3 month ago
Linkorama : Fight for the Life Of the Mind - Like most clichés, it contains a grain of truth but greatly exaggerates the case. Above all, it fails to make the crucial distinction between actual knowledge (i.e. rationally justified true belief) and purported knowledge.
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5 month ago
Linkorama : Vygotsky's Theories - "Every function in the child's cultural development appears twice: first, on the social level, and later, on the individual level; first, between people (interpsychological) and then inside the child (intrapsychological). This applies equally to volu
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Linkorama : Edge: SOCIAL NETWORKS ARE LIKE THE EYE - It is customary to think about fashions in things like clothes or music as spreading in a social network. But it turns out that all kinds of things, many of them quite unexpected, can flow through social networks, and this process obeys certain rules we a
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6 month ago
Linkorama : How Google, Wikipedia Have Changed Our Lives -- For Better and Worse | PBS - And that’s the trade-off: What you gain in speed of delivery you often lose in quality of information, not to mention the most intangible benefit of the way we used to get information: seeking it out slowly, wondering, theorizing, discovering and feelin
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10 month ago
wearehugh : Lamby’s Blog » Blog Archive » Missing notes in the Mozart’s «Dissonance» quartet K. 465?
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29 month ago
Linkorama : super publics - danah is really talking about constituencies when you have easy group forming
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32 month ago
Linkorama : Decentralized Gridiron - Granted that Peters does have a predisposition for hyperbole, I think he's on to something this time and I would second his advice to "read every damn word in the article."
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32 month ago
Linkorama : Typology of Social Networks - From the machine, organization and meme points of view
jkottke : Toward a typological view of social networks - Toward a typological view of social networks.
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32 month ago
Linkorama : Process, Work Practices & Social Software - I disagree and believe the topic would have been better served by framing it as a process vs. work practice debate.
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33 month ago
Linkorama : The Backlash to Process - Process is an abstract structure for how work should ideally be done; practice is the day-to-day way in which work is actually done. Process involves respect for methods, measures, and organizational attempts at improvement; practice involves respect for
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34 month ago
kellan : MySpace hacked: Viral vectors mutating and spreading among previously unaffectable communities. - First Warcraft and now MySpace. Apparently all social ventures are susceptible to viruses. (Is that a new law?) #
deusx : MySpace hacked: Samy is my Hero : www.Fast.info/myspace - "clever bit of viral javascript imbedded into his myspace page"
Milo Vermeulen : A Friendly MySpace Hack [via]
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37 month ago
cameron : Computer science is really a social science - This argument could be a lot stronger
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37 month ago
Linkorama : Lean Consumption - Consumption is a process, not an event
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39 month ago
plasticbag : 4815162342 - "Lost" Numbers Reference Guide - A big page collating the incidence of the important numbers in the awesome TV series "Lost"
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Richard MacManus : The risk of techno-orientalism - Asia is leading the new wireless world, but there are many different Asian cultures.
cobra libre : the risk of techno-orientalism - i like this, though i wish it had been fleshed out
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50 month ago
cobra libre : a straussian memory - straussian esotericism is like gnosticism for philosopher assholes, well, maybe
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