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Ev Williams is The Forrest Gump of the Internet - The Atlantic - 1 views

  • 85 cents of every new dollar in online advertising went to Google or Facebook in early 2016
  • The developers who wrote Drupal and Wordpress, two important pieces of blogging software, both recently expressed anxiety over the open web’s future. Since so many of these social networks are operated by algorithms, whose machinations are proprietary knowledge, they worry that people are losing any control over what they see when they log on. The once-polyphonic blogosphere, they say, will turn into the web of mass-manufactured schlock.
  • For all the talk of their radical openness, blogs had mostly been the domain of those with hosting space, programming experience, and the time to write them
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  • If your job was to feed people, but you were only measured by the efficiency of calories delivered, you may learn over time that high-calorie, high-processed foods were the most efficient ways to deliver calories,” he says. They would be the most margin-friendly way to deliver calories. But the food still wouldn’t be good—because the original metric didn’t take into account “sustainability, or health, or nourishment, or happiness of the people.”
  • Google and Facebook, just two companies, send more than 80 percent of all traffic to news sites. (No wonder they make 85 cents of every digital-ad dollar.
Jonathan Becker

Opportunities and Predictions, 2014 A.D. - 3 views

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    FWIW, I think Mike Caulfield is one of the brightest and most thoughtful people in higher ed. I like this post very much.
Jonathan Becker

'I Don't Want My Children to Go to College' - Stacia L. Brown - The Atlantic - 0 views

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    Hmmm... "Discussions about the future of education should never undersell the social import of sitting side by side, of holding conversations with students vastly unlike oneself, and of students being able to see their peers respond to their newly acquired insights..."
anonymous

Nice overview of OL issues - 2 views

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    This is old and I certainly don't agree with all of it but I think it's one of the most sober looks at the range of issues VCU needs to consider. Besides, I needed to test out my new group membership here.
Jonathan Becker

retention, research - Jim Julius on Diigo - 1 views

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    I'm using Diigo to bookmark someone's Diigo bookmarks. This might break the Internet...
Jonathan Becker

The MOOC, the Met at the Movies and The Address | Inside Higher Ed - 2 views

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    Fun little mashup activity...
Jonathan Becker

MOOC U: The Revolution Isn't Over - Commentary - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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    " In the news media, MOOCs had gone from being higher education's savior to a bust in a little more than a year."
Jonathan Becker

Connectivist MOOC helps students embrace digital media - 2 views

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    We rock!
Jonathan Becker

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Mr. Potato Head, and the LMS - 0 views

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    "In this "nothing left to take away" version, the LMS becomes the smooth, brown, plastic oval of Mr. Potato Head. All of the traditional "features" of the LMS are independent, swappable components that plug in via LTI - the way Mr. Potato Head's happy eyes are swappable for his angry eyes. Or, if you prefer a more technical analogy, the LMS becomes an operating system like iOS (but hopefully WAY more open) and all previous system features become apps that you can install and uninstall as you will."
Tom Woodward

The Online Photographer: Oops! And, Hmbl. Ed. Needs Advice - 0 views

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    Modeling a number of things in this post that would have strong parallels in faculty/student blogging.
Jonathan Becker

Introducing hypothes.is for Education | Hypothesis - 3 views

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    Annotating the web
Jonathan Becker

Setting the record straight again (sigh) | The President's Corner - 1 views

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    SNHU President Paul Leblanc's response to the Slate piece.
Jonathan Becker

Southern New Hampshire University: How Paul LeBlanc’s tiny school has become a gi... - 0 views

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    How Tiny, Struggling Southern New Hampshire University has become the Amazon of Higher Education http://t.co/a8WbHl8n3K via @slate
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