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If u buy it, they will come – Really?

eLearning 24-7

Who are you more likely to trust? And achieve it using Blue Ocean (for example, this is how Apple went when they launched music with the iPod). Or the plant workers themselves – not their manager or someone higher up.” The head of a department, a senior role or someone like you?

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Corporations need to catch up on open content

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

If you want to perform a proper string quartet, they noted, you can’t cut out the cellist nor can you squeeze in more performances by playing the music faster. But that was then — before MP3s and iPods proved just how freely music could flow. I suspect the real issue is lack of trust. It is a bandwidth issue.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Did You Know: knol = a unit of knowledge?

Mark Oehlert

" Hmmm.sounds like an awful lot of trust there. Am I splitting hairs or is ther some significantly different about making a personal decision to trust a company like Google with my email and trusting that same commercial enterprise with what could grow to be a fairly significant sum of knowledge (millions of of KNOLs)?

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Quechup invite? RUN AWAY!!!!!!

Mark Oehlert

which also implicates Rapleaf and UpScoop in some decidedly less nasty but undeniably murky behaviors (They are owned by a company that sells data to marketers), makes me wonder about trust in your social network being a very valuable online commodity. Apple/iPhone/iPod Application Becomes the Platform Arrghh!!! books futures Web 2.0

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Semi-Daily Quote/Lyric/Words of Others

Mark Oehlert

I didn't go to church today, I trust the Lord to understand. We are plainly witnessing a restructuring of the music and newspaper businesses, but their suffering isn’t unique, it’s prophetic."--Clay Apple/iPhone/iPod Application Becomes the Platform Arrghh!!! Clay Shirky My latest additions to del.icio.us

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Lets go ahead and solve the future of publishing right now.

Mark Oehlert

That is also an important facet here - I trust textbooks to be highly authoritative sources of info and want them to be peer-reviewed and professionally edited but we need to keep haing that discussion about the authority of certain texts over others. Apple/iPhone/iPod Application Becomes the Platform Arrghh!!! books futures Web 2.0

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Gadgets, Games and Gizmos: The Blog Book Tour - Week Two

Mark Oehlert

So trust me folks, Ive been through this book with a fine tooth comb and have had great discussions with Karl over it and can heartily recommend it. We are plainly witnessing a restructuring of the music and newspaper businesses, but their suffering isn’t unique, it’s prophetic."--Clay Karl really touched a nerve! books futures Web 2.0

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