. I followed the link to the blog, which I subscribe to anyway, […]
Just when I finally got around to finding a way to connect up a cassette player to my computer, the medium is declared obsolete: Currys gives cassettes the boot – blaming the “MP3 generation” That icon of music discovery, the audio cassette, looking to be heading off the shelves for good. High street retailer Currys […]
Via Linda‘s Furl… BBC NEWS | Education | Students assessed with Wikipedia Postgraduates at the University of East Anglia are being assessed as they edit existing Wikipedia articles and research and write their own pieces. Students have to edit eight articles on the online encyclopedia and then write their own article for the site. When […]
