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Perception of Corruption
If you are a part of the Open Web world, you know that net neutrality is an important concept to limit the ability of government, corporate and lobby interest groups to hijack Internet Service...
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Adjustment of Perception (ie Learning)
Alright, here’s the deal: A while back I made a promise to myself that Zythepsary would be the home for “pure unedited thought, art, media, writings”. I promised myself, and you, that I was going to...
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Life is a Game
Over the past couple of months I’ve seen a variety of discussions taking place concerning the positives and negatives of using the term “gamification” in reference to learning. In the educational...
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My Year in Review
Seems like I should follow suit and do a “Year in Review” post. I do so like to comply. I was moving around quite a bit this year. This post took me forever to put together. January: Ran the first New...
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Offline, Offroad, Off my Rocker
Missed me, didn’t you? Two full weeks of me not writing you and telling you the things floating around in my brain must have been excruciating. I mean, really, it’s not just self importance, now is it?...
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Part 2: Machine Learning & Serendipitous Communication
Disclaimers: the Summit and Mozfest are pretty much back to back, so please excuse me for not being faster with these posts. Did you read Part 1? Part 2 is kind of long, as this post is a bit...
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A couple days ago I had a BIG conversation with Bill Mills, the Community Manager for Mozilla Science Lab, about open learning, designing for participation, online engagement, collaboration,...
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On the Archive
The Internet Archive in the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, mirror of the Internet Archive in San Francisco (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Yesterday I got to hangout with the #DMLCommons folks in the blog garage...
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What’s next for Laura?
TL;DR My last day at Mozilla already happened, but I’m still me. I bring together disparate things to foster learning, spread openness and design for participation. I’m a creative generalist who likes...
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The Calm Catalyst
The last chapter of the Open Organization talks about how a leader in an open community has to be a catalyst: “An agent that provokes or speeds significant change in action.” When I read this...
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Connecting Knowledge
the participants at Mobiles x Mobilization Camp Last week I spend the majority of my time at Mobiles x Mobilization Camp, an event put on by the MobLab at Greenpeace. This event was designed to start a...
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Privacy/Security and Bullying
If all the sand in the Sahara is in the Sahara, and you have a mechanism to measure the exact shape of a single grain of sand, should the anthropomorphic sand try to hide their individual shapes? Of...
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Social norms: “professionalism”
photo by Chris Devers I’m not sure if it came from a guidance counselor or my parents or some sort of magical “install social norm” button, but somewhere along the lines I learned these things about...
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Introductory Ship’s Course
I’m just back from an activist training and generally awesome experience on the Greenpeace ship, the Arctic Sunrise. We sailed in the North Sea from February 15 – 17. What I learned aboard the Arctic...
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Pathways for Creative Leadership
image from David Sanabria. I’d like it better if both leader and manager were together pulling the business… After reading Titles are Toxic by Rands I remembered a document I wrote while I was still at...
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Supporters to Change Agents
Supporters to Change Agents, illustration by Iris Maertens Semantics play a big role in life. The words we use influence how we think. Words affect our thoughts on the people we’re trying to serve...
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