sebpaquet's Comments Feed Feed provided by BackType.com http://www.backtype.com/sebpaquet Wed, 10 Feb 2010 03:04:11 +0000 BackType Feeds Intelligible explanations http://www.backtype.com/sebpaquet/comment/000f4304fd848b2f1808e1936fd7e6e4 I'm confident that you and I will live to see the change happen. The current system is more brittle than it appears.

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]]> Seb Sun, 17 Jan 2010 11:44:45 +0000 Intelligible explanations http://www.backtype.com/sebpaquet/comment/000f4304fd848b2f1808e193bfbfd8b5 "assessment isn't cheap" - so true! This reminds me of a quote attributed to Elbert Hubbard that reads, "There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability."I hadn't yet fully realized how that simple fact critically undermines any attempt to make human ability an objective quantity. Thank you for helping me there!"My dream is that a networked world can furnish us more robust avenues and opportunities for demonstrating and prompting the “going beyond,” if we can free our minds. "I believe this dream is already coming true for those who know where to look. But I don't expect it to come true in academia to any more extent than as a marginal activity. Too much freedom has been sucked out of it by now for that to happen.

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]]> Seb Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:28:39 +0000 hughmcguire.net http://www.backtype.com/sebpaquet/comment/00006bcfc48d37db1808e193ac5fa779 I LOLed.

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]]> Seb Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:20:14 +0000 Radical Abundance http://www.backtype.com/sebpaquet/comment/000063866f9658a01808e193d3c2e6f5 There are an abundance of copying in our culture because there are lots of people who are perfectly happy with copies; most of them also believe in money, which feeds the cycle.

I think the real challenge underlying Doug’s ideas is to grow a culture where creativity is generally sought and valued.

I believe this can be done virally: if each individual who understand the importance of creation began showing appreciation for genuine creators and helping enhance their reputation, this attitude could be expected to propagate out to others.

A dynamic like this is already happening in a subset of the blogosphere, and elsewhere as well.

Once they’ve got enough to eat, creators are free to accept things other than (scarce) global currency as payment. Local currency, attention, and social capital are alternatives. I’d say they are even more satisfying than money, once you’ve tasted them.

I think what each person who is through with artificial scarcity should do is to invest their surplus into these alternatives. For instance, one way of turning global currency into social capital is to buy food and drinks and organize pow-wows.

Should Doug be right and global money be doomed, we would be well-advised to spend it now (and not try to grow it in the same form), before it radically shrinks in value.

(This comment is public domain, BTW.)

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]]> Seb Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:17:15 +0000 Marginal Revolution: Online Education and the Market for Superstar Teachers http://www.backtype.com/sebpaquet/comment/000194d6ee9912c09502a0f1bc0d5cf5 In a blog post a few weeks back, I arrived at a similar "winner-takes-all" conclusion from a different direction: http://openresearch.sebpaquet.net/2009/10/fate-of-incompetent-teacher-in-youtube.html

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]]> Seb Paquet Sat, 12 Dec 2009 19:06:29 +0000 What happens in Sicily stays in Sicily, until I break the code of silence… http://www.backtype.com/sebpaquet/comment/000619b28960d8281808e193363a7e63 What are good places in the world other than Sicily? (I presently live near Montreal.)

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]]> Seb Tue, 01 Dec 2009 05:16:31 +0000 Need Your Feedback on my Triangulating Thinking http://www.backtype.com/sebpaquet/comment/000030ec609b7c571808e1930c7efdb6 Great text, Nancy. I’ve commented on a copy of the text that I put on Google Docs, and that I’ve just shared with you.

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]]> Seb Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:14:12 +0000 Curmudgeons Unite! http://www.backtype.com/sebpaquet/comment/0000608827e9fd341808e193eef87190 I’m curious, which part of SlideShare’s terms do you have a problem with?

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]]> Seb Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:22:04 +0000 My Web World Has Grown http://www.backtype.com/sebpaquet/comment/000001015a87d4671808e1930463e54a IMHO, that was an important post. Will reread.// Voilà un billet important, à mon avis. À relire.

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]]> Seb Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:04:10 +0000 Je passe chez inLibro http://www.backtype.com/sebpaquet/comment/0000fac5ca34582f1808e193568578e5 Mes félicitations!

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]]> Sébastien Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:06:17 +0000 By-pass the WSJ pay wall http://www.backtype.com/sebpaquet/comment/00006262a8e189b11808e19315a7d325 …. and areas where you serve people with deep pockets who won’t look for alternatives because it’s pocket change to them anyhow.

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]]> Seb Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:07:59 +0000 By-pass the WSJ pay wall http://www.backtype.com/sebpaquet/comment/00006262a8e189b11808e193ce57f403 The more I think about it, the more I’m inclined to think that the half-life of most business models will be getting shorter and shorter.

Every time your customers get organized / clued in, you have to invent a new one. In other words, it will be harder and harder to capitalize on inefficiencies over the long term because they will get spotted ever more quickly and you’ll get disrupted.

From this point of view, the best horses to bet on from a business standpoint are those where it will take the public a long time to get untied / get a clue / take the power to change things. Areas like energy, law, medicine, perhaps…

What do you think?

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]]> Seb Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:06:38 +0000 We Suck At Broadband http://www.backtype.com/sebpaquet/comment/000002ae7c04d6491808e193230effbd Ce qui fait le plus mal, c’est qu’on a passé les années 70-80-90 à se péter les bretelles quant à notre leadership en réseaux de télécommunications!

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]]> Seb Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:44:02 +0000 Classrooms are obsolete (and so are teachers) http://www.backtype.com/sebpaquet/comment/000033cb7ee894ef1808e1935768329b Regarding your last point, you might be interested in a blog post I wrote recently on the very near-future impact of YouTube on teachers: http://openresearch.sebpaquet.net/2009/10/fate-of-incompetent-teacher-in-youtube.html

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]]> Seb Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:31:21 +0000 Emergic: Rajesh Jain's Blog http://www.backtype.com/sebpaquet/comment/000031fafc5c884a1808e193bf38b62a Do you have a Twitter account?

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]]> Seb Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:43:28 +0000 El destino de los profesores incompetentes en la era de YouTube http://www.backtype.com/sebpaquet/comment/00032325f4a79a841808e193a2a23cdd (I meant: Good job, or good life in general.)

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]]> Seb Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:03:32 +0000 El destino de los profesores incompetentes en la era de YouTube http://www.backtype.com/sebpaquet/comment/00032325f4a79a841808e1934a75ea63 Las buenas ideas en este blog!

Re: law of two feed, schools can force students to be physically in class, but they can't control what they do. So the student could spend the time doing homework or (if he's sneaky enough) use his mobile device to listen to a good lecture on the same topic the teacher is talking about.

Re: translation - of course the best lectures in any languages need to be translated for the whole world's benefit. Already this has begun on dotsub.com

Re: how many people are at university to learn: a small and declining proportion. I think enrollment will start to go down as people find less and less correlation between university education and having a good job, and more and more correlation between self-organized learning and having a good job.

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]]> Seb Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:02:59 +0000 By-pass the WSJ pay wall http://www.backtype.com/sebpaquet/comment/00006262a8e189b11808e193ee1f88cc Here’s my theory: this is a way for them to get visibility (hence more virality) to people who won’t pay anyways, while collecting a cluelessness tax on current subscribers.

This can only work when the existing subscriber base is majoritarily clueless web-wise, which I surmise is still the case so far for FT and WSJ subscribers.

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]]> Seb Sat, 24 Oct 2009 05:52:02 +0000 Skype Journal http://www.backtype.com/sebpaquet/comment/000030d12cefec091808e193d5e7d82a Is this Skype-centric, or are you thinking about collaboration in general?

This is an ambitious but very worthy research program. Of course it needs to exist.

Off the top of my head, here's a little prior work:

1) Howard Rheingold and others have been working for a while on "a science of cooperation"; see e.g. http://networkedpublics.org/about_netpublics/howard_rheingold_technologies_cooperation

2) Eugene Eric Kim and Blue Oxen Associates started a Collaboration Collaboratory a while back. There was a flurry of activity, but I think it is now dormant.

3) The field of computer-supported collaborative work has been looking at this, but I believe its formative years were the 80s and 90s and I'm unsure how aware it is of what's happening right here, right now.

4) In Omaha there is an Institute for Collaboration Science: http://ics.ist.unomaha.edu/

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]]> Seb Paquet Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:34:14 +0000 I'm looking for a non-affiliated site to be a repository my open courseware. ... http://www.backtype.com/sebpaquet/comment/000194d62abc04b89502a0f19d5f7c1d So, what did you pick?

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]]> Seb Paquet Thu, 15 Oct 2009 03:24:30 +0000 Consultations prébudgétaires du gouvernement du Québec: un pas en avant! http://www.backtype.com/sebpaquet/comment/000030a296f9348f1808e193545e533f Une fois la consultation terminée, il aurait été intéressant de donner accès aux résultats aux citoyens, à tout le moins de façon agrégée. Qu’est-ce qui l’empêche?

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]]> Sébastien Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:59:44 +0000 Twuffer - Schedule Twitter tweets. http://www.backtype.com/sebpaquet/comment/000194d6d3b872f69502a0f1cb9eece4 @GradyBritton designed Twuffer for anyone who has a need to schedule pre-written, post-dated tweets. We bet that you'll invent creative uses for Twuffer. Here are a few off the top of our heads: tweet hourly/daily/monthly announcements appointment/milestone reminders run a time-based scavenger hunt notify subscribers about upcoming podcast or video episodes appear to never sleep

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]]> Seb Paquet Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:15:37 +0000 Thank You, Marion http://www.backtype.com/sebpaquet/comment/000048a22000af321808e19383362dc7 This is very sad. Will the content live on in the mirrors or elsewhere?

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]]> Seb Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:34:54 +0000 I'm looking for a non-affiliated site to be a repository my open courseware. ... http://www.backtype.com/sebpaquet/comment/000194d62abc04b89502a0f18e814ea1 OK, think I hit paydirt. http://wikieducator.org/OER_Handbook/educator_version_one/Find/General_repositories

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]]> Seb Paquet Fri, 04 Sep 2009 12:28:03 +0000 I'm looking for a non-affiliated site to be a repository my open courseware. ... http://www.backtype.com/sebpaquet/comment/000194d62abc04b89502a0f1a1d5169e There might be OpenOCW too - http://openocw.ed.usu.edu/

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