With more than a week between us and the recent Free Culture Research Conference (#FCRC) in Berlin, it’s time to stop “recovering” and finally write up some reflections and feedback for this really fun event. Firstly, so many people helped make this conference a reality.…
I’ve been thinking recently about my pledge to learn a new language every decade. Time is ticking on my next one, Arabic, and although I’ve done a few introductory courses and can manage a few sentences, I’ve got a long way to go before properly…
A Eulogy to Authorship, my abecedary attempt at lit-art, is now published the magazine Pulse Berlin. The piece is a light-hearted “plagiarism” from over 50 attributed sources. Pretty much each line was borrow or straight copied from someone else in a collage to prove the…
Clay Shirky sends a provoking line about “first blushes” with new technology, where early adopters are quick to bubble and proclaim the dawn of a new era. [See: index cards, the telegraph, airplanes, or even the Internet.] Shirky makes the point that a fair number…
Mark Surman posted a neat article about the rise of video tutorials and how they’re changing learning online. Today, educational videos aren’t just streams of professors droning at their chalkboards or science-y rap videos…(ok, well there are those). It’s also about a kid turning on…