Nonfiction: What Would Google Do?, Jeff Jarvis It’s focused on media but the message is essential for anyone who’s work or life relies on the use of information. Chances are that means you…. It could be called a “new economy” book but it isn’t about the future. It’s about the economy we have now. The [...]
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Last week I was flattered by an invitation to be interviewed about my DIY approach to education. Nicole Veerman, Jim Saunders and Steve Howard from Wayne MacPhail‘s Online Journalism course at UWO went easy on me but I managed to flub most of it anyways. Between that conversation and the interview I had with Thomas Cermak from LondonFuse.ca [...]
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After the Google Wave announcement in May I went in to work all excited to share the awesomeness with my colleagues — one of whom caught me off-guard by asking, “Ok, so what good is that?“ My first thought was, “Hmmm, obviously I didn’t stress how awesome it’s going to be.” Then I realized maybe we’re [...]
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During the weekend I spent some time writing yet another criticism of old media protectionism. I called it, “Because You Wouldn’t Go to a ‘Citizen Prostitute’ for Sex, Would You?”… this is the tame version. What so many protectionists miss is that telling stories and getting to the bottom of things are basic human motives [...]
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Don Tapscott gets things rolling at Edge.org: The old-style lecture, with the professor standing at the podium in front of a large group of students, is still a fixture of university life on many campuses. It’s a model that is teacher-focused, one-way, one-size-fits-all and the student is isolated in the learning process. Yet the students, who [...]
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