Digi-learning: maximizing the benefits of social economies

The value of collaborative development is widely acknowledged (see proprietary software development release dates versus those of open source programs – guess which advances more rapidly). How can these proven techniques be leveraged to advance education?  Recent studies by IBM (reign in your scepticism, please) show : “hours spent playing online can hone [...]

Completely Biased SN Recognition Awards 2007

MISU [Most Interesting Sign-up]:  Second Life.  Becoming a resident entails selecting a last name from a provided list.  How about that:  Vonnegut’s Dr. Wilbur Daffodil-11 Swain was on to something.

IFF  [Instant Friend Factor]:  Facebook.  Invitations from fun folk I actually know were waiting for me when I signed up.  MySpace takes a second for creator [...]

User-designated tagging and Libraries

I’m a big fan of social tagging and the fabulously handy results one gets from pairing subscribing to tag streams. Sharing search results amongst others is so simple; no longer do I have to write explanatory emails and address them appropriately for whomever I think might be interested. Instead, tags can help to [...]

Atom, ASF, APP

Here’s a handy piece from Computers in Libraries, April 2007 issue. It’s from an article entitled, “A Dozen Primers on Important Information Standards”.Atom
Just a bit more information to follow up the RSS presentation.
[Atom, ASF, and APP all = Atom syndicatication Format, Atom Publishing Protocol]

RSS (Group Presentation)

What is RSS?
Who is Oprah Winfrey? What is an RSS? Most people know the first answer but have no clue about the second one. Here is an article that explains RSS “the Oprah way”. To make RSS much easier to understand, Oprah [...]