As we watch the spectacle of the jackasses in the mainstream media blithely continue to pretend to know what they’re talking about after being repeatedly and stunning wrong in the predictions of the U.S. Presidential primary, it’s worthwhile to look in the mirror. Stephen Downes has a good report card up for those of us […]
Gadgets Instead of Portlets?
Via CMSWatch, an interesting facet of the Apache Shindig proposal has surfaced. Shindig is Apache’s server-side container for OpenSocial and OpenSocial, in turn, is (among other things) based on Google Gadgets. Here’s the interesting bit: A social application, in this context, is an application run by a third party provider and embedded in a web […]
Is Obama's Victory Partially Driven by Facebook?
Here’s an interesting tidbit from BlueMassGroup: David reported about a year ago, and again in February, that Obama’s FaceBook organizing efforts dwarfed those of his competitors. I think we can all agree that most FaceBook users are under 44. By May, the largest Obama group on Facebook had 323,899 members, compared with 2,089 for the […]
Patrick Masson in Campus Technology
My buddy Patrick Masson, fellow escapee from the SUNY Learning Network and current CIO of SUNY Delhi, has a great interview in Campus Technology about his first year as a CIO in a small, relatively rural college. As usual, Pat is breathtakingly honest. He’s a model leader. When I was congratulating him on the publication, […]
My Personal Feed
Despite my apparent reputation for being Mr. Hip-to-the-Scene Blogger Dude, I’m not exactly livin’ la Web 2.0 vida loca. I almost never blog about personal details of my life. I have a Facebook account, but I don’t do much with it. I killed my MySpace account after getting creeped out by “friend” invitations from 13-year-old […]
Congrats to the Edublog Award Winners
I’m remiss in not getting this out earlier. Delightfully, I’m completely unfamiliar with most of the award winners. I haven’t had time yet to check out all of these new finds, so if anybody discovers a particularly exciting blog among this group, please let me know.
Desire2Learn Competencies and Rubrics, Part III
Well, I should have learned by now not to promise in advance how many parts a series will have and when I will complete them. It seems that, as soon as I declare publicly what my blogging plans are, Brother Fate smacks me upside the head with his big, fat overcommitment stick. But apparently I’m […]