Jan
3rd
Tue
3rd
Nov
23rd
Wed
23rd
Why Facebook's Seamless Sharing is Wrong
Facebook recently instituted a new program that makes it easy for 3rd party websites and services to automatically post links about your activity elsewhere back into Facebook and the newsfeeds of your friends. It’s called Seamless Sharing (a.k.a. frictionless sharing) and there’s a big backlash growing about it, reminiscent of the best-known time Facebook tried to do something like this with a program called Beacon. The company has done things like this time and time again.
Critics say that Seamless Sharing is causing over-sharing, violations of privacy, self-censorship with regard to what people read, dilution of value in the Facebook experience and more. CNet’s Molly Wood says it is ruining sharing. I think there’s something more fundamental going on than this - I think this is a violation of the relationship between the web and its users. Facebook is acting like malware.
Oct
6th
Thu
6th
Uncle Albert’s Orgasmic Orchestra
Sep
18th
Sun
18th
Sep
17th
Sat
17th
idea for reforming education
I believe that the single most important idea for reform in K-12 education concerns a change in goal. The goal needs to shift from one of making a system that teaches children a curriculum more efficiently to one of making the system more effective by inspiring lifelong learning in students, so that they are able to have full and productive lives in a rapidly shifting economy. —Steve Denning
(Source: forbes.com, via csessums)
Aug
14th
Sun
14th
Schools of the Future May Not Be Actual Buildings at All
From David Porter:
“The notion that every person learns, retains, applies in the same way at the same rate, no longer holds water. Extending the use of costly school buildings for the community into evenings, weekends and holidays barely scratches the surface. The fundamental question is: does the next decade automatically need new schools? Do students need to be physically present together?”
Aug
7th
Sun
7th
Broadcasting G+ hangouts in YouTube/live
From the Blog Herald
“Google+ is now allowing users of their ten personHangouts video chat program to watch live streaming videos together using popular video streaming service YouTube which is also owned by Google Inc.
Five steps
- Start a Hangouts session in Google+ and invite your contacts to join you.
- In a separate browser tab, go to YouTube.com/Live and select a live stream
- Copy the YouTube video I.D. of the selected live stream. (Just click on the share link below the video. You’ll get to see a link like - http://youtu.be/XXXXXXXX – the cryptic code after the slash is the video I.D.
- Switch back to hangouts, open the video tab and search for the I.D.
- Click play, and you’re all set.”
Jul
26th
Tue
26th
powerful stuff
