Frances Bell’s Blog

Josie Frasers post on online identity really got me thinking yesterday.  Of course the point of her categories model is not whether or not it is ‘right’ but rather how it does or doesn’t help each of us think about our online identities and our lives.  There have been lots of interesting comments to Josie’s [...]

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I listened to part of #learntrends at http://bit.ly/42i7ke but didn’t feel moved to contribute (as corporate education/ training is a little outside my comfort zone).  It was all quite interesting and then someone pointed out that of the circa 100 participants, about 50% were women but the conversation had been male-dominated to that point. Dave [...]

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I have been scratching my head to see why the term Edupunk raises vague and irrational feelings of irritation and suspicion in me.   I love the philosophy of bricolage, workarounds and experimentation that it seems to encompass.  After all the ‘poster boy’ for Edupunk, Jim Groom, has been blogging his experiments and thoughts on BuddyPress [...]

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 Nicholas Carr identifies Baudrillard as a prophet of ‘twitterification’.  He says “Those that know the technology cannot see beyond it, and those that don’t know the technology cannot see into it. Both end up trafficking in absurdity. ” and goes on to quote Baudrillard’s eerily prophetic words from 1999 (collected in the book The Vital [...]

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As I pledged that I would and to mark Ada Lovelace Day, I am blogging two women who excel in technology and can provide role models for women in  technology.  Naturally their achievements intersect with my own interests and concerns but are also applicable to many women in technology.  They have in common that they [...]

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