And yes, as many in education (and industry and media) recognise, education follows an industrial model all they way up and down - hierarchy of authority, 'subjects' in time slots, scheduled regular h...Read More
This actually comes out of some material I've been reading about innovation, flat work places, and how to design for amplifying ideas. ... You paid what you thought they were worth, and if you made t...Read More
For example, while it is a good idea for people to be able to ask questions, in a lecture scenario of 120 students and 50 minutes the scale doesn't work, there simply isn't the capacity for everyone's...Read More
These will be put up on a page yet to be made and others can see what is being asked, and if they like make something that shows everyone how to do that. Put that in your blog, let me know (in case ...Read More
Those who notice the change then think it doesn't matter (and then it's too late - once upon a time the Saturday Age newspaper was phone book thick - oh, bad example because, um, Sensis, the directory...Read More
James wants more involvement (always good, let's see if we can get it happening), Arthur's essentially a thumbs down (and to be fair, I could have let the question slide, it was one question only, ...Read More
Ditte describes the Danish Janteloven , which is one of ways in which Denmark (and Sweden and Norway) are very unusual, open, and 'flat' societies (income distribution is very even compared to other w...Read More
In other words, if I use some slang term to describe an ethnic group and someone finds it offensive, I cannot claim that I didn't mean anything by it, that some of my best friends are 'x' and they don...Read More
Just a list culled from the earlier post about the Boston Globe sale, Patrick picks this up , wondering specifically about journalism. He also, earlier made some good points about traditional medi...Read More