Flat World Knowledge Progress

Flat World Knowledge, the company I serve as Chief Openness Officer, is making great progress! We released a lengthy press release today full of good news. I include only the first two paragraphs below, which both give a sense of where we’re headed and include an awesome quote from Hooks Johnston of Valhalla Partners: NYACK, … Read more

Open Education Conference 2009!

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

Long Live Folksemantic!

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