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Re: Uncle Herbert’s Autobiography

joemagennis — Mon, 06 May 2013 22:39:19 -0000

Love this stuff ... Content (story) preservation is mostly neglected in this age of massive content creation. Generational communication gets me fired up.

Re: Cards from the Diamond

joemagennis — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 18:19:39 -0000

Cliff .. you've got a fun site going on there! You've certainly got alot of material to work from .. keep them coming.

Re: Cards from the Diamond

joemagennis — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 11:45:33 -0000

Thanks Tim! Happy Holidays .. these cards really do jog the memory banks. Do you have a favorite series? I've always liked the dark borders around the '71 Topps.

Re: What Google Reader Might Have Been

joemagennis — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 17:05:48 -0000

Nice, I'm test driving the pocket integration right now!

Re: What Google Reader Might Have Been

joemagennis — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 08:35:07 -0000

Fever looks interesting for aggregation but I'm still looking for the perfect platform for group curation. Curata seems really good but at $1k per month it's too expensive. (even better if I could share direct from Flipboard)

Re: Cards from the Diamond

joemagennis — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 09:26:24 -0000

How right you are! Style point FTW :-)

Re: I’ve Been Reading Too Much Dave Winer

joemagennis — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 09:03:50 -0000

Been in the Dave Winer vein a bit myself lately .. thinking about how data portability / open standards would look for students, as we see more and more adoption of apps in the classroom. Hmmmm .. Now where would I find a teacher who might have some thoughts on the subject?

Re: Strange But True Baseball Stories

joemagennis — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 13:55:59 -0000

Dennis .. there used to be a video associated with this post where I showed the cover and mentioned a few of my favorite stories ie Pete Gray & Eddie Gaedel ... somehow it disappeared.

Re: Rejection (and Other New Hack Education Projects)

joemagennis — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 09:58:39 -0000

Hmm, I'll leave out the indictment of the probably self serving decision to go with capital M Media .....

.. hopefully the significant questions raised in your proposal are not backburnered per se, rather become the general framework of a much longer view of the space, with various outlets and resources revealing themselves in time. They are important questions to ask.

Best,
Joe

Re: Thankful For A Vision of The Past

joemagennis — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 11:47:04 -0000

Thanks Perry .. I constantly ponder how my girls lives will be changed by the persistent memory collection on social networks. Happy Opening Day!

Re: Thankful For A Vision of The Past

joemagennis — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 11:02:58 -0000

Bill, I remember that he was one of your favorites. Whenever I go through the Cards posting I think of you when I see him! I just wish instead of a hitch, we had a video of a gapper and pulling in for a standup double .. oh well.

Tick tock, spring is in the air....

Re: Weekly Ed-Tech Podcast with Steve Hargadon

joemagennis — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 14:41:07 -0000

Audrey .. I really enjoy your podcast. I find myself fully engaged in your conversations.

I was interested in your discussion about Rafter. In particular I was drawn towards Steve's desire for an entity that will succeed in aggregating (I believe it's more like curating) content and managing the various clearance hurdles.

What is your expectation for the future of copy protected educational content? I expect a trend towards self published content where the author can monetize in many ways beyond locking it down.

Re: Cover the Bases Interview with Author Dirk Hayhurst

joemagennis — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:41:03 -0000

Thanks Jol .. thank you for taking the time to comment. It was a great pleasure to read the book & to speak with Dirk about it. Wishing him well in all of his pursuits. We will continue to hear from him even after his playing days are done.

Re: Shareist Looks Tremendous

joemagennis — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 16:38:44 -0000

We need to talk ..
http://www.dosynt.com/

Re: Cover the Bases Interview with Author Josh Wilker

joemagennis — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 21:19:58 -0000

Hi Michael, thanks for commenting. My one regret is that I have not had the time to speak with more authors this past year .. however, I hope to spend this offseason catching up with a few of my favorites. It looks like you have some great content on your site as well!

Drop me a line at wisdom <at> baseballisms dot com

Re: Shareist - Content Curation Platform

joemagennis — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 11:28:09 -0000

Grey Poupon model ... if you want it, you've got to pay top dollar for it. It's worth it. It might be counter intuitive, but I think this is especially important at the beginning. Price can always go down, but rarely does it get away with going up. Top shelf gives you a limited customer base to support, keeps out those less committed, and allows you to focus on developing features instead of activations. I understand your conflict (I'm still trying to figure out a Free model). How does the roadmap look from an exit and working backwards?

Re: Should Students Use Pseudonyms Online?

joemagennis — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 13:38:08 -0000

Just discovered your blog and have been devouring it!

This is a great issue to discuss. It crosses many boundaries that we must navigate during our daily lives, and will be with us for a long time.

I completely understand the safety & privacy issues that this topic reveals, as well as the potential for abuse and disruption should an identity get hacked and defaced "for fun", as kids might do. It is easy to see how we would want some protections in place.

However, I also believe that students will start to accumulate content as they progress through their education. A collection of topics and interests, accumulated or discarded as they wish. Their interactions around these topics might become useful as they pursue a career or degree, and it could be beneficial to point to this content (and I include comments, conversations, blog posts, Likes, etc..) as a way of establishing credibility and building a reputation.

The value of this content is diminished without a way to effectively authenticate the owner's identity.

I don't know where the balance is yet.

Re: Cards from the Diamond

joemagennis — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 11:18:03 -0000

Nice Tim .. seems like that is indicative of the Oriole Way. I have a 1969 card of Wally Bunker on the Royals, so he didn't last long in the system.

Re: How Schools Could Use Social Media

joemagennis — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 09:34:27 -0000

Desiree .. Have you heard about this http://www.khanacademy.org/ ?

I like his concept of flipping the classroom. He espouses that the lectures that teachers present in front the blackboard could be videos that students watch at home. The more challenging "homework" like exercises & essays could be conducted under the watchful eye of the teacher at school.

Makes sense to me.

Re: Cards from the Diamond

joemagennis — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 11:16:25 -0000

Evan .. don't know of any poetry book that he has published, but of course there is The Bronx Zoo classic. If you are interested, here is an interview I did with his co-author Peter Golenbock about his recent book Steinbrenner - http://baseballisms.com/pod...

Re: Cards from the Diamond

joemagennis — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 20:09:34 -0000

And how cool is it to see Luis Tiant as a Cleveland Indian (sans Fu Manchu)? .. PS, there's more El Tiante coming up in this little segment. Was his an underrated career?

Re: Cards from the Diamond

joemagennis — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 14:49:47 -0000

Rob.. they were so clever at Topps in those pre-photoshop touchup days :-)

Re: Cards from the Diamond

joemagennis — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 21:55:17 -0000

Doug .. as I came of age outside of Boston, Rico was a third baseman playing along side a cast of shortstops including Luis Aparicio, Mario Guerrero and eventually Rick Burleson. It wasn't until later on that I discovered he was the shortstop catching the soft liner for the final out of the '67 regular season. He still seems to have great support of the fans to this day.

Thanks for checking us out! Come back often.
Joe

Re: Cards from the Diamond

joemagennis — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 10:23:55 -0000

I know what you mean Mark .. especially since 1974 seemed to make a concerted effort to feature cards with action shots. '73 was a decent card, and his 1971 (my favorite series) is an action shot but it looks like he just struck out :-(

Re: The dangers of aggregation and curation

joemagennis — Wed, 18 May 2011 09:36:26 -0000

Chris, I think those are problems assigned to the person (Curator / Aggregator) and not necessarily the acts of aggregation and curation as in the headline. As we build personal reputations, followers assign levels of trust. I value the insights that you will add to your curated content and trust that you have vetted to the original source, as a good curator will do. Those who profess to be curators but only skim content and add inaccurate commentary will quickly lose trust and value. Curation is here, now it's time to seek out the curators.