In 2015, a couple of years after entering LibraryLand, I applied and became a board member at one of my favourite network activist groups, Open Media. Last week, just shy of three years later, I stepped down from the board. It has been a great learning experience for me. While I have worked as a […]
If you’re from the edtech world I assume you’ll know of the great work of old friends Alan Levin and Brian Lamb (and others, ommissions solely out of ignorance) on the idea of SPLOTs, possibly standing for “Smallest Possible Learning Online Tool.” How that idea/approach came to be is surely a long story. I can’t […]
It’s not really news that in 2017, twitter has become a bit of a dumpster fire. Between the trolls, the bots, the constant blare of American “politics” and the nazis, its pretty hard to bear. Yet bear it I still do, because so far none of my attempts to foment large-scale movement to an alternative […]
(Who knows if this will be come a regular thing, but hey, whatever it takes to get me writing again.) Last month I attended a meeting of the Communications Infrastructure Committee of BC, a “collaborative body composed of representatives from any organizations with an interest in deploying or using communications network infrastructure in the province […]
I had the pleasure of presenting to a gathering of library-types at the wonderful Vancouver Island Library Staff Conference today. Time did not actually permit to throw an actual CryptoParty, which would have been ideal, but I’m still hoping I may have sparked a few folks to try one at their own library and start […]
