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  • I asked Google Bard to explain…

    Google Bard helps folks understand how all social media and tech companies get SO VERY MUCH free labor from all those who use it. Continue reading

    I asked Google Bard to explain…

  • Back to beginnings

    Sometimes, it is better to junk some efforts with which you have been engaged than to continue their upkeep while simultaneously wasting your time. Social media was this for me. I was big proponent way back in 2008-2010. I saw… Continue reading

    Back to beginnings

  • Santos and the Millienial Cultural Capitalist

    We are seeing the culmination of Neoliberalism’s Society of Control as more people turn to accumulating cultural capital as a means of increasing power which includes wealth rather than gaining wealth that generates power Continue reading

    Santos and the Millienial Cultural Capitalist

  • All about the clicks for cash

    Thanks to my friend Adam Briggle for pointing out this article. This gets at much more of what is going on in the society of control. Donald the Trumpeter is an outward effect of this kind of networking–a body making sounds… Continue reading

  • Why are the most important people in media reading The Awl?

    All swept along by algorithms of persistent evolution. A nice companion piece to the blog entry from Philosophical Disquisitions on the import–philosophically and sociologically–for thinking the importance of algorithms in our lives… But Herrman and Buchanan are wary of the distorting… Continue reading

  • Women in India Aren’t Safe on Twitter Either — Matter — Medium

    In addition to harassing women simply because they are women with opinions that differ to their own, some of these men have also imported India’s fault lines of caste and communalism onto social media. They attack women who belong to… Continue reading

    Women in India Aren’t Safe on Twitter Either — Matter — Medium

  • ▶ Is Facebook Changing Our Identity? | Idea Channel | PBS Digital Studios – YouTube

    For me, the most interesting issue here is my Facebook, my Twitter, my Youtube and my blogging alter the people who would be in the 100-200 folks that I am capable of knowing and interacting with regularly throughout life. As noted… Continue reading

    ▶ Is Facebook Changing Our Identity? | Idea Channel | PBS Digital Studios – YouTube

  • It is a challenge, not only for the leader but for anyone of us trying to work through the loving struggle of being with others. Related articles Familiarity Breeds Contempt (amuseless.wordpress.com) Vulnerability: Bane or Blessing? (whisperbreath.wordpress.com) 11 Ways To Decrease… Continue reading

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  • Originally posted on The MOOC Experience: Social media and digital learning environments are now combined. As part of the MOOC experience, students are requested to join debates and course’s topics on social networks, such as Facebook, Twitter or Google +.… Continue reading

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  • MOOCmania | DMLcentral

    This is connected learning: the connection between ideas and the materialization of things, between people collaborating to learn and do and make things together, between mind and machine, curiosity and capacity, anywhere and anytime learning and effecting, between the world… Continue reading

  • Modern Mythology: The Internet and Counterculture (Acidexia Intro)

    As all the chatter about the “2012 end of the world” dissolves back into the white noise from whence it came, we are still presented a unique vantage point. We can look at once backward and forward on cultural trends,… Continue reading

  • The World Is Not Enough: Google and the Future of Augmented Reality – Alexis C. Madrigal – The Atlantic

    The ongoing struggles with encoding the Book of Life. It is The Future. You wake up at dawn and fumble on the bedstand for your (Google) Glass. Peering out at the world through transparent screens, what do you see?  If… Continue reading