Learning with the Fang

This announcement by Jimmy Wales could be HUGE. If the Wikipedia community does indeed license work as Creative Commons, Attribution some very interesting things will happen:

We will have a decent sized target to test if good will triumph over evil with regard to openly licensed work.
We will have a great role-model for those who [...]

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In the light of all the recent Kerfuffle about FaceBook’s walled garden appearance at the moment, our recent chat with Chris Carfi from Haystack is very enlightening. Hear me discover the ‘pulse’ RSS feed for each haystack and mutter something like ‘that’s what facebook should have done from the get – go’.

Like Dave Says:

Christopher [...]

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My last few blog posts have hinted at this pattern forming in my brain around the need for a switch of defaults from CLOSED to OPEN in a range of things related to the Web. My frustrating experiences with my wifi enabled mobile phone have been a catalyst for a whole range of related [...]

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OK,
After Stephen Downes linked to the fruity language in my brief report on Gerry White’s kenote at the CEGSA conference (in my hometown of Adelaide, South Australia), I promised to post a more considered reflection. Well, dear reader(s), here it is! Gerry kindly sent me some images from his presentation and agreed [...]

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The final presentation I attended at the CEGSA conference got me thinking, really thinking – about a vision for a school of the future. Peter Simmonds leveraged his considerable experience and a couple of well chosen web videos to suggest that we should think beyond adding the latest equipment to the model of industrialised [...]

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