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You can't get a cloud in your hand

Clive on Learning

With iCloud appearing on the horizon, I was reminded yesterday of just how vulnerable you become when you trust all your data to a third party to store for you online. I had links to all my favourite blogs, assorted badges, and code snippets to Google Analytics, Technorati and all sorts of other stuff. I decided not to both.

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Blogging is journalism

Clive on Learning

According to Technorati , only 7.4m I never intended to be a journalist, but I'm happy to have become one, at least on a part-time basis, even though many people trust journalists only slightly more than estate agents and lawyers. However, most of these are inactive. blogs were updated in the last 120 days, 1.5m

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Opening plenary at Online Educa

Jay Cross

User-generated ratings (Technorati). = Takes trust. User-generated content (YouTube). User-generated filters (Digg). User-generated organization (Delicious). User-generated distribution. User-generated commentary (blogs). a new user-generated mediascape. = a social revolution. Papua New Guinea. subsistence based. eat snakes, spiders.

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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. September 04, 2007 in Arrghh!!!

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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.

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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. Karl though, I think got a bit of a surprise from this reviewer. Karl really touched a nerve!

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