I wrote this letter to a colleague this morning.  I don’t know why I don’t embrace the epistolary style more often in writing blog posts. I feel like all my posts are to my few but fine audience.   Jane, I just finished reading an article in Wired about “microcredentialing”. I have always considered ideas like…

Less Data, More Freire. Seek, Make Sense of, and Share with Alison McDowell I love the “responsive activity” (as my buddy @dogtrax calls it) of digital annotation, but I have a big concern with the kinds of writing others choose for us to mark up. It seems to be dominated by the cold fish jargon…

Academic writes 270 Wikipedia pages in a year to get female scientists noticed Jess Wade is a scientist on a mission. She wants every woman who has achieved something impressive in science to get the prominence and recognition they deserve – starting with a Wikipedia entry. “I’ve done about 270 in the past year,” says…