Help! Think back to beginner’s mind: what do you consider the best one or two items, readings, or sites to help someone new understand the idea and ethos of open education/open teaching and learning?
Category: Geekery
ROI is a result of scale, which make bot spamming far less attractive on a platform like Medium. Where is evidence that the failure is due to poor design decisions rather than similar design decisions that are failing due to scale? What decisions, specifically?
Wow, that is sweet. As usual, you (and @ChrisAldrich) are way ahead of me in all things interesting!
Downes 🍁 (mastodon.social)@fncll At a technical level, a lot of it makes a lot of sense. A simple example: content addressability. Elements of this are already in use - at the core of GitHub, in content distribution networks, etc. But individual browsers still locate content by address, instead of content. So we're always lo...
I’m not ignorant of the technology. But “until we get a naming system” is doing a lot of work here on the human side where using terms like this really matter (and to whom the hype is being directed as a sales pitch). There have been, and will be, scores of technical revolutions within each time given an epochal title.
Chris Aldrich (boffosocko.com)Anyone who knows me knows that I love Hypothes.is for all my online highlighting, annotating, and general note taking. They also know that if one isn’t actively using their notes to some better end, then it’s likely not worth having taken them at all, so I store mine in markdown in Obsidian for ...
I assume you’ve seen this, but for fellow newbie IndieWeb wanderers, the Obsidian Hypothes.is plugin works well too. It uses built-in (Nunjuck) templating rather than Templater.
@MacSparky In MPU 633 (https://www.relay.fm/mpu/633) you seemed to have some Notion alternatives in mind, cautioning your guest to look around before committing, but didn’t give any specifics. Any suggestions of apps we should look at when evaluating?
