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Learning Solutions day 3: Saved the best for the last #LS2011

Challenge to Learn

I got so much information that I’m still processing, I will try to summarize it for you. Some people believed that there is not much new at the horizon and they are a bit worried from all the distraction social media offers, others believed that there will be drastic changes. I believe for myself that social media and web 3.0

Solution 169
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Finders keepers, losers weepers

Clive on Learning

Peter describes himself as an information architect, which cynics (heaven forbid) might describe as a highly impressive rebranding for those formerly known as librarians. The alternative, of course, is a bottom-up effort whereby users apply their own tags to online content, evolving in the process what are now commonly known as folksonomies.

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Folksonomies, memes and misunderstanding

Learning with e's

It all started with a message on Twitter from @stephendale who stated: "A taxonomist: One who organizes information in ways that makes sense to content providers, rather than content users." There always has to be some organisation at an individual level, or there would be no folksonomy at the community level - all would remain chaotic.