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July 27th, 2010 No Comments

If you have been following this blog, it will no longer be updated. It has bee exported to
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Gramsci and the ‘organic’ philospher

April 3rd, 2010 No Comments

While reading Amartya Sen’s The Idea of Justice, I was pleased to see his references to Gramsci. The passage on all ‘men’ being spontaneous philosophers seems to me to be modestly adapted to all men and women being spontaneous learners. In the following gloss on Gramsci’s idea I will simply substitute ‘learner’ for philosopher.
“It is [...]

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Pinging and private messages in Google Wave

October 26th, 2009 No Comments

When Google first introduced Google Waves to the world it was claimed that the design had been to start from scratch and imagine what it would be like to reinvent email. This strategy is no doubt the reason that the gwave screen looks rather like an early prototype of Google Mail with its areas for contacts, and [...]

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Google Waves – first impressions

October 20th, 2009 No Comments

Like most early comments on Twitter re: Google Waves (henceforth gwave), I have not been finding gwaves particularly intuitive and was not at all clear quite what it might be used for. However, as I am using it more I am getting to like it. My two first waves developed into a mixture introductions and trying things out. I [...]

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ALT-C 2009 “In dreams begins responsibility”

August 28th, 2009 No Comments

Having missed ALT-C 2008 despite it being held at my own University in Leeds, I am particularly looking forward to this year’s conference in Manchester, 8th to 10th September. Following the #altc2009 and #falt09 tags in Twitter, the Friendfeed groups (http://friendfeed.com/altc2009 and http://friendfeed.com/f-alt) and the conference Crowdvine has only sharpened my anticipation.
Looking through the abstracts for [...]

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