The first logo based on touch-screen gestures? An interesting approach to what people are dubbing the #NewAesthetic

RT @ValdisKrebs: NYTimes: The Many Faces of You #facebook

RT @PreApps: CyborgCamp a Success

interesting positions on what #contentstrategy actually is or is not, here and here

interesting positions on what #contentstrategy actually is or is not, here and here

interesting positions on what #contentstrategy actually is or is not, here and here

I was just awarded the "TV Fan" badge on @gomiso

Guardian on public service by design #servicedesign ...can these programmes be sustained after design expert leaves?

@z_rose is a really powerful free image editor. But the UI sucks monkey nads. ( makes it better)

Wow, very cool. RT @mfeathers: This is one of the coolest things I've seen all month. Seriously:

Why aren't there more people making musical instruments? I mean new musical instruments, like this?

Virginia Heffernan vs. ScienceBlogs « by @Neuroanthropology {I agree, but she mistakes polemic SBs for all sci. blogs}

"Her expectations ... are part of the story."

Yep, she's speaking from the point of view of ignorance, but it's partly reasonable ignorance. (and partly unreasonable professional ignorance).

Why yesterday's NYT piece is only half stupid, and why that troubles me:

This is smart, I think.

Reading: 'Did we pronounce privacy dead this week?' [CNET News]

The 'class divide' idea is interesting.

Topology?

my thoughts on failing in games RT @natronbaxter: Wait, you mean you want me to fail? Hot new blog post:

RT @suttree Scrawled some thoughts about @papasangre on the @madebymany blog, here:

Needs other pieces, but this is a really interesting take on the interface thing. No new controllers, just totally getting one of the senses right, like Mario got jumping right.

RT @noahwg Life without language. A nice read on the plight of the language-less & the role of language in cognition:

Loads of Whorf stuff here. Whorf needs a round-up.

Practice makes perfect? Cognitive neuroscience study suggests that it's the kind of practice that matters -

"[Dept of Infinite Chaos] Poyozo, a highly advanced, helpful-looking digi-life mgmt tool. I will never, ever use it " says @goodmachine

And I wonder if I will. But there's something here in this.

RT @iOPT Formal Learning All the Way...Baby - (Kapp Notes)

Medicine's always an outlier. And people forget just how much informal learning there is embedded in hospitals. It's phenomenal. And, of course, doctors - outside the surgery - really know very little. It's interesting to think about the cost of all this - when you look at Atul Gawande's figures about how long it takes to transmit knowledge around the world.

There's the elements of the complex and the obligatory cynefin diagram but there's also the element of persuasion. Formal does this badly, often. Not always, but often.

And there's the fact of organisational learning. This is very different to transmission of learning. It's the organisation learning new things - formal training is an attempt to manage complexity. You can't do this, you need to add in some mess to the surroundings.

Is informal learning the same as social learning? No, but it's instructive to see the differences:
http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/hrd/media/social_learning.html

Doctor examples where they know little: constipation

The idea of half-truths. There are good types and bad types. Social or Informal learning works with the good types. See wabi-sabi and Hegel.

The concept of the Zero-learning Curve is key here.

"Seeing the City as Software" & other thought provoking stuff in @agpublic's 'Towards a Read/Write Urbanism'

RT @lindastone Great quick read: Why Fun is a Serious Issue, Thomas Moore on the importance of lightening up.

RT @tom4cam: 2 great articles in the @nytimes today on the Open Education movement: &

RT @tom4cam: 2 great articles in the @nytimes today on the Open Education movement: &

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I'm Quitting the Internet (@slate) is as inspiring as it is terrifying. <A MUST READ. HT @sahana2802