Disqus - Friends of lindyasimus

Re: http://disqus.com/preview/

wwjimd — Sat, 08 May 2010 09:07:32 -0000

Test. From @disqus this time.

Re: Evaluating Blog Comment Systems

wwjimd — Mon, 10 May 2010 04:52:28 -0000

I like that you can choose where to share. Here, twitter, and facebook. On the other hand I like that Intense Debate is open source.

***

Slightly off topic. I notice those green "retweet" buttons everywhere. Is that a plugin? if So what is the name of it?

Re: When do you throw a CEO’s privacy under the bus?

wwjimd — Sun, 30 May 2010 07:12:07 -0000

To be comic, with great power comes great responsibility. Zuckerberg, and other comedia powers, have an accountability to the public in regards to the systems that they control which impact the social networks that operate within their defined rulesets. If you were reporting intimate information that had no relation to the public sphere, such as, a hypothetical example, Mark's difficulties digesting seafood, then, being that it had no impact on the public sphere, your argument would be more sound.

Being that I consider you intelligent enough to recognize these differences in privacy, regarding degrees of power, but choosing to ignore them, I have doubts about your integrity. While, I respect your attempts to save "industry face," I am concerned about your ability to represent consumer interest. I would ask you to be transparent about where your loyalties lie, so we can know whether you are trustworthy, from an every day perspective, or not.

Right now, from my perspective, you are showing up as very sketchy.

Re: When do you throw a CEO’s privacy under the bus?

wwjimd — Sun, 30 May 2010 07:30:28 -0000

I think we should be careful with our "shoulds" when applying them to others.

Re: When do you throw a CEO’s privacy under the bus?

wwjimd — Sun, 30 May 2010 07:39:45 -0000

After reading your replies,I change my mind about my earlier post. I no longer thing you are lacking integrity. Now, I think, unfortunately, that you may be a fool when it comes to both context and journalism. Still, this means, to me, that you are not to be trusted on subjects such as privacy, which, is completely dependent on context and expectation.

The context, of, for example, journalism, is completely different than pillow talk. Do you you really not understand this. I'm trying to give you the benefit of the doubt, but your responses are making a task for me.

Re: Possibilians vs Agnostics

wwjimd — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 02:49:14 -0000

I really like these ideas, however, I'm not sure if this breaks from my understanding of agnosticism.

I am agnostic, not only about religion, but about most of everything. The way I define it has little to do with a lack of certainty between two opposing view. I think this is, to a certain extent, simplistic. Rather, I define agnosticism as holding no beliefs to be absolute or true. Or, perhaps, better, as holding no beliefs. Beliefs being understood as an absolute certainty about a particular idea or set of ideas.

When certainty is stripped from my ideas then I'm left with a set of idea types. Of the types, some of them regard things that one can be more or less certain about. That are more or less probable. Possible.

So, given my particular brand of agnosticism, I've been a possibilian the whole time. I consider this a type of re-branding. And I'm totally ok with that. Anything that brings more light to I-dont-knowism is fine with me.

Re: http://wwjimd.tumblr.com/post/9029115960

wwjimd — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 02:04:23 -0000

Testing comments.

Re: Darpa Wants to Master the Science of Propaganda

wwjimd — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 18:58:05 -0000

Best Line --> “The government is already trying to control the message, so why not have the science to do it in a systematic way?” said the researcher familiar with the project.

Re: Darpa Wants to Master the Science of Propaganda

wwjimd — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 19:01:58 -0000

A series of emails data-mined from DARPA's email servers to prominent politicians:

"We will detect those stories that take away Free Will, and replace them with ones that enforce Free Will, Your's Truly, DARPA

***

This is not a Democracy until everyone thinks the way we want them too, Yours Truly, DARPA

***

No, of course we haven't been infected by our own stories. What gives you that impression?, Yours Truly, DARPA"

Re: Darpa Wants to Master the Science of Propaganda

wwjimd — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 22:58:00 -0000

Best Line --> “The government is already trying to control the message, so why not have the science to do it in a systematic way?” said the researcher familiar with the project.

Re: Darpa Wants to Master the Science of Propaganda

wwjimd — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 23:01:00 -0000

***

This is not a Democracy until everyone thinks the way we want them too, Yours Truly, DARPA

***

No, of course we haven't been infected by our own stories. What gives you that impression?, Yours Truly, DARPA"

Re: The Challenges of Building a Digital Public Library of America

wwjimd — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 17:36:25 -0000

This made me have a tear. Thank you

Re: URGENT #GOVERNMENTS ORDER #YouTube TO #CENSOR PROTEST VIDEOS: #US, #UK, #EUROPE. Et Al.

wwjimd — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 17:43:18 -0000

Is there any particular instances of this happening, or a link to YouTube's policy regarding this, or, even better, a takedown page itself?

Re: Summify Users: We’re here for you. You’re Safe.

wwjimd — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:02:14 -0000

One of the things that I liked best about Summify when it first came out, well, other than it's summary, was it's ability to reshare, either on Facebook or Twitter, and easily give credit to where the share came from. Who was attributed, "via" @somebodieshandel, was decided algorithmicly (it auto-populated) when one decided to share a piece of content. Sometimes this algorithm worked well, sometimes it didnt. To quality check the algorithm, it was often useful to hover over people's icons on the original, non-pop-up sharing, window. This would bring up the text that made up the original person's tweet or Facebook post.

Over time, as Summifiy "improved" its UI, this ability to manual do quality control, instead of relying solely on Summify's algorithm, slowly eroded. Each new manifestation of the program becoming worst than the last. I don't know if this was conscious, or due to a oversight in the way some were using the program, but it was getting to a point where, even before they merged with twitter, that I was going to discontinue using the program. So, my request of you all, is to include some sort of functionality in News.Me that allows for easy manual quality control of attribution.

Re: Summify Users: We’re here for you. You’re Safe.

wwjimd — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:39:20 -0000

Finding good news, to me, only slightly eclipses sharing that news with relevant people.

Re: Startup dudes: Cut the sexist crap

wwjimd — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:47:24 -0000

I'm curious. And, please take me as being ignorant, and an opportunity to educate.

Is the problem the mention of her being "sexy" or her being "married." Also, is the problem that it is out of context and irrelevant, or is the problem that we should *never* comment on someones physical appearance or marital status? Lastly, if it is a problem of context and relevance, then is the problem that it wasn't meshed into large contextually relevant content, or that we should *never* say irrelevant out of context things?

For me, it came off as a public way to congratulate someone on their recent marriage. What is questionable, if anything, is the mention of the "sexiness" and the lack of additional contextually relevant content.

Am I missing something? Please, if so, inform me.

Re: Why you will regret using Vimeo.

wwjimd — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 00:45:07 -0000

Vimeo has decided to run their business in a particular way in which the money, loss of customer, isn't the bottom line. Rather, a set of principles, upheld in spirit, is. This is their right. And what, in part, makes their site enjoyable. By virtue of their continued existence operating in this fashion can be considered a workable business model. I'm uncertain what the problem is.

Re: Collaboratory Now - Harlan T Wood

wwjimd — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 17:44:42 -0000

Also, I've just thrown some more structure around the google doc you mention. Instead of having a doc called good conversations, I've switched to a folder with each doc in the folder representing a conversation. Sub-folders may be created later to deal with clusters of conversations.

The content of the doc will be a curated conversation from the thread(s) and link back to the conversation(s). Everything, including the folders is co-editable and able to be commented on commented on.

One function that I am unable to figure out currently how to do is have multiple instances of the same document synced across different folders. If anyone wants to tackle that one it would be great. (cc +Dan R.D. +Jenny Ryan +Glistening Deepwater +Alex Gagnon +Joel Gibby )

Here is the Folder:

https://docs.google.com/fol...

Here is a Meta Conversation about the Folder creation:

https://docs.google.com/doc...

Re: Collaboratory Now - Harlan T Wood

wwjimd — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 17:45:42 -0000

I was checking if peeps handles could be cross-pasted over, and be link-able. The answer is: nope.

Re: Collaboratory Now - Harlan T Wood

wwjimd — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 17:46:11 -0000

Also, reading this post was very interesting, because the name for the +Colabora tori came up sychronisticly/independently from +Venessa Miemis and crew's musing. Glad we are riding similar waves in similar surroundings being pinged by similar stimulus and putting out similar outputs.

Re: I Failed My Online Course—But Learned A Lot About Internet Education - by Selena Larson

wwjimd — Fri, 14 Mar 2014 21:55:25 -0000

Hmmm.

I've been taking online course regularly for about a year now, and I've heard some of the criticism you've voiced in your article echoed in other places. For the past few month's I've been mulling them over, and I think they are missing some crucial components about what MOOCS could be, or are, about. My thoughts aren't completely formulated yet, so please excuse their roughness.

I want to address two issues: one, peer-review rubric guided grading system, and, two, the retention rates.

Ill start with the grading system, because, to me, it is the least interesting concern. First, I would like to say that I've been tutoring students for a number of years, and, after reading your essay, I agree with some of the other commentators. I don't think it is close to "A" work. At most, a "B-" if the grader was being lenient. Other's have given their reasons why, and I, for the most part, agree with their analyses So, I don't think it makes sense to give another one here. Of course, the rubric wasn't made available, so, it might be the case that you did meet all the requirements, and all of your reviewers were being unfair. Do you have access to the rubric? Providing that to your audience may give us the opportunity to make a more accurate judgement of your case.

While it was obvious that the reviewer saying that your use of Fox News as a source was obviously misguided, what about the other four? The reason why multiple graders are used is because it has been demonstrated that after being trained on a rubric, non-professional graders do as well as professors grading their own paper. Sure, once and a while you have someone that is overly generous or vice versa, but this, in most cases, should shake out in the averages. It is statistically unlikely that you will get 5 graders all suffering from the same biases and inadequacies. In MASSIVE classes, this can be more problematic, because a larger total number of reviewers can be slackers, for lack of a better word. You an read more about 'calibrated peer reviews' and their counterpart 'automated essay scoring' in this article: http://www.rpajournal.com/d... On this topic, I also think it is worth of note that having students review other's work can enhance the learning process because it increases the likelihood that students will more deeply engage with the material.

I have a few more things that I want to cover here. I appreciate you bringing up the anonymity of users. I hadn't thought much about that before and want to explore it more. I also wanted to get to the bit about retention rates. I think this is going to have to wait till another time. I've spent more time than I meant to on this, and I need to get back to work.

Good day, all!

Re: Why you will regret using Vimeo.

wwjimd — Sat, 15 Mar 2014 17:00:25 -0000

You are quoting me, but I did't say anything you quoted. So, I'm uncertain to what you are replying.

Re: The End of iTunes Is Nigh: Apple and Amazon Suffer As Buying Stuff Becomes Obsolete

wwjimd — Thu, 30 Oct 2014 19:23:33 -0000

Two points:

1) You don't get to decide who is "real" or not. T

2) Copying and stealing are different things.

Re: The End of iTunes Is Nigh: Apple and Amazon Suffer As Buying Stuff Becomes Obsolete

wwjimd — Thu, 30 Oct 2014 19:29:33 -0000

This is the direction things are going.

Re: The Story of Love: David Riordan on the Integral Inquiry Into Christ

wwjimd — Thu, 05 Mar 2015 04:31:49 -0000

Usually, even with soundcloud, one can download the mp3. I do this to listen offline while I'm walking. For some reason, this is not possible with this episode. Any help would be appreciated. :)

Disqus - Friends of lindyasimus

Re: http://disqus.com/preview/

Re: Evaluating Blog Comment Systems

Re: When do you throw a CEO’s privacy under the bus?

Re: When do you throw a CEO’s privacy under the bus?

Re: When do you throw a CEO’s privacy under the bus?

Re: Possibilians vs Agnostics

Re: http://wwjimd.tumblr.com/post/9029115960

Re: Darpa Wants to Master the Science of Propaganda

Re: Darpa Wants to Master the Science of Propaganda

Re: Darpa Wants to Master the Science of Propaganda

Re: Darpa Wants to Master the Science of Propaganda

Re: The Challenges of Building a Digital Public Library of America

Re: ***URGENT*** #GOVERNMENTS ORDER #YouTube TO #CENSOR PROTEST VIDEOS: #US, #UK, #EUROPE. Et Al.

Re: Summify Users: We’re here for you. You’re Safe.

Re: Summify Users: We’re here for you. You’re Safe.

Re: Startup dudes: Cut the sexist crap

Re: Why you will regret using Vimeo.

Re: Collaboratory Now - Harlan T Wood

Re: Collaboratory Now - Harlan T Wood

Re: Collaboratory Now - Harlan T Wood

Re: I Failed My Online Course—But Learned A Lot About Internet Education - by Selena Larson

Re: Why you will regret using Vimeo.

Re: The End of iTunes Is Nigh: Apple and Amazon Suffer As Buying Stuff Becomes Obsolete

Re: The End of iTunes Is Nigh: Apple and Amazon Suffer As Buying Stuff Becomes Obsolete

Re: The Story of Love: David Riordan on the Integral Inquiry Into Christ

Re: URGENT #GOVERNMENTS ORDER #YouTube TO #CENSOR PROTEST VIDEOS: #US, #UK, #EUROPE. Et Al.