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The Swine Flu and the University 2.0
Alberto Bustani, the rector of the campus Monterrey of Tec de Monterrey (full disclosure: he is a facebook friend of mine and I was/am Tec faculty) has just posted on his facebook profile a professionally produced video, where in front … Continue reading
Reflecting Wolfram Alpha
in case you did not have the chance to watch the presentation at the Berkman Center yesterday, Stephan Shankland’s Cnet-article: • Data curation. Wolfram Alpha uses public and licensed proprietary data sources, and the company uses automated processes and human … Continue reading
Search, Discovery, Real-time, and Knowledge-Mining?
For a while, we have been trying to develop a MECE framework to think about how we want to access data in our mediated environments. We started out with search (google), but missed that what was at the tip of … Continue reading
Stepping into the Facebook Stream
as we are constructing new socially mediated worlds by linking our analog lives to digital representations, a re-reading of Heraclite’s Fragment 41 becomes necessary: “You could not step twice into the same river; for other waters are ever flowing on … Continue reading
multi-channel teaching
what if you could get the attention of your students not only in the 1h 30 min of class, but during their idle-time, by twittering, blogging, facebook, etc. The debate in the class room should be more sophisticated (that is … Continue reading
Bread and Games 2.0 (guest article)
This is a guest post by Sebastian Haselbeck. I recently wrote a critical comment on Philipp’s blog entry on a note by Ed Felten. Click here to read the original blog post. It dealt with the understanding of open government … Continue reading
Putting Obama’s Transparency Guidelines to the Test
(written by Emilene Martinez, the National Security Archives, Washington DC and LNS-Guestblogger) I started working at the National Security Archive in 2001 requesting information related to US foreign policy in Latin America to one of the most secretive administrations in … Continue reading
Guestblogging on “Living-Network-Society”
In the upcoming weeks, I will have several guest bloggers participating in the conversation. The all share a fresh perspective and have been involved in the living-network-society experience for the last several years. Some of our select authors are: Emilene, … Continue reading
Winter School Pictures
Below you find some of the pictures from the World 2.0 Winter School (W2W Garmisch). As you can see at least my kids really enjoyed it.
