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What is Mastodon?
I've had a Mastodon account for three or four years. But, like others I guess, I have never really used it. But now the impending collapse of Twitter - socially ... -
The Hidden Costs of Requiring Accounts
This dilemma has been bugging me for a while. I want access to our communities and tools to be as open as possible but I need to keep out the ... -
Teenagers online in the USA
According to Pew Internet 95% of teenagers in the USA now report they have a smartphone or access to one. These mobile connections are in turn fueling more-persistent online activities: ... -
Trust and Recommender Systems
One of my favourite social network applications (if it can be called that) is Paper.li. Paper.li is not really a social network but an aggregater, running across your twitter contacts ... -
Bye bye "Pontydysgu Studio" - good luck Pontydysgu Ltd & Pontydysgu SL!
Pontydysgu headquarters in Pontypridd, Wales and 'Pontydysgu Studio' as its filial in Bremen - that is how we have experienced it quite a long time. The name "Pontydysgu Studio" was ... -
The Green Slime Neoliberal Lens
Like many of us I guess, I am disillusioned that the rich promise of social networks for informal learning and the sharing of knowledge has been overwhelmed by endless drive ... -
New book: Empowering Change in European Public Employment Services
Readers familiar with European Research projects will know how they work. The projects negotiate with the European Commission a DOW - Description of Work - which details the work to ... -
Online disinhibition and the ethics of researching groups on Facebook
There seems to be a whole spate of papers, blogs and reports published lately around MOOCs, Learning Analytics and the use of Labour Market Information. One possibly reason is that ... -
Reflections on Communities of Practice
Chahira Nouira sent me an email asking if I could make a short podcast around Communities of Practice. " I am writing,” she said "because I thought you might have ... -
Thinking about Practice and Design
Sometimes writing reports for European projects can be a chore. Long, boring and nobody reads them. At the moment I am writing sections for the EmployID project second annual report. ...
