Today, through FriendFeed, I came across this interesting piece by Alan Cann Leveraging FriendFeed for authentic science education. Excerpt:
"Using the Facebook paradigm, they will create a Friendfeed account, subscribe to RSS feeds, bookmark and share items and build a network. We will use FriendFeed as a feedback channel to guide them. Assuming FriendFeed is still around, this should work much better than our past approach to building a PLE. (They'll also use other tools, but their PLE will be based around FriendFeed, which will be the main communication channel, vertically and horizontally)."
Alan's "assuming FriendFeed is still around" comment stems partly from the fact that just after I started to use it, FriendFeed was acquired by Facebook. Who knows what Facebook's plans are for the product.......
Making money from free digital content - Cory Doctorow experiments
I've had a soft spot for Cory Doctorow because of his wonderful 2001 diatribe Metacrap: Putting the torch to seven straw-men of the meta-utopia. With a Little Help is a print-on-demand book of short stories by Cory Doctorow that explores - in the manner of its publication - several different "freemium" models for turning a free, digital object into profitable and physical objects. Cory explains - in his column in Publishers Weekly, and on his blog.
Related: 7 May 2007 piece in Fortnightly Mailing.
Posted on 21/10/2009 in News and comment | Permalink | Comments (0)
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