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Happy 50th Birthday, LEGO™ blocks!!
Those who know me, have heard me speak, or have read my writings know that one of my longtime favorite models and metaphors is that of LEGO blocks. ... Read More
Moving aLOM
If you are a regular visitor here at Off Course - On Target, (OCOT) you know that metadata—characteristics that describe anything and everything—has been a major part of my life and a major focus for many years. If you'd like the full story of my initial recognition of metadata and ... Read More
The Lego of Gadgets
How could I not like Rafe Neeleman's recent posting on Webware called "Bug Labs: The Lego of Gadgets"?! Here's so many of my favorite themes all wrapped into ... Read More
Music, Metadata and the “Onomies”
Regular readers and listeners know that I see metadata as an integral component of the future visions for learning, performance, and probably most other things. They also know that I worry that we often suffer from a version of that old story/joke about the man looking for his lost ... Read More
KISS…and Then Tell Me
As I’ll talk about more in my next podcast, our world is changing at unimaginable rates, and these rates are increasing exponentially. One interesting and increasingly problematic aspect of this phenomenon is that many of our units of measure are becoming less useful. They are so small that we have ... Read More
More on Metadata
While catching up with my online reading after a very hectic and productive week in Berlin, I was delighted to find that my posting in October about a keynote I presented on the Future of Metadata and Learning Objects at the International Conference on Digital Archive Technology (ICDAT) in ... Read More
Hot Shanghai is VERY cool in Taipei
To cap off an excellent day of presentations and conversation, my hosts treated me to an evening out in the downtown "cool zone" of Taipei, where the entire city's young ... Read More
The Future of Metadata
My recent presentation at the 2006 International Conference on Digital Archive Technologies (ICDAT 2006) in Taiwan, dealt with the connection between content, competencies, and context, and how these domains are based upon a foundation of supporting metadata. Below is a SlideShare version of the slides I used and if ... Read More
Consensus: How to Create and Maintain a Better World – Part 2
Being good at consensus requires being a great listener. Consensus is also the practice of true semantics, which contrary to popular misconception, is NOT about words but rather, about getting to meaning, as in "I know what you said, but what did you mean?" It's about listening for understanding. One of ... Read More
Consensus: How to Create and Maintain a Better World – Part 1
Last time, I talked about how the RJ-11 plug reminded me about the great thing that standards offer and how the power of consensus makes this all possible. In my experience, consensus seems to be either unknown or misunderstood by most. The Ball Foundation suggests that "Consensus is mutual agreement ... Read More
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