Flickr set from the National Hall for Learning #lwf12 cloud expo
Photos from the gallery and the cloud below
Cloud Expo ideas about technology potential reached the world of learning in a very short time.
#Twinity map issue explained, should have read the blog @CarolynTwinity
I should have checked the blog
It is explained that although Twinity is breaking even there is less finance available so the map data is discontinued for a while. It may come back.
Surely some cities actually welcome the interest generated by Twinity and have some rights to local info? I may try London, could be an election issue. Ken is a bit of a techie in a quiet sort of way.
But now I know what is going on it is ok to work with. A home in Exeter is no harder to find than anywhere else.
Maybe some other source of data would be possible and could be cheaper if linked to other product. I wanted a beach location in the South West of England and the nearest available is in Northampton.
Learning Tech / Skills/ Frontier / Cloud continues, more later; #LT12uk
Am back in Exeter and getting ready for Wild Show on Phonic FM,
Olympia very interesting yesterday. You can get into four spaces on one ticket. The Learning Without Frontiers "festival" is a fringe exhibit to the conference. It is in blow uip yurts sor tof structure and the balcony has been walled off so you can't see the clouds below. You have to go behind the conference space to fins a balcony with view of the cloud show spoace. But you can visit. Ubuntu / Canonical giving away CDs but they charge for support.
Young Rewired State are in a spot quite close to the route from LT . They plan a series of camps in August for coders under 18. Bath or Poole closest to Exeter at the moment.
photos later
Grove Journal now on Scribd #mtw3 #GroveJournal
The first issue of the Grove Journal has been uploaded to Scribd and is available free. Future issues will be by subscription. Articles inlude "Beyond Leaqdership" by John Burgoyne. This can also be regarded as a keynote for the social media phase of Management Theory at Work 3, an update of a conference from 2001. Search LinkedIn groups on "mtw3" or look at the blog
The Grove Volume 1 Number 1 2012 International Journal of Experience and Reflection<script type="text/javascript">(function() { var scribd = document.createElement("script"); scribd.type = "text/javascript"; scribd.async = true; scribd. src="http://www.scribd.com/javascripts/embed_code/inject.js" ; var s = document.getElementsByTagName("script")[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(scribd, s); })();</script>
Is Roy Greenslade thinking about Citizen Journalism? @arusbridger
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2012/jan/24/news-photography-theindependent
Roy Greenslade takes a balanced view. Citizen Journalism a Bad Thing by default? Not when the paper cannot afford any photographs at all.
So when will this be? How much time is left?
Maybe the print journalists will say something polite about citizen journalism soon.
According to the Readers Editor, Monday p25 some readers feel they are "either being pushed towards reading online or subsidising the digital Guardian". Actually I think it is both. Print as cash cow, how little can be spent on it before the subscriptions drop away?
The sad thing is that citizen journalism is the way forward for online news. If the Guardian cannot cope with this then moving online with the old model won't help much.
Cloud for debate at Learning Technologies / Dark Side Critique in new book #winterlude3
Twitter finds a session tomorrow at Learning Technologies about the Cloud. So if I can't get in to the Cloud Expo or can't understand what I find there then at least Olympia 2 will offer some explanation of how this night support learning/
There is a critique of the cloud coming in book form this April, publication on the 27th..
There is a free PDF introducing this from the "Student As Producer" website at Lincoln.
I was at the Experimentality conference and the session that included the Cloud. My own presentation was about Plan-Do-Check/Study-Act so was at the practice end of most discussions. Dean Lockwood quotes from the description of what the Experimentality conference was about-
The idea of experimentation was at the heart of modernity’s promise of human freedom and self-determination. But is the experiment now too complicit with power to act as a carrier of hope?
In many ways it seems to me that the Institute for Advanced Studies continued some of the themes from the first Management at Work Conference. Start with any aspect of modernity and then tend towards theory or critique. Practice has to struggle to survive in this sort of situation. Conferences about the knowledge economy and protection science followed the same pattern. The dark side of modernity interests academics and has to be a part of conferences. But I think it is possible that modernity has some benefits worth considering.
Comment welcome. Not much Twitter from me tomorrow but more later.
Closer Still website found, Olympia is making more sense already #LT12uk
I have discovered that the Learning without frontiers event is now run by Closer Still and they also run the Learning Skills and Technology shows and the Cloud event as well. So maybe it will be just one show really. I thought I had the wrong day or that there was a double booking for the National Hall.
The Cloud one looks a bit techy. Hope there is a simple explanation of the cloud somewhere.
Some of it is a proper conference. I hope to find the "pop-up university" in public space more or less.
Learning Technologies Towards Maturity as in agility and change #LT12uk
The academics who study organisational learning may be at Olympia this week or following Twitter. There is a "pop-up" university in the National Hall, not sure how this works, may require a QR code and device in the balcony.
But mainly the "Towards Maturity" research is about to cross over with mainstream organisational concerns. The technology could relate to agility and change. At least the surveys show this is an aim that is in mind.
So plenty to look out for, even if the results do not arrive all at once.
Graphics copied from a PDF guide to stands of interest
Will it just be Flash for Adobe at Learning Technologies? #LT12uk
It is now very rare for Adobe to turn up at a UK show. No Postscript at IPEX. No Creative Suite at BETT. So where the page layout skills of the future will come from we just don't know. Off the web presumably.
But Adobe has two stands at Learning Technologies, Stand 6 near the entrance and also 113 for Adobe Connect. It used to be Macromedia that had a stand at LEarning Technologies and it always seemed to be more Flash than PDF. I was confused about Connect since around Acrobat 8 when the new features in Acrobat seemed to have nothing to do with PDF. And the features that were already there were not mentioned. So the JDF creation is still not widely known and print workflows still have occasional issues.
However UK bandwidth is now reasonable in some places so video conferencing is possible and worth looking into.
It appears Connect will extend to more devices through Android. This is interesting.
Also converters into HTML5. Only the paranoid survive, tech talk for watching trends.
Miami Dance in #Twinity not so easy but plenty of time till Aretha wedding
It turns out that Aretha's wedding to William Wilkerson may be in the Hamptons and not Miami Beach.
but I like the idea of Miami Beach as in Twinity. Thing with Twinity is that it seems to be mostly about dance music. I think it could be really useful for conferences about fairly serious topics but introducing it is not always easy. Aretha music reaches a wide audience. there is plenty of choice in decades.
So I have bought a small place near Miami Beach, bought a screen and linked to YouTube. Should be Spanish Harlem by Ben E. King. Then the graphics fell over. Something not quite right.
Twinity without maps could make travel faster, CQI to Work Foundation in ten minutes
As mentioned previously Twinity seems unable to offer anything based on maps, just at the moment or rather since about Jan 10th.
So there is scope for just mixing up sites as locations for each other. I had though that the space outside the Work Foundation could be used for meetings. But as it is not available I have been looking at the other places to visit. The "telecafe" is suitably round. There may be an upstairs floor of the Work Foundation that looks much the same even if it is for staff only.
Twinity has not yet reached the CQI even when fully working. It has got to Cursitor Street and this has got seats. But meanwhile we might visit my friend Source Dubious in Fleet Street. The result is to have one space to talk about quality ideas and another to talk about learning organisations and updates on such ideas. I think there is not as much of a gap as sometimes appears. Conversation could continue on a walk along the Strand. Or by other means.
Deming Secrets - flier for event and my own suggestions
I have uploaded a doc to Scribd promoting a day event on Deming Secrets. This is organised by the Deming Special Interest Group of the CQI in London. The aim is to explain the "secrets" - the parts of Deming ideas that are still not well known.
Deming's Secrets Flyer<script type="text/javascript">(function() { var scribd = document.createElement("script"); scribd.type = "text/javascript"; scribd.async = true; scribd. src="http://www.scribd.com/javascripts/embed_code/inject.js" ; var s = document.getElementsByTagName("script")[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(scribd, s); })();</script>
I have two suggestions as "secrets"
1. A lot of the ideas are Japanese, not American. I don't think Deming had exactly the same view throughout his career. Quality circles continue to operate in Asia but not much in USA (or UK). The learning aspects of the Shewart cycle were taken further in Japan as far as I can tell. (This is either a secret or something not many people talk about}
2. "The New Economics" means "The New Economics". There is an explanation of how firms fail in quality theory. I am thinking about Kodak at the moment. The speed of change is sometimes too much for any system. ( I still hope the video cameras survive somehow by the way, love my Zi8} Quality ideas have not been studied much by those academics who only see a series of fads or prescriptions. But unfortunately there are enough examples of companies in trouble to offer some cases.
@twinity #twinity I was just missing out on info for ten days
It turns out that this Twinity issue has been known for a while
Oh dear, in the Second Life Universe it can be suggested that "Twinity is such a poorly-used system that most people wouldn't care about it"
Well ok I don't check it all the time. But it is in my head somehow. It might continue ok with apartments and mythic places and a memory. But I don't see why map makers should object.
Fact. I bought a map of Berlin a couple of years ago before the map was placed in the corner. I also bought a Singapore guidebook. Could there be a sponsor somewhere? Here in the UK I find the Ordnance Survey turn up quite often at trade events. Has anyone explained how virtual worlds could assist sales?
@twinity #twinity Twinity is missing anything to do with a map, why?
This was going to be a day to look at Twinity again. I have caught up with the Saturday Guardian. There will be Olympic Beach Volley Ball on Horseguards Parade. So it won't matter much if Twinity fails to reach Hackney before the end of this year.
So I was going to check out Twinity London for sand. But now I find that all the map related world has vanished. There is still Palmedora Island and Palmedora yacht so I could carry on with a trip to Miami. What I now realise is that any Twinity set can be used to represent some other place. I have to think that way from Exeter UK, probably not top of the list for the next city to model.
If they can model anywhere. There was a strange notice when Twinity loaded. I will try it agin for the next post.
Copied from Tumblr re Why did Guardian trash Talk @arusbridger
Why did they trash Guardian Talk?
Today I bought a Guardian print version. Just as bad as could be. There is much less of it. This after a 20% price rise.
And a lot of it is a promo for the web. Join the important discussion around lost in showbiz?
And then the mention of Tumblr, not just for comment but also for music.
I really don’t understand why they junked the talkboard. Was it just an unfortunate Friday lunchtime? Was there any thought about a strategy? I think it was about ten years with almost no change in the software, no mentions in the print version, and no contributions from Guardian staff.
It could have been a social network from the UK.
It could have been a basis for citizen journalism.
But it was trashed without warning, no chance even for readers to back up their own stuff.
So now it is moving to Tumblr. This will work ok but I can’t see why we need the Guardian in all this.
Tomorrow I guess the book section will still be there. Books are very important, not like sound and video to be tacked on after lost in showbiz.
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most of my posts will continue on Posterous. Tumblr connects with Guardian and also Spacex Gallery in Exeter.
Creative Commons and the Radio 4 Today "Zombie Army" @BBCr4today
I may have been half asleep but I think the Today programme had an item that could have been expanded. There seemed to be just the copyright owners and the zombie army of crazed hackers intent on mischief.
There was no mention I remember for Creative Commons or other discussion around a legal basis for a creative culture suited to the available technology. The most recent BBC reference to Creative Commons I can find is from June last year.
However I noticed that Michael Gove has not only put his BETT speech on YouTube but chosen a Creative Commons licence so it can be remixed. (By the way I think his BETT speech is well worth study to find the bits that are constructive)
I work on the Wild Show at Phonic FM in Exeter. We interviewed Dan Jarvis MP on his regional tour and I asked why he had not chosen Creative Commons on his Flickr account ( sorry about the dreadful lighting)
Later in the Phoenix bar I spoke to Cllr Paul Bull who supported the idea of Creative Commons for content from public figures.
Later I included some clips from the World Service Click program for the purpose of review and comment.
The sound that is not already BBC copyright is Creative Commons so the BBC is welcome to include any of this in a future broadcast.
In my opinion there is not enough discussion on how a collective work process can be supported. For example I don't think the classic form of news reporting can be afforded for most newspapers. The BBC may be an exception. But forms of citizen journalism can also contribute. Creative Commons has a place in this.
Exeter could be a cluster location. There have been three meetings of #likeminds.
Kodak continues as graphics for drupa - Zi8 style video cameras? @KodakCB
From the BBC and Channel 4 I just get the wonderful history and some memories from UK photographers.
From What They Think this morning I get a sponsored video and some commentary from Patrick Henry-
It’s remarkable that reports in the general media—including the numerous stories putting a gratuitous, how-the-mighty-have-fallen spin on the travails of Kodak—have had almost nothing to say about the condition or even the existence of its graphic communications product lines. In fairness, these B-to-B verticals seldom attract much attention beyond the confines the industry to which they’re exclusively marketed. But, the days of graphic communications as Kodak’s best-kept secret probably are over, and this may be the one bright bit of news to emerge from its otherwise sobering Chapter 11 announcement.
You would never know there was such a thing as Kodak graphic communications from UK reports.
By the way, I still think this will be the VIDEO drupa. Companies will go direct to the public via YouTube etc. I expect more publishers to follow whattheythink online only. but probably not till drupa is over.
In the reporting section there is a possible clue about video cameras.
The intellectual property that Kodak intends to sell, Payne said, is entirely on the consumer products side and represents only about 10% of the company’s business. In contrast to this, said Payne, “we will continue to focus on building our patent portfolio in the GCG.”
Could this mean that the future of video cameras will be as part of a phone with Kodak paid for some technology? I really like my Zi8, given to bloggers etc. at IPEX, and I keep looking for a new one with wifi. I don't care how slim it is. I also have a very old Nokia for txt and voice. But that's just me.
As mentioned previously, distribution for Kodak video cameras in Exeter UK is not that visible. If the route is through some other model, any clues welcome.
@CllrPaul4Cowick Can Exeter be a space for Creative Commons content?
Cllr Paul Bull
Hello Paul
I am trying out interviews via Tweet. It may spin off to the Wild Show on Phonic FM. You remember the interview with Dan Jarvis MP and your later comments on Creative Commons in the Phoenix bar. Both are now on YouTube.
Recently I noticed that Michael Gove MP has put his BETT speech on YouTube with a Creatrive Commons licence. Remix is invited and I have tried this out. The online edit works ok.
So Creative Commons for public statements seems to have a future. What about content such as audio and images?
I have also done a YouTube clip partly about a giraffe and RAMM.
There could be more RAMM publicity if there was more content available with a Creative Commons licence. For example a sample of the sound from Ghostwriter. Or a photo of the actual giraffe.
You may have noticed that today there is no Wikipedia, a protest at the current legislation in the USA. Whatever you think about this it is also worth exploring the culture around Creative Commons and how it could devellop further in Exeter and other places.
Any link suggestions welcome
best
Will
@will789gb
@Clive_Chilvers @Meridian_RAW how would Flickr / Creative Commons add to participatory photography?
Clive,
This is a start on an interview by Tweet approach. Tomorrow is the Wild Show on Phonic FM. I never know how much time there will be but I often try to talk about Creative Commons, web policy and soforth. We need a lot of space for music also and can't get too technical.
I realise you work as a professional photographer so copyright is important to protect your income. I can't say there is an obvious business model that fits well with the web as it is developing.
But I would still like to ask you what you think about Creative Commons options on Flickr for example. The Meridian RAW exhibit in the Phoenix bar till the 28th Jan is excellent and shows how photos contribute to participation and communication in groups.
Several photos are also on the website
There is a copyright notice but I suppose copying is possible.
So what difference would there be if a group on Flickr existed? Do social media add much? Have you tried a Creative Commons licence on anything?
How upset would you be if photos were reproduced on a blog?
Any other comments? I notice your tweet about the current legislation issues in the USA.
best
Will
@arusbridger fewer pages maybe less jobs, this is an event compare Haymarket
Yesterday I rashly suggested that print is over. Not so of course but I do think the Guardian now has so few pages that the "digital first" policy should get more attention. As far as I know there was a short explanation on Monday but so far not much reporting.
I missed the announcements in December but now find some through Google blogsearch.
Paid Content suggests there will not be any job losses but there is a different view from the Sports Journalists Association.
They think at least two senior journalists will leave, based on sources close to a seasonal party.
“We were called in to the meetings,” one staff member told sportsjournalists.co.uk, “and we were given a very up-beat message about how successful the website is.
“But you couldn’t help to feel very deflated when you came away from the briefing.”
According to a Guardian webpage also from December " The changes are intended to be incremental,"
But there must come a point when the value of the print product is dropping relative to an increasing price so that the difference in circulation can be noticed. This week is a news event I think.
Meanwhile there could be a similar situation at Printweek and Haymarket.
The print version of Printweek has an editorial "Confidence is key to success and Drupa may provide this" but it mentions that "the enthusiasm of IPEX 2010 turned out to be a false dawn". Probably there will be some advertising for Printweek in hard copy in the time to Drupa but it may be a better time to look at print outside of the atmosphere of trade shows.
Issue 2 of Print Power, linked to the Power of Print as featured on Printweek web site, has an ad from Haymarket on page 11. This promotes a sub to Brand Republic website. My guess is that Haymarket will do more online and that some print versions will not be continued.
Reporting in print ought to cover what is going on, not just how print should be or was once.
Then again, often it does. Next Printweek in print will probably include this report
drupa is using augmented reality. The 2012 drupa could be studied for how it is actually promoted.
I still think the cross media event in London should have been last year. So my dates and timing may seem confused.