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Attitude (more)

The EduPunk's Guide To A DIY Credential by Anya Kamenetz (more)

Apple Computer has a new free IBooks-Author app. Seems focused on making pretty IPad EBook-s, but is it EPub? Ugh, Books may only be sold through the iBookstore. We'll see. (more)

The Mozilla Drumbeat group put on a festival/conference in Barcelona Nov3-5. Sounds like a big EduPunk/Open Education thing. (more)

Emlyn Oreagan on the potential for Crowd Sourcing Credential-ing (Reputation Management), and how that adds to the disruption of a College Education. Take a Social Network, or even better a professional network like LinkedIn. Let people just add “qualifications” they have (“skills”? Is there a more appropriate word?). Then, crucially, get others to rate them. To make this work, you need some kind of credibility rating for the raters. Credibility should be domain specific, and also person specific.

It's a floor wax and a dessert topping! (more)

The whacking of SOPA/PIPA has triggered lots of Dialogue. (more)

On 19 January 2012 the United States Department Of Justice seized and shut down the file-hosting site Megaupload.com (Mega Upload) and commenced criminal cases against its owners and others. On 20 January Hong Kong Customs froze more than 300 million Hong Kong dollars (US$39 million) in assets belonging to the company. Acting upon a US Federal prosecutor's request, the New Zealand Police arrested Schmitz and three other Megaupload executives in a leased $30 million luxury mansion at Coatesville near Auckland on Friday, 20 January (NZDT, UTC+13).[36] This was pursuant to a request from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation that the four be extradited. (more)

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Make Magazine from OReilly (aka Make Zine) - for Maker-s (more)

Fred Wilson thinks it's time to consider a Flat Tax. (I hope DisQus can handle the comment load.:))

Word Press is launching an RssAggregator. They'll be supporting RssCloud for Real Time updates. (more)

Venkatesh Rao notes that the Social Network (of Social Capital) has constant churn now - you can never treat anyone as a stranger, because they may not stay that way. This isn’t social mobility. The whole idea of social mobility, at least in the sense of classes as separate, self-contained social worlds, is breaking down. Instead you have context-dependent status churn... Even more unprecedented than status churn is temporal churn... Social situation awareness is not allowed to fade. The active and unstable double-take layer is constantly suggesting opportunities and ideas for deeper interaction... It is increasingly going to be a world of shifting alliances and status relationships within a larger, far more active and unstable layer in a much larger double-take zone. A world where you will never be quite sure where you stand in relation to a large number of potentially important people... I am not certain whether I like or dislike this emerging world. I think I am leaning towards dislike. The slogan, the world is small and life is long describes a tense and anxious world of constant social shadow-boxing. One where you must always be on, socially. A world where burning bridges is more dangerous, and open conflict becomes ever costlier, leading to less dissent and more stupidity. It is a situation of false harmony. One where peace is less an indicator of increasing empathy and human connection, and more an indicator of increasing wariness. (more)

Period of European history covering roughly 400-1400... between Classic Al Civilization and the Renaissance. (more)

The Ny Times' "Public Editor" Arthur Brisband asked whether they should actually Fact Check the statements of "newsmakers". Uh, isn't that pretty much a core part of Journalism? (more)

US Senate member, Presidential Candidates 2008 (more)

in-manuscript book by Michael Strong on Educating Kids and Culture (more)

A piece by Michael Strong ("The Creation of Conscious Culture Through Education-al Innovation") is a candidate to become a Change This manifesto. Please vote for it.

Google launched a "SearchPlusYourWorld" model that combines Social Search and Real Time Search into the rest of your Search Engine results. Google Plus is heavily promoted, while Twitter results are not. Platform War! (more)