Category Archives: Social software

Fifteen years ago today, I started this blog. Much has changed since.
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What is the obstinate obstacle against some more online meetings? There is a technical callenge: How does a large mural full of post-its fit on a projector?
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Jenny mentioned that the process we worked through for our paper, was not open to all. At least, it can be made a little more transparent here.
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A new German paper “Views on the comment culture of weblogs” finds that the hope for a comment culture, the reflective element of participative learning, has not yet been fulfilled, and that weblogs are rather monological and only few threads are emerging.
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why are Web2.0 affordances not embraced for scholarly communication? A new report from UC Berkeley gives a shattering answer and a discouraging advice to young scholars. Perhaps there is hope that older scholars and elite universities can be more broad-minded?
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Not prematurely publishing RESULTS, but collaboratively reflecting the QUESTIONS, might help developping new theories.
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There is an interesting discussion going on about whether we need a new term for blogs in order to “sell” them to non-believers. I think we should not try to sell them to everybody.
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Annotation is a central topic for shared spaces, but unfortunately it is still a stepchild and suffering from many small silly technical problems.
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Traces of knowledge construction made visible.
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Learning Object Metadata entered by one user type can be leveraged as recommendations for users of similar type (”neigborhood users”).
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