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opencontent The Call for Papers has been announced for Open Ed 2009! After five years in Logan, UT, the conference moves this year to Vancouver! UBC will be our conference host, and Brian Lamb will be our guide. Additional conference sponsors include the BYU McKay School of Education and BCCampus. This year’s conference will run from … Read more
Writing about how folksonomic approaches can combine with semantic web approaches to give us a less-expensive-best-of-both-worlds was some of the more useful stuff I did while at USU working with COSL. As a play on words, I called the resulting applications “folksemantic,” which became an active research line whose work was originally funded by the … Read more
Heard of ThruYou yet? Lessig says, “Watch this, and you’ll understand everything and more than what I try to explain in my book [Remix].” Writing for the Huffington Post, Timothy Karr says, “What ThruYOU tells us is that all bets are off. The DNA of our media system has mutated so completely that it’s only … Read more