Bulk Open Attribution Tool (BOAT) 1.0 (now 1.4)

Detail of some medieval illustrated manuscript marginalia of four rats holding oars in an open wooden boat resting on some water on top of some page ornamentation.

When you are sharing your own creations openly or looking to credit other open works properly and want to create good licensing or attribution statements, you might already use the Creative Commons License Chooser. Especially when you need help choosing the right terms to match your open sharing goals, the CC Chooser can help you … Read more

Welcome to the #AInthropocene

A giant robotic limb made of crumbling stone dominates the left side of an image, while in the background, a shadowy human figure standing facing away in rocky landscape, looks out on a moon or asteroid caught hurtling over distant light blue water.

Inspired while reading Tressie McMillan Cottom’s 20 Dec 2022 NY Times post, “Human This Christmas“, I tweeted about the “AInthropocene”, which I thought would be an already existent portmanteau word that combines the idea of the Anthropocene geologic age with the “AI” abbreviation for artificial intelligence — putting the “AIn’t” in the Anthropocene if you … Read more

Annotation & EDU Trends

A bunch of tree swallows lined up on tree branches trying to stay warm in a snowstorm.

Intro

This post expands on a Twitter thread of mine that tried to lay out a concise argument that collaborative, digital, interoperable annotation can play a key role in the major strategies that higher education is using to meet the significant challenges it faces today.

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Mothering Digital

A black and white screengrab from the recording of Douglas Engelbart giving the "Mother of All Demos" in 1968.

Today folks are gathered at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Mother of All Demos (“MOAD”). Held in 1968 in San Francisco’s Civic Auditorium, SRI’s Douglas Engelbart and others demonstrated networked computer systems they were developing, including the mouse, hypertext, and real-time collaborative editing. The MOAD has become a notorious event in computer and internet history, both presaging and shaping the digital technology environment we live in now.

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