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In the whole article, there's one quote from Clive Thompson got my attention, "Twitter is the place where you could be like 'here's my one thought' and then link somewhere. I no longer needed to write a one-paragraph blog post about it, and Twitter scratched that itch and gave it a larger audience than it might have had." While people addict to twitter for fun, the fact is Twitter is actually a very good platform to share and learn knowledge.

OpenEd13 is here! The registration desk opens at 7:00am Wednesday morning, with the opening keynote starting at 9am sharp. See http://openeducation2013.sched.org/ for the complete conference program! We're not live streaming OpenEd13, but all sessions are being recorded and will be posted with 12 hours of their conclusion.

"Social networking sites (e.g. Facebook), microblogging services (e.g. Twitter), and content sharing sites (e.g. YouTube and Flickr) have introduced the opportunity for wide scale, online social participation. Visibility of national and international priorities such as public health, political unrest, disaster relief, and climate change has increased, yet we know little about the benefits and possible costs of engaging in social activism via social media. "

This article reminds me to the activism of a Spanish councellor to promote activism through social net against the independence of Cataluña in Spain: http://www.elmundo.es/cronica/2014/10/12/54390135ca474179608b4571.html

Detailed description and analysis of UBC's Policy 81: Use of Teaching Materials in UBC Credit Courses. Helpful in understanding the challenges of encouraging open education within institutions.

What Forbes has to say about Open Data.