Scoble Gets the Future of Blogs All Wrong
Dear Scoble,
First, let me say. Robert…Mr. Scoble…you’ve been under a lot of heat lately. I don’t want to add to that. You’ve been extremely graceful while under fire. BUT! Wow, do you miss the mark with your latest Kyte video about the “blog of the future.” Let me tell you why.
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Ummm…Verbal Slips and Online Communications
“I caked a bake for the party.”
“Everything he says is a lack of pies!”
“Soooooo, ummm….”
We all do it. We hedge, repeat, and delay when we speak as our brains try to catch up to our mouths. We begin sentences, realize we don’t like where they’re going, stop and start over. We use little words like [...]
Web 2.0 and Self-Image
Please note that this is no way a finished idea. I’m sort of mulling this over and expressing it here to get feedback.
Recently a friend asked me why I don’t video blog. She said that she missed the enthusiasm of my face-to-face delivery in my blog. She likes my excitement and thinks that if I [...]
Best poster Ever!
This poster was created to advertise a talk I’m giving at Notre Dame in September. It’s the ass-kickingest poster anyone has ever made for one of my talks. I love it!
In other surreal news, I found out yesterday I was nominated for Faculty/Staff Homecoming Queen. Ha!
SLCC Pic
This pic is from the Masquerade Ball. Thanks to Aline Click for the pic.
Left: AJ Kelton (sorry_afk), me, and Mark “Typewriter” Bell
Big Things are Afoot!
I just got back from the Second Life Community Convention (SLCC) and I’m absolutely buzzing with big ideas! Don’t stop reading if you’re a SL naysayer. There’s more to this than meets the eye. If you’re at all interested in how Web 2.0 concepts are changing the internet and how we work, socialize, and think [...]
BACN!
I love how quickly an idea can pass around the net. From blog to video to IM to microblog…bouncy ideas abound. The latest is Bacn. According to Lifehacker (a blog you should read if you’re not) Bacn is:
“Email you receive that isn’t spam… And isn’t personal mail. It’s the middle class of email. It’s notifications [...]
It’s not just students who have trouble evaluating sources…
Over and over I have the “Wikipedia encourages careful source evaluation” argument with educators and administrators. Over and over I tell them that we need to teach students that no source is without bias and that all sources (even the holy Britanica) need to be evaluated. But a recent spew of supposed “research” announcements in [...]
Map of Forces Influencing Education
Not only is it right on but it’s a beautiful interface. Go check it out!
Roll your own LMS with Facebook
Getting tired of the Learning Management System on your campus? Ever look to see how infrequently your students actually log in to see their assignments etc? Let me tell you, it’s pretty darn infrequently. So why not create a course site on a social network where they already live? Facebook now has several apps that [...]
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