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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 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

In this second screencast video about Friendfeed, I talk about the way Friendfeed uses social object theory to add stickiness to imported feeds. There’s also a discussion of Friendfeed rooms, and a reply to Linda Hartley’s question about the first video in this series: Friendfeed for Microblogging. Warning: This screencast is hosted on Google video Blip.TV [...]