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Democracy, petitions and agendas
Last Thursday, the British government launched a new e-petitions site to replace the one that used to live at number10.gov.uk. The Guardian‘s report of this was headlined Death penalty could be debated...
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More on epetitions…
UPDATE: The Keep Our NHS Public petition is now live. Please sign and publicise it. A week ago, I posted some comments on the government’s new epetitions system. Among other things, I reflected that no...
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Science Fiction, the long and short of it
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. Antoine de Saint-Exupery I read a passingly large quantity of science fiction, and was musing...
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That’s the wrong apology, Mr. Clegg
Nick Clegg must be making life very hard for political satirists. Of course, it is unusual for a politician to apologise for anything, especially for breaking promises. However, Clegg is not...
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MOOCs and stats, comparing cows and chickens
I’ve recently completed my first MOOC (massively open online course) – an introductory Cryptography course on coursera.org, created by Professor Dan Boneh of Stanford. The course, in general, was...
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Learning on a local and global scale
This is the first week of a new MOOC (Massively Open Online Course) on coursera.org, E-learning and Digital Cultures (edcmooc) organised by the team who run the MSc on E-learning and distance education...
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Libraries and MOOCs
I recently attended Library Camp Sheffield. During a session on developing information literacy, the subject of massively open online courses came up, which set me wondering what opportunities these...
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Learning out of place and time
The tensions in the course have been between technology as dehumanising or allowing us to create a new humanity, visions of futures in which it is used to control us or offers the opportunities of...
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Reversible Easter chick – crochet pattern
My mother sent me a pic, and asked me if I could make some of these for Easter… This is the pattern I’ve come up with – feel free to use and adapt it. I’m already thinking of a few variations (would...
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Theses on Binge Eating
A random assortment of things I have learned in course of the struggle with my inner Cookie Monster.* Don’t “go on a diet”. Eat three good-sized meals a day. Don’t skip breakfast. Or lunch. Eat good...
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