Category Archives: Social software

Decentralized, Part 2

Posted on September 7, 2021 by x28

This is a continuation to a previous blog post about decentralization.
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Indieweb frustrations

Posted on February 12, 2021 by x28

After reading Downes’s critique, I understand now that a big part of my problem with IndieWeb is their concept of a post.
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Fear of clicking

Posted on August 28, 2019 by x28

Fifteen years ago today, I started this blog. Much has changed since.
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More online meetings, less short-distance flights

Posted on July 25, 2019 by x28

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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Cogged PLE’s

Posted on September 25, 2010 by x28

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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Comment culture

Posted on February 14, 2010 by x28

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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Peer review before or after publication

Posted on February 3, 2010 by x28

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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Science Blogging

Posted on January 21, 2007 by x28

Not prematurely publishing RESULTS, but collaboratively reflecting the QUESTIONS, might help developping new theories.
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Selling blogs to the non-believers?

Posted on August 26, 2006 by x28

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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Stepchild Annotation

Posted on June 26, 2005 by x28

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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