{"id":90161,"date":"2024-01-05T16:53:09","date_gmt":"2024-01-05T21:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=90161"},"modified":"2024-01-05T16:53:46","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T21:53:46","slug":"some-solid-thoughts-again-from-stephen-downes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2024\/01\/05\/some-solid-thoughts-again-from-stephen-downes\/","title":{"rendered":"Some solid thoughts (again) from Stephen Downes"},"content":{"rendered":"

From DSC:<\/em><\/span>
\nI can’t agree more with Stephen and Simon here:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

I’ll never stop blogging: it’s an itch I have to scratch \u2013 and I don’t care if it’s an outdated format<\/a><\/strong>
\nSimon Reynolds,\u00a0The Guardian, Dec 26, 2023
\n

I have various blogs for different types of writing, some popular, some deliciously obscure. And there’s no such thing as an outdated format.\u00a0 I write about what I like to write about.<\/p>\n

Excerpt of the article by Simon Reynolds:<\/em><\/p>\n

Even if nobody reads them, I\u2019ll always be drawn to the freedom blogs offer. I can ramble about any subject I choose.
\n…
\nI miss the inter-blog chatter of the 2000s, but in truth, connectivity was only ever part of the appeal. I\u2019d do this even if no one read it.\u00a0Blogging, for me, is the perfect format. No restrictions when it comes to length or brevity: a post can be a considered and meticulously composed 3,000-word essay, or a spurted splat of speculation or whimsy. No rules about structure or consistency of tone.<\/p>\n

\n

Two other items from Stephen that caught my eye recently. The first item below is a great little AI tool that lets you input the URL of a video and receive a nice summary of the video.<\/span><\/p>\n

Summarize.Tech<\/strong><\/a>
\nSummarize, LLC, Dec 23, 2023
\nCommentary by\u00a0Stephen Downes<\/em><\/p>\n

Newspocalypse now<\/strong><\/a>
\nMike Orren,\u00a0Nieman Lab, Dec 19, 2023
\nCommentary by\u00a0Stephen Downes
\n.<\/span>
\nThis is significant because trends in education have pretty reliably followed trends in media by about ten years. Closed access classes and tuition revenue may\u00a0feel\u00a0pretty secure right now, but in a decade the bottom will be falling out of the market and higher education will be in the same shambles the news industry is today. “We will learn that the less something looks like what we have now, the better chance it has of being the thing on the other side of death.”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From DSC: I can’t agree more with Stephen and Simon here: I’ll never stop blogging: it’s an itch I have to scratch \u2013 and I don’t care if it’s an outdated format Simon Reynolds,\u00a0The Guardian, Dec 26, 2023 Excerpt of the commentary from Stephen Downes I have various blogs for different types of writing, some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,433,498,260,72,419,102,7,15,90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs-blogging","category-communications","category-communities-of-practice","category-content-development-aggregation-repositories","category-daniel-s-christian","category-ideas-teaching","category-learning","category-learning-ecosystem","category-lifelong-learning","category-englishwriting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90161"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90164,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90161\/revisions\/90164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}