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Thinking about better mousetraps and the Maker Generation
Do you ever read Make Magazine? If you don’t, you should. You’re missing out. Take this article for example, from the October 2007 issue. A simple, brief piece about using everyday household objects to build non-lethal mousetraps. The article in turn leads to Roger Arquer’s site, who then gives us a taxonomy of humane household-item-based...
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Musing about learning by doing
My thanks to Dominik Hofer for the wonderful photograph shown above Did you ever get the chance to read Blink? In that book, Malcolm Gladwell said something like the following: We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction. Now this is something I’ve believed...
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On the internet, sometimes people *do* know you’re a dog
Yesterday I wrote about the democratisation of production, distribution and consumption of digital information (I still find it extremely hard to use the word “content”, it makes me anything but content). The conclusion I was trying to get to was this: at the rate information was being produced, it would not be possible to curate...
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Thinking about democratised curation
I was invited to participate in a panel at the Google Zeitgeist event in the UK last month; it was a real privilege, it gave me the chance to listen to many good speakers, watch some fascinating demos and meet a whole bunch of people who challenged my thinking. Thank you Google, particularly Nikesh Arora,...
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What we share: Continuing to look at privacy, sideways
We now have a growing and fascinating array of tools with which to share information with others, “social” tools. Having spent some time recently thinking about why we share (posts here and here), I wanted to spend some time sharing my thoughts with you on the topic of what we share; in a few days’...
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