I just reached 5130 words on a blog post… a little to long to still qualify as a “blog post,” methinks. It’s an essay really, but still long enough I should explain. When I’m writing an essay, I often start adding a sentence or a paragraph in the middle or close to the start, and [...]
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artificial intelligence,
blogging,
brainstorming,
essays,
ideas,
semantic web,
writing
Jotted this down just before falling asleep last night: As opposed to someone who thinks along conventional lines, someone who is genuinely creative constantly and actively looks for potential complementarity in everyone they meet — not just asking “who is this person and “what have they done,” but digging deeper to ask “what potential is there [...]
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complementarity,
creativity,
originality,
relationships,
teamwork,
work
There’s no way to avoid the reality that strikes will make people upset, but maybe we can do more to avoid them altogether. That suggestion was made by Larry Cornies in great column in Saturday’s London Free Press, arguing we’re overdue to consider the damage caused by strikes and lockouts, time to think more imaginatively about [...]
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government,
labour,
london transit,
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negotiation,
open government,
openness,
politics,
society change,
strikes,
transparency,
unions,
work
Reflecting on last weekend’s talk on creativity I worried that probably emphasized the “open” aspect of the creative cycle at the expense of the “closed” aspect. My gist seemed to be, “Don’t worry about anything… try everything, and fantastic creations will magically appear.” Given the circumstances, I’m happy I erred that way rather than the other. We [...]
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electricity,
epistemology,
evolution,
generativity,
history,
paradigms,
poetry,
pragmatism,
progress,
revolutions,
social media,
theory,
think21st,
thomas kuhn
Here’s Chris Brogan’s talk on serendipity at last week’s Web 2.0 Expo, here’s my earlier one relating to generativity, and here’s one of the best examples I’ve seen of serendipity & generativity in action on Twitter: No, they’re not on the same list, nor are Jeff Jarvis and The Clever Sheep ever normally in the same [...]
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edupunk,
generativity,
heuristics,
process,
publishing,
serendipity,
twitter,
web
Lately I’ve been more inclined towards long-form — both in writing and in reading. I’m back in the rhythm I had in 2007: writing actual essays at a rate of one-per-week. Maybe that’s the last thing people want, but it’s where I perceive a need. It’s also where I’m most likely to add unique value and [...]
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reading,
writing
Late last night I had a serious lapse of faith in social media — as we all must from time to time. We should have serious doubts questions about this stuff… Which is why I chuckle whenever I read editorials merely pointing out “there are hazards” and digitization “isn’t all good” — as if any [...]
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community,
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philosophy,
pragmatism,
social media,
society,
technology,
transparency,
web,
will to believe,
william james
Now that the talk on digital democracy is done I can focus on the one I’m preparing for the SMarts Conference at Museum London this Saturday. I’ve started working on it here (but it may not look much like that when it’s done — specifically I’ve left out the most relevant bits). It’s about how [...]
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self-reference,
smartsldn,
social_media,
ÜberCreativity,
video games
Becoming a subject and future panelist for the UWO Online Journalism class’s EduPunk team has thankfully put my ass into gear. Education strayed off my radar for a bit; but looking back, a lot of what I’ve written is even more consistent with EduPunk than I knew. Sometimes these cut-and-paste sessions make everything more coherent… Creative Learning [...]
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discipline,
edupunk,
learning,
love of learning,
universities
When Larry Cornies tweeted, “Attention, citizen journalists: Grand Theatre (London, Ont.) annual meeting,” for a moment I thought he was talking about an annual meeting of citizen journalists… “Oh?” I thought to myself, “I wonder who put that together?” No… Once I regained my literacy I realized the annual meeting was in fact for The [...]
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community,
engagement,
grand theatre,
non-profits,
participation,
theatre
Selection is a natural; so is categorizing; so is ranking; so is list-making. We owe a lot of great things to the human tendency to rank & classify. We wouldn’t have science (and therefore we wouldn’t have a whole bunch of other things)… Think of biology and chemistry. Unfortunately, it also means discriminating. A list isn’t so much about [...]
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discipline,
expertise,
mastery,
networks,
process,
selection,
signalling,
social media,
storytelling,
systems,
twitter,
twitter lists,
web
