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Coming soon - Pontydysgu.eu
We are well under way redesigning the Pontydysgu website. It is not so easy. According to the archive the present site was launched in September, 2006. The WordPress site superseded ... -
Proxies, learning, deschooling society and annotation
Sipping a glass of wine on the terrace last night, I thought about writing an article about proxies. I've become a bit obsessed about proxies, ever since looking at the ... -
Living in an Algorithmic World
This video is from Danah Boyd’s opening keynote for the re:publica 18 conference. Although it is an hour long it is well worth watching. Danah says "Algorithmic technologies that rely ... -
Managing meetings
There’s been a bit of a debate in social media on how to run successful meetings. Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon seems to have kicked it off. According to ... -
Peer Production
I don't normally publish new journal releases - there are simply to many. But I very much like the approach of the special issue of the Journal of Peer Production ... -
Demonstrating the Value of Community Development Approaches
This is a video of a conference I spoke at in Dublin in April organised by the Clondalkin Community Alcohol and Drugs Task Force. The conference followed the publication of ... -
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 ... -
Peer production and open peer review
I get a lot of notifications about various journal publications. Most are not particularly interesting and in reality, are what might be called academic spam. But I was interested recently ... -
Crossing Boundaries
I think I have written several times before about the problems with conferences. Too many boring sessions with short presentations featuring long lists of bullet points in PowerPoint. At best ... -
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 ...