Author: Oliver Wrede
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WMD and lies
This article by John W. Dean reads like the worst thing that could happen to the world is an impeachment of the president of the United States. The article is titled “Is Lying About The Reason For War An Impeachable Offense?” What a strange question is that? If there is something that seems to be…
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Weblogs in education – part 2
David Carraher identifies a fundamental issue: “There are barriers separating teacher education, curriculum development, and research about learning and teaching.” I don’t know if he makes a general argument about the development of education systems or if he just reflects on Harvard. From my local experience here in Germany I can say that there are…
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Students and Deuterolearning
Spike Hall: For the moment I say that the pay-off of learning-to-learn, aka deuterolearning, is an achieveable, and eminently worthwhile, goal. Weblogs, I believe, are a possible mechanism. [Connectivity: Spike Hall’s RU Weblog]
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Thought provoking
Jay Cross about the »Weblogs and Discourse« paper: »This is thought-provoking if you’re contemplating the interplay of blogs and learning.«
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Blogging a chore to students?
Stephen Downes comments on the »Weblogs and Discourse« paper: For those students who find writing a chore, blogging is a chore. Those students who wouldn’t write a journal, or a news article, or a letter, won’t write a blog. If we have to convince people to blog, to in some way grade them or mark…
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Scholars Who Blog
David Glenn: n their skeptical moments, academic bloggers worry that the medium smells faddish, ephemeral. But they also make a strong case for blogging’s virtues, the foremost of which is freedom of tone. Blog entries can range from three-word bursts of sarcasm to carefully honed 5,000-word treatises. The sweet spot lies somewhere in between, where…
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How to deceive
Someone called »Billmon« made a collection of statements about weapons of mass destruction from members of the US administration.
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What experts say now
The Guardian: »Denis Healey, Labour ex-Foreign Secretary: “[…] The really criminal thing was that they wouldn’t let Blix go back. Here is a man of outstanding ability and honesty. I think this will be very damaging in Britain. Unfortunately, less so in America where the public doesn’t care as much.”«
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Lufthansa to offer broadband on board all long range flights
Lufthansa seems to be the first Airline worldwide offering a broadband access to the Internet (incl. wireless LAN) on all long range flights.
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Tinderboxing at Engelbart
Gordon Meyer had a good experience with Tinderbox while listening to a talk to Douglas Engelbart. If only Tinderbox would have more scripting-power it would be a superb tool for live-blogging.
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Discussion and Citation in the Blogosphere…
»I’ve been working in similar directions as this – in an attempt to resolve the questions, “Can you have good discussion across the blogosphere?”, “What is the nature of that discussion?” and “How does it differ from message-board conversation?”. And I think the answer lies – yet again – in going back to the beginning…
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Using Weblogs to Manage IT Organizations
Phillip Windley has collected some thoughts in preparation of the panel he will moderate: »I’ve been asked to moderate a panel on using weblogs in IT organizations at the upcoming Weblog Business Strategies conference in Boston (June 9-10). I’ve been mulling this topic over and trying to come up with questions and discussion topics for…
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Read it to Me
»Read it to Me creates a playlist of MP3 files in iTunes from your unread items in NetNewsWire using Apple’s Text-to-Speech that you can sync to your iPod.« [inessential.com]
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Blogs & Boards
»Tom Coates’ delightfully thoughtful piece Discussion and Citation in the Blogosphere differentiates weblogs and discussion boards. He illustrates how weblogs generate better discussion by helping hide bad content and making it easier to find the good content.« [Corante: Social Software]
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Shape of a Blogologue
In this article, Microdoc News takes the example of a short 7 day blogologue (collectively written blog story) that is branded by the word googlewashed.