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I was interested to see Dorothy’s post about searching (and tagging) On the other hand the same teacher instinct was apalled by how little progress we have made teaching people how to search in a way that will return the information they are seeking. Particularly using appropriate key words to refine our searches. I have been constructing [...] Darrell Hill was an illustrator and worked with the Department of Information in Vietnam in 1967-68. While he served he took thousands of 35mm pictures and slides of what he saw. After leaving Vietnam he had the slides in storage for several years but when he moved on decided to get rid of them. Years later, [...] ”… remember, the brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there [...] This month’s National Geographic features a fascinating article about swarm behaviour and how scientists have been developing computer simulations to look at how complex behaviour patterns can stem from seemingly “simple interactions”. The article moves from apparently unintelligent animals developing a collective intelligence once they are in the group to thinking about how this knowledge [...] The Citizendium is a project that aims to create “a “citizens’ compendium of everything,” is an experimental new wiki project. The project, started by a co-founder of Wikipedia, aims to improve on that model by adding “gentle expert oversight” and requiring contributors to use their real names.” from Citizendium Main Page This is an interesting development [...] For a little while now I’ve been thinking about this whole notion of communities. Over the last week or so my thoughts have started to crystalise into something that I can work with. I wish that I could say that I’ve managed to come to this by myself, but in reality it’s been some really [...] |
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