Participatory Governance and the Fediverse
Image: Heise Magazine Today Alex Tarkowski launched a 24-part Twitter thread into the digisphere expanding on his views about participatory governance and fediverse. It builds on his article Priorities to…
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The Conference Board’s 0-4 on Innovation Policy
The Conference Board of Canada makes four recommendations for innovation in Canada. It’s based on a self-styled ‘report card’ that ranks Canada as a ‘C’ on innovation (the U.S. and…
Introduction to the Duty of Care
Here is a section from my book-in-progress (which may never be completed, but I continue to toil away). Please read it keeping the following in mind: – It should be…
Mastodon Reflections
These are some posts collected from my Mastodon postings which together sort of form a coherent picture of the fediverse. Sort of. So much fun watching tech people pour in…
The Socialist Case for Blockchain
Doug Belshaw points to a recent article in the Jacoban in the form of a review of Vitalik Buterin’s Proof of Stake: The Making of Ethereum and the Philosophy of…
Camping and Biking Anticosti Island – A Guide
Anticosti Island is a large but mostly uninhabited island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Covered with subarctic pine and spruce forest, inhabited by hundreds of thousands of deer, and…
Top Tools for Learning 2022
It’s that time of the year again when educators and developers send their list of top tools to Jane Hart. You can see my full list of web-based tools and…
Future of the Metaverse
My contribution to a report by Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center and Pew Research, The Future of the Metaverse. Opportunities for fraud and scams will abound. As well, there…
Running Mojolicious in a Docker Container
Mojolicious is a real-time Perl-based web framework that can be used for writing modern web applications. Today in an episode of Stephen Follows Instructions I took it out for a…
Install Perlbrew in Ubuntu Image in Docker Desktop
Documenting this because the instructions on the Perlbrew website completely failed for me. I got various errors, including an error 5888 when I tried to run perlbrew. I started with…
Vincens Vives Interview
I was recently interviewed for the Vincens Vives blog (in Spanish). Below is the full-length set of answers I sent, in English, to the questions I was posed. In recent…
Language is a Physical Construct
Capturing a short tweet threat for posterity, because it will just disappear in Twitter. Language is a physical construct; it exists in the world, not the mind. We contribute to…
AISEO Paraphraser Result
I wrote an article yesterday. It was a political article, but what I said isn’t the point here. This post reports on my use of the article to test the…
Keys to a Professional Learning Community: My Own List
I said on a recent post that “Alexandra Minhai says successful professional learning communities depend on four factors: being a safe space, validation by peers, crowdsourcing ideas, and accountability. If…
We Should Decolonize Names
Over the years I’ve had occasion to collect names any number of times. The standard way to do this is with an online form. You then store the names in…
The Cognitive Level
Image: © pkab.wordpress.com. Tony Bates has offered a preliminary critique of my paper on connectivism. He suggests that, in the words of Ebbinghaus, “What is true is alas not new,…
A Better World Online
Asked to ‘imagine a better world online,’ experts hope for an immersive digital environment that promotes fact-based knowledge, protects individuals’ rights, empowers diversity and provides tools for breakthroughs and collaborations…
What’s Wrong to Me
I have a political blog, Leftish, where you’re get an idea of my sense of right and wrong on a range of political issues. But I want to take a…
Looking Forward
Following Ben Werdmüller and Laura Ritchie, two members of a small eclectic Mastodon community I belong to, I am using the turn of the calendar to look forward and not…
Taylor’s Masterpiece
Taylor Swift first came to my attention in 2008 with the song ‘Love Story‘, an adaptation of the story of Romeo and Juliet from her second album Fearless. What caught…