Zondag mopperde ik een beetje over de gedeeltelijke nieuwsfeeds van Nederlandse dagbladen. Daar zou ik vandaag bij willen aantekenen dat dit mopperen niet betekent dat ik de kranten daarom maar links laat liggen. Ik ben namelijk dol op kranten en vind het erg belangrijk dat ze blijven voortbestaan. ...

Siftables Music Sequencer from Jeevan Kalanithi on Vimeo. We need to walk away from the pathos of 20th century education’s demise and get every kid a pocket full of siftables. What a wonder it would be if every siftable was interfacing the internet, showing related nodes of science, history, l...

Thanks to Jason for scoring me a ticket to the sold-out preview showing of RiP: A Remix Manifesto, the long-awaited release from Brett Gaylor, germinating and mutating for some time over at http://www.opensourcecinema.org/. It was a fun and stimulating night out. For somebody familiar with the works...

The Best Show on WFMU - 2009 Marathon, originally uploaded by notladj. So it’s something of an annual ritual (see here and here) for Abject Learning to offer its meagre but heartfelt mojo to the WFMU Fundraising Marathon (background here). As I’ve written in the past, the legendary freef...

The image here shows a highly readable text (clearer on the phone than in the photo) of The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe coming through the Safari browser of my iPhone. The text is from the comprehensive and authoritative collection of Poe works at the website of The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Balti...

You can ask the Library of Congress. The LOC Everyday Mysteries service has a page devoted to the question about the strongest human muscle, explaining for starters that there is no one answer because there are three different ways to measure strength. That said, three different types of muscles are...

I've been writing a paper recently (which will appear in the open access journal JIME soon), and one of the things I wanted to do was compare the traffic at educational resource sites, such as MIT's OpenCourseWare and the OU's OpenLearn with a commercial web 2.0 offering, namely Slideshare. Will Woo...

My Point of View article just published by Educational Technology magazine explains the key to SeedMagazine’s lede article on That Voodoo that Scientists Do. After describing a considerable flap that has been going on among neuroscientists about peer review sparked by the early release of a Pe...

Over at the fantastic Indicommons blog there has been a flurry of activity around generating data from the various collections in the Commons on Flickr. Patrick Peccatte initially posted on his blog a set of figures extracted using the Flickr API across the institutions in the Commons. Patrick has r...

The Emanuel Saxe Distinguished Lectures in Accounting, beginning 1973-74 in the Newman Library Digital Collections are a service of Baruch College. Baruch is a major center of thought and teaching in business fields of finance, accounting, and other topics where understanding is urgent today. These ...