I just watched this talk by Richard Baraniuk (link if embed doesn’t work), about opening up access to educational text and information. One of the most amazing ideas from his talk and the project they’re working on (Connections) is open-sourced text books. The idea is that collaborative text-books, published on-demand could answer more questions and… Read More
Posts Tagged ‘abstract’
Monday, May 19th, 2008 Tags: abstract, Education, ideas, interesting, Richard Baraniuk, Semantic Web, semantics
Category: Semantic Web 4 Comments 
I was listening to one of Stephen Fry‘s ‘podgrams’—”Wallpaper“—in which he briefly touched on the idea that the English tend to classify something as ‘pretentious’ if they don’t understand it. It’s a form of defense of tradition or perspective. Intelligence or flamboyance are marked as a personality flaw; people exhibiting uncomfortable behaviour or traits are… Read More
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008 Tags: abstract, dialogue, ideas, interesting, Jacqui Smith, Stephen Fry, Tony Blair, wine
Category: Uncategorized No Comments
I tend to live in a world of metaphor. It’s not my fault, according to Lakoff and Johnson. We all use metaphor all the time: to construct our thoughts and work out abstract concepts. I’ve been exploring this a bit in the context of the Semantic Web over on Nodalities. Please feel free to have… Read More
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 Tags: abstract, blogging, concepts, conduit metaphor, ideas, me, semantic, Semantic Web
Category: Semantic Web 1Comment
