‘Tis a melancholy experience for anyone who browses through this great medium, to see so much content of low and dubious quality, so much wasted time and energy, so much gaming and spamming and jockeying for attention. A once powerful conduit of ideas and insight, a meeting place of the world’s sharpest minds tackling the [...]
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education,
freedom,
generativity,
learning systems,
overcoming expectations,
satire,
web 3.0
by Brian on 09-02-2007
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I’m using this week’s post to consider how the “six degrees of separation” principle might apply to ideas, the same way that it applies to our social lives. The blogosphere provides a great demonstration of both aspects of the principle: it’s about networking people and ideas. But long before we had blogs we had books. [...]
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disorderly discovery,
idea stories,
information architecture,
learning systems
