For the last ten years, Creative Commons has bee offering content creators ways to share their works. Now it wants to let them know who’s been using their stuff. See article at GigaOm here.
Category: Digital Literacy
“Whether you want to devise a tagline for a client or solve a scheduling problem, creativity give you an undeniable edge.” Creativity is becoming a 21st century skill we all need to know – more of article here at Mashable. .
“One recent study on social media revealed that the average user has two social media accounts. While some users find pleasure in multiple networks, there are people who have found a single community they love and stick with, even when the temptations of a new social network arise.” Good article as we are all overwhelmed – at Mashable.
Impressive. Someone stayed away from the Internet for a year. When she comes back she can’t stay away. Fun to read on The Verge.
“Whew! What a week.
First came Monday, and then Tuesday, and then there was the internet. You know how in Star Trek when they engage the warp engines and the Enterprise kind of stalls for a moment while its projection blurs toward the future, toward the stars, and then it’s gone? I’m in the blur phase.
I feel severely disoriented, totally overwhelmed, and kind of… happy about it?
At 12:00AM on Wednesday, May 1st, I rejoined the internet. I guess I thought I’d just start using the internet again, see some funny cat videos, and that would be that. Instead, I almost had a panic attack as I attempted to pull off basic 21st-century maneuvers like managing multiple tabs in a single browser window.”
“Morozov rejects the idea that “technology can make us better,” and he rails against “technological solutionism,” defined here as “recasting all complex social situations either as neatly defined problems with definitive, computable solutions or as transparent and self-evident processes that can be easily optimized” through algorithms or other digital fixes. These include, among other things, efforts to improve politics and elections through digital transparency, efforts to shore up the publishing business via crowdsourcing, and the use of various self-tracking technologies to monitor and improve our personal health.”
It’s an – interesting – point of view. To read the full review of the book quoted, see the article here at reason.com.
Workplace Learning in the Digital Age 