Learning with the Fang

Not sure if I’ve got this right or simply leaped to a hasty conclusion:

Collaborate, Hierarchy, Top Down
Cooperate, Mesh, Bottom Up

Slide 43 from this excellent talk made me think it so:

Hoping someone will jump in and correct me if I am being too concrete.
Listen to the whole talk and note the subtle difference between cooperation and [...]

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Network!
YEP – THAT John Cleese is to extend his ‘chance to sound off in my old age’ online video distribution through thepodcastnetwork.com, of which he says:
‘is “rather good, run by Australians, and none the worse for that.” ‘

Congratulations to Cam our fearless leader, and the other team members who worked to make this happen. [...]

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I think re-mixing digital text, images audio and video is an important part of the future of language
I am anxious to see legal reforms that will allow safe and legal re-mix of digital versions of the sound and scenes that I grew up with
I get grumpy when I see important artefacts from my own upbringing [...]

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Last week Dave (LifeKludger) Wallace and I had a great chat with JP (Confused of Calcutta) Rangaswami on the latest episode of our podcast – The Extraordinary Everyday Lives Show #028. Those of you who read Confused of Calcutta will know that JP is a deep thinker and eloquent writer who totally gets ClueTrain. [...]

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I tip my hat to Leigh Blackall for his gutsy effort in tackling the tricky issues of using Creative Commons licenses skilfully. Leigh opened the webheads online convergence conference with his keynote talk by stepping outside his comfort zone, into the perilous waters of copyright. Leigh explains some of the unexpected restrictions that [...]

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