http://kruper.org/blog Living life on the long tail Sat, 15 Nov 2008 04:59:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The view out my office window is always spectacular, but today it's spectacular for a different reason. Not seven miles away, a fast moving fire has broken out and is sending up dramatic plumes of smoke that are drifting over the Denver metro area. So far, no homes are threatened. http://kruper.org/blog/archives/87 When you are following what you love, Life comes to you. Frank Orrall http://kruper.org/blog/archives/84 In very concise, if not very scientific format, I humbly present my findings: As you can see, BlueRay really is the cat's meow, somehow, AppleTV HD rocks, and Comcast bites. Stay tuned for updated studies that include Amazon Unbox and XBox360 Live Marketplace. http://kruper.org/blog/archives/83 Seen in the (very numerous and very lengthy) comments to a recent blog post: I wish I had time to read all the comments, so if someone already mentioned this, then I second it. http://kruper.org/blog/archives/81 From today's post-work random-eLearning-web-walk: I've always been interested in the LAMS (Learner Activity Management System) project, a sort of "visual learning design" approach to building learning activities ...maybe we should call the new platform we're building here at AAU SLAMS, for Social Learning Activity Management System??? :) Below are some resources on ... http://kruper.org/blog/archives/80 Latest find: this podcast interview with John Seely Brown, compliments of the Classroom 2.0 Ning network. Covering ideas contained in his upcoming new book as well as some recent publications, JSB offers great insight into how the perfect storm of open software and "web 2.0" tools of wikis, blogs, and social ... http://kruper.org/blog/archives/79 With all the Facebook-ing and MySpace-ing and Twitter-ing and other SNS-ing going on out there, it seems the lowly personal blog has taken quite a beating. My own turf here on the net is no exception, as I see it's been a solid ten months since my last posting. Putting ... http://kruper.org/blog/archives/78 As the Chief Learning Scientist at Cardean Learning Group (CLG), I'm responsible for plotting our pedagogy (actually, andragogy) and technology directions that power our online learning communities. As such, I'm lucky to work with a very talented group of instruction, interaction, and graphic designers, usability analysts, and software engineers. Together, ... http://kruper.org/blog/archives/77 As noted in a Slashdot comment to the article, "Is Social Network Fatigue Coming?": American culture is more mobile than ever. It's normal go to high school in one city, go to college in another city, and get a job in a third city. And even if you don't move around ... http://kruper.org/blog/archives/76 is this. ('cause it pair go so nicely with my 5th Gen iPod and currently-gathering-dust-pair of NHT SuperZeroes.) http://kruper.org/blog/archives/73