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School Of Everything: Last night at Channel 4 in Horseferry Road, London The School of Everything launched. I’d heard about school of everything from various places over the past year, and gathered the idea is to encourage informal learning about subjects that people wish to learn more about, rather than agendas to promote qualifications and assessment. So [...]
Learning by Doing - interview part 5: Continuing the interview with Cormac Lawler, in which we begin to address the nature of “learning by doing” as it relates to distributed projects, and wiki in particular. Cormac Lawler: About changing of groups’ structure over time, I think my own domain (Wikiversity) is showing an increasingly strong tension along the lines of making Wikiversity a place [...]
August Rain and The Harvest: With the August bank holiday weekend coming up soon, the end of summer looms large ahead and I for one shall be welcoming it with open arms. Just a few years ago at this time of year I would have been sitting in a tent in a field somewhere like North Wales enjoying the [...]
Cormac interview: Wikiversity and Wikipedia: After a bit of a gap, the two-way interview between Cormac Lawler and myself continues. This post continues the discussion about distributed action research and wikiversity from previous episodes: DARnet-interview-part 1 DARnet interview part two Part 3: Questions About Wikiversity Andy Roberts asked: I’d be very interested to hear to what extent parts of Wikiversity have managed to break [...]
Twitter lists gathered on a wiki blog or forum: As the use of twitter continues to spread despite the restricted service and downtime, a commonplace event for communities is to start compiling lists of links to each other’s twitter accounts. These are handy for anybody who hasn’t already built up their network because you can quickly add a bunch of people who are all [...]
London Bloggers new venue, competition and pubs: I’m looking forward to the London Bloggers meetup tonight at a new venue near Blackfriars Bridge. Organiser Andy Bargery says there will be “plenty of space and cracking views over the Thames” which sounds good. With it being a larger venue, I noticed on the meetup site that there are still two places left [...]
Greenwich Naval College: The Naval College Buildings at Greenwich Viewed from Island Gardens at the tip of the Isle of Dogs across the river, because the DLR train service to Cutty Sark was suffering from delays on Sunday. The buildings were designed by Sir Christopher Wren just as he was limbering up to build an even bigger dome [...]
Eurostar Paris trains from London getting busier: I used to wonder what would happen after the Eurostar Paris trains were diverted from the interim Waterloo International station to the new St Pancras and now we are beginning to see the answer. International commuters in their thousands are switching from short haul flights between the two capitals to the fast St Pancras [...]
Google Suggests a pre-emptive text search: A short video to show how Google Suggest works and to imagine how this might change people’s behaviours if it gets deployed as the default search mode. If I’m right and Google are seriously considering releasing this live then how big a change do you think it will mean and what [...]
Wordpress as a Wiki: Wordpress version 2.6 is now out on release and the video below shows some detail of the new revision control which gives authors some of the functionality of a Wiki on top of the most popular blogging platform. From now on, a history of post versions is retained in the [...]
Can you learn how to write lyrics?: Learn how to write lyrics? The story goes like this: I was reading Friendfeed and came across a link to a site about How to write Lyrics and thought to myself “Well that’s a bit presumptuous isn’t it?” On visiting the site I found advice which seemed to recommend ‘tuning in to the music of the [...]
Questions about Wikiversity: This post continues the discussion about distributed action research and wikiversity from DARnet interview part two and DARnet-interview-part 1 with Cormac Lawler Cormac wrote: About changing of groups’ structure over time, I think my own domain (Wikiversity) is showing an increasingly strong tension along the lines of making Wikiversity a place of ‘blue-sky’ or experimental [...]
London Bloggers presentations: London Bloggers This month’s London Bloggers evening meetup organised by Andy Bargery returned to the Coach and Horses with a slightly more formal evening than the usual social event, having four presentations for us to consider. Comment Tag Presented by Xavier Damman. After a good roundup of general strategies for encouraging comment on blogs, the Wordpress plugin CommentTag [...]
What is the Universal Edit Button?: Today the global Wiki community launches a new tool which aims to make editable web pages as recognisable as those with RSS feeds. Called the Universal Edit Button it will appear in bowsers address bars as a green icon with a pencil like this: Does the Universal Web Editing Button matter? According to the The the [...]
DARnet interview part two.: In part one of the DARnet interview, Cormac Lawler asked me, Andy Roberts, about distributed action research, cycles, groups and background. This second episode continues the interview, again with Cormac’s questions in red, followed by my reply. * So, which online university did you attend? What were you studying? The online university was a research project itself [...]
The Homemaker Plate - for Object Wiki: I photographed a mass produced ceramic dinner plate in my possession which is from the the design classic series “The Homemaker” for the Object Wiki, a project from the Science Museum, which aims to collate information from the public on some of the objects from their collections. I like the quirky design for being bold enough [...]
The DARnet interview - Distributed Action Research: This is the first in a series of posts arising from an email exchange interview between myself and and Cormac Lawler. I’ve been interested in Cormac’s work on Wikiversity as a learning community since inception and recently he wrote to me asking to talk about the experience of doing action research online - what [...]
Nurturing Creativity - The Harvest: Featuring a family that’s been in the business for about three centuries, nurturing around 350 a year. Harvest is the start of the process, when they are nice and ripe. There are about 200 creatives in the top field, and maybe 150 in the bottom field. being creative need lots of praise, to massage their egos [...]
Captured on canvas - I?m in a painting from Bastille Day: Thursday is the weekend Yesterday was a Thursday but I decided to declare it a weekend day and take a day off since it the weather looked very promising. We went for a pleasant canalside walk, explored Islington’s Chapel Market, visited the canal museum and had a smashing lunch at the Charles Lamb inn. Bastille Day I [...]
More Friendfeed tips - video 3: Four more tips for getting to grips with FriendFeed In this third video of the series I show four simple techniques for delving further into the productive use of Friendfeed as a social media tool. So this being a Friday, you’re now all set for an exciting weekend experimenting and exploring [...]

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