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01 Jun 09

Whuffie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Whuffie is the ephemeral, reputation-based currency of Cory Doctorow's science fiction novel, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. This book describes a post-scarcity economy: All the necessities (and most of the luxuries) of life are free for the taking. A person's current Whuffie is instantly viewable to anyone, as everybody has a brain-implant giving them an interface with the Net.

The term has since seen some adoption as a synonym for Social capital, including its use in the title of the Tara Hunt book The Whuffie Factor.

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17 Dec 08

ed4wb » Blog Archive » Insulat-Ed

Insulat-Ed
December 10, 2008 – 7:55 pm

As the scope and quality of learning that can happen outside of institutional groups continues to increase, the educational hegemony of traditional schools continues to decrease. In Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations, Clay Shirky writes, “Now that there is competition to traditional institutional forms for getting things done, those institutions will continue to exist, but their purchase on modern life will weaken as novel alternatives for group action arise.”

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04 Dec 08

My future classroom « Samantha’s Blog

A nice post about a vision of a classroom from a pre-teacher. Amazingly insightful, must be based on her experiences. Authentic and a nice example of 'nextgen' teachers.

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01 May 08

BBC NEWS | Technology | Luminaries look to the future web

Great article on the future of the web from people who predicted it's growth a decade or two ago. Where to they see it heading now. Interesting to compare this to NMCs Horizon Report 2008.

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