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NOTE: The following is the third excerpt from the small contribution I was proud to have made to the “Learning Perspectives 2010” collection put out by The Masie Center in memory and commemoration of Jonathan Kays. (see previous postings for [more...]

NOTE: The following is the second excerpt from the small contribution I was proud to have made to the “Learning Perspectives 2010” collection put out by The Masie Center in memory and commemoration of Jonathan Kays. (see previous postings for [more...]

One of the sadder points of 2010 was the loss of a great learning leader and colleague, Jonathan Kays. For an all too brief time Jonathan was the Chief Learning Officer of the Masie Center’s Learning CONSORTIUM after following a [more...]

NOTE: The following is an excerpt from the small contribution I was proud to have made to the “Learning Perspectives 2010” collection put out by The Masie Center in memory and commemoration of Jonathan Kays. (see previous posting for details). [more...]

The most recent update of Skype for Windows this week (Oct. 15, 2010) added two signifiant features which will be useful for many but I think these are also worth trying out for their potential in learning situations. With this [more...]

Some of you will have heard me going on about how “getting small” is a really BIG deal for over 15 years now. The context is that by making and breaking everything down into the smallest possible units (and not [more...]

A recently funded new company called Sunday Sky is worth keeping an eye on for its potential to augment learning and content. Another one of those simple yet powerful ideas I think and what Sunday Sky does is to automatically [more...]

I do love how serendipity continues to lead me to great and unexpected discoveries and here is but one of the latest examples which I think and hope has some value for you too. As you may know I’ve been [more...]

Maps are such a big part of my life as I experience the world via my sailboat so the TechCrunch posting XKCD Updates Its Map: We No Longer Live In Actual Countries But Digital Ones provided some serious fun for [more...]

* NOTE: I’ve just discovered that due to technical difficulties and user error this article I wrote back in August did not get posted here on OCOT as I had thought. It did make it to my Learnativity blog and [more...]

Several in fact; check out the two videos below from Steven Johnson, consider reading his new book “Where Good Ideas Come From: the Natural History of Innovation” and see if these help you generate more good ideas of your own. [more...]

One of the most useful and powerful browser based utilities I’ve been using for the past year or more and one I really wouldn't want to be without is called Instapaper. If you’ve not had a chance to try this [more...]

Look around you; anything that isn’t made by nature had to be designed and built by we mere humans and what I’ll be referring to here as “things”. The Snowflake Effect is causing dramatic changes in the world of things [more...]

In what has become almost a mantra for me, one of the ways I often synthesize my focus on the Snowflake Effect of mass personalization is getting to “just right”; just the right things for just the right person at [more...]

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A recent posting on TechCrunch "Check-Ins, Geo-Fences, And The Future Of Privacy" had a good summary of the balancing act between privacy and geo-location and worth a quick read. The addition location related information is a key component to the [more...]

Good article in Fast Company on Creating Engaging Spaces for Engaging Ideas that served as a reminder how important environment is to us in augmenting and supporting our learning and living. I’ve come to be totally convinced that we are [more...]

via radar.oreilly.com Well worth watching and reflecting upon. Good notes and comments from Dale Dougherty @dalepd on O'Reilly Radar. IMHO, more examples of the need for and the increasing ways the Snowflake Effect of mass personalization of learning is happening.

You may have read some of my previous postings on prosthetics and how they are being dramatically affected by advancements in 3D scanning and printing. But there is so much more benefits that prosthetics are providing for many other advancements [more...]

My first and still favorite music recommender system, Pandora has been struggling to survive and has had several near death experiences over the past 10 years. So I’ve been delighted to see a flurry of reports in the past few [more...]

In a former lifetime when I was championing metadata and standards around the world one of the most common questions and reasons for doubting this was the future, was that it would be impossible to ever have enough metadata. Where [more...]

In a former lifetime when I was championing metadata and standards around the world one of the most common questions and reasons for doubting this was the future, was that it would be impossible to ever have enough metadata. Where [more...]

Image by gunthert via Flickr Seems like today is filled with examples of science fiction becoming reality and adding to my WITII? list of “What if the Impossible Isn’t?” Below is the latest example of some significant advances in gesture [more...]

In Douglas Adam’s fun look at the future in Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, there is something he called the Babel Fish which was literally a small fish which “when inserted into the ear converted sound waves into brain waves, [more...]

Note: I am much better at starting things than finishing them and have this bad habit with starting postings that never get posted. This one has been sitting in my drafts folder for several months now and long overdue to [more...]