As I understand the semantic web, which is somewhere between not very well and not at all, it will allow machines, or machine language, to describe human language. I have a slightly better understanding of human language, or at least the English portion of it, which is used to describe the world, but is not [...]
(This is a post that with it’s sister over on Sightwork has been hanging for a couple of weeks. I’m not sure if I’m a slow thinker; I know I’m a slow typer which accounts in part for the style, but that’s another post, as is ‘The Digital Divide & the Self-Selected’. Consider this a [...]
This was supposed to be a Friday Philosophy piece on a topic related to why this blog is called Learning Aesthetics, but as they say, “Shit happens.” I hesitated to use that phrase given that LA is, however unofficial, related to my professional life. I considered briefly using ‘S..t happens’ thus engaging you in a [...]
Frightens us. Which is why we made lawyers. That requires some unpacking. As I understand it the idea of the Law is to remove uncertainty, to rely not so much on logic as the past, precedent, rules. The rules may not make any sense, but at least they’re rules; lawyers understand that. That philosophy extends [...]
caveat emptor…Sometimes things catch your attention in ways that don’t seem related to the context in which you encounter them. There’s been a discussion on IT Forum this week with a sub-theme of what might count as Web-2.0 competencies for learning, which turns out to be different from simply using. There was a lot of [...]
Hugh MacLoed may have coined the phrase, “the market for something to believe in is infinite.” I’m pretty sure he was the first one to draw it on the back of a business card. After kind of a rough week I woke up this morning thinking about what we believe in, and why we come [...]
