December 2008
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Downes Future of Learning - A summary
Last week, in the train, I digested the 40 page report by Stephen Downes on the “Future of Online Learning” (original blog post, download PDF or Word here). He wrote similar report 10 years ago, which you can find here. You can read the index and scroll through the embedded document below. Below it I have pointed out the stuff I find interesting… Downes - Future of Online...
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Attention profiling.... nice discussion about...
Attention profiling is making profiles based on someone’s online activities (comments, blogs, music, bookmarks, etc.). Nowadays, this information is usually not available for the user hem/herself, but stored and analyzed by a private organization who can do whatever it wants to do (like adverstisements: Google). APML is a standard that these websites can implement, making the profiles...
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The value of a rose... rising above objectivism...
A week ago, I wrote a post about an interesting article by Ard Huizing, concerning objectivism in information management. The paper I discuss below is the follow-up of that paper, and treats subjectivism in relation to objectivism. The former paper clearly describes the merits and deficits of an objectivist approach toward information management, using the neoclassical supply/demand model....
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Future of objectivism...
I was reading an interesting article by Ard Huizing yesterday… some quotes below. Beware, these quotes should not always be considered as opinions of the author (or me), sometimes as observations; The only real knowledge is considered to be objective, rational knowledge, for which we need science’s drive towards precision and timeless truths. Science allows us to abstract experiential...
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Who cares about privacy?
Just a suggestion about privacy on the internet. Many people I know, have some sort of objection against a Google or national government storing personal information and mining data about you. I do not. At least, I think you still have to be able to use that data yourself as well, which in many cases is not possible. But on the other hand, I really do not care that they know things about me,...
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Opportunity development process
An image I found in a report of a friend who did an investigation on open innovation. Innovation or creativity can be initiated or improved by using such structured processes.
