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Speculative Annotation
I have been writing about services for annotating online web content and video for at least five years. now. I think of what these services allow users to do as layering – adding annotations of various types on top of … Continue reading
Find a niche and get big fast
The secret of success and longevity among social media wannabees is to find a niche and get big. This approach has proven so successful because of the network effect which explains that the value of a social service increases as … Continue reading
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Why science denial happens
Thel pandemic and recent election processes have been very puzzling for me to process. I struggle to understand how people some of whom I know can possible take the positions that they do. I don’t remember having this frustration in … Continue reading
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Brave Progress
I write about the Brave browser and ecosystem repeatedly because I support the goals of the company – protecting individual privacy AND compensating online content creators. The success of this company depends on public adoption of the chromium browser, content … Continue reading
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Climate change is local
I have been writing about the potential of personal weather stations for collecting data for classroom projects. Data from my own station can be access from these posts. An interesting option for those who have activated an Ambient Weather station … Continue reading
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Layering Biden’s Speech
I write about layering in education a lot. I first learned about this idea when reading about Hypothes.is and how it was used to “annotate the web” before being shaped as a tool for education. Here is another example of … Continue reading