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If you suffer from fear of missing out (FOMO) then fear no more: you can now get onto Clubhouse. I won't be on Clubhouse because there's no desktop version; you have to use your phone. And that makes me deeply suspicious of its motives,...

If I had to put these ten points into a single point, it is this: the future of social won't be more of the same. And I think this is a good point. And if I had to characterize these ten points with a single observation, it would be this: these ten points are the dead ends we've reached with existing social. We've learned centralization doesn't work. It needs to support...

There's a lot of overlap between education and psychology, and therefore also a lot of overlap between different approaches to these two subjects. Take a disorder such as depression, for example. What causes it? Is it entirely internal, or do external factors matter? And if external...

There's a lesson here anyone interested in the ethics of AI or education or whatever should heed. "There are no simple solutions, because there will never be unanimous agreement on highly contested issues. Making matters more complicated, people are often ambivalent and...

I haven't been invited to Online Educa Berlin (OEB) for a few years now (not since my disastrous 'gRSShopper in a Box' workshop) but if I were I would still attend even if they are sponsored by Proctorio. Why? Well, Proctorio is...

Sometimes matter-of-fact updates contain hidden stories. This announcement is one of them. For example, I wonder what's behind this: "ali:free_to_read -- removed owing to inconsistent application across the sector." And this: "RIOXX v 3.0 moves away from using the XML 'id' attribute......

Tony Bates says he is "freaked out" by what's happening as schools ramp up for a "return to normal" in September. For one thing, he writes, we may be seeing an end to the non-interactive in-person lecture. It's hard to imagine; the impersonal lecture...