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Category Archives: Humanizing Technology
For Better Content, Go Local
There has been a lot of talk lately about the quality of information available online. The debate has centered around “content farms”, such as Demand Media and the current incarnation of AOL (oops, sorry, Aol.). Kicking off this round was Michael Arrington, who wrote in a post titled The End of Hand Crafted Content:
On one [...]
Posted in Humanizing Technology Tagged AOL, content farm, Demand Media, Doc Searls, hyperlocal, Jeff Jarvis, Michael Arrington 3 Comments
Who cares about your project?
I recently spent two days in a grant proposal writing workshop with Harvey Chess, of The FTF Group. Harvey is very well known in the non-profit community around California and now I can see why. I gained an appreciation of the granting process that I never had before, partly because I had no particular need [...]
Teaching Digital Literacy
The Scottish Executive, in 2001, defined adult literacy as, “The ability to read and write and use numeracy to handle information, to express ideas and opinions, to make decisions and solve problems, as family members, workers, citizens and lifelong learners.”
Pete Ashton writes on his blog ASH-10:
Digital literacy means being able to take digital stuff [and] [...]
Posted in Humanizing Technology Tagged browser, cloud computing, education, hyperlink, literacy Leave a comment
Making it Easy, Making it Hard
So, there I was working happily away when, for no particular reason, the power went out. Feeling very superior for having an uninterruptible power supply, I continued on for a few minutes until it was clear that this wasn’t a momentary blip. I then shut my computer down normally and went to read a book. [...]
Is We Getting Smarter?