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Social media: Prevention is better than cure

E-Learning Provocateur

It’s also the long tail of boring, low profile gripes that fester unanswered. I’ll refer this question to United Airlines… Yep, that little ditty has attracted over 8 million views so far. But it’s not just the clever memes you should worry about. Have you called your own call centre lately?

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Net, blogs and rock 'n' roll

Clive on Learning

As I mentioned last week in So much music, so little time , I've been reading David Jennings' new book Net, Blog and Rock 'n' Roll , a look at "how digital discovery works and what it means for consumers, creators and culture". First of all, let me confess that I'm not particularly qualified to review this book.

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knowledge and Learning In The News - 8/26/2006

Big Dog, Little Dog

Fireside Chat: The Long Tail - Signal vs. Noise. The theory of the Long Tail is that our culture and economy is increasingly shifting away from a focus on a relatively small number of "hits" at the head of the demand curve and toward a huge number of niches in the tail. Music Makes Your Brain Happy - Wired.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Day 4 - Man.Im just getting warmed up! (and a shocker!)

Mark Oehlert

found via an article in the Wall Street Journal) turns out that a Harvard professor has found out that the arguments put forward by WIRED editor Chris Anderson in The Long Tail, might not be exactly spot on. " Elberse writes that "It is therefore highly disputable that much money can be made in the tail. " Geez.

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Hot Topics in eLearning for 2009

eLearning Learning Posts

With all that is going on in terms of long tail learning and the business of learning , not to mention social and informal learning, there’s no surprise that there’s a lot of discussion around changes in design and instructional design as well as lots of discussion about new roles in this new world. Audio (504). May 12, 2009.

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The wonders of community

Jay Cross

For a while, we stood watching three koi in a large plastic tank supposedly interacting with music. On another floor, we twisted a 3′ long rod attached to a chrome globe that was supposed to generate sound and create a 3D image; the screen was dark. And so it went.