Ex 4: Annotated List of Links

As my term project is developing templates and generating both Setonian Magazine documents (eBook and physical magazine), I took some time to look at both. Part of my investigation has been done previously, but it’s worth looking into yet again. I tried to find a balance between iBooks sources and physical magazine sources, but one [...]

Fin—Shirkey, Cognitive Surplus

“Study after study in the 1990s asked potential users what they would do with the internet if they got access to it, and the commonest answers always clustered around ‘I’ll use it to find information,’ ‘I’ll use it to help me with my schoolwork,’ and so on. Whenever a poll asked people already online what [...]

Why Do You Make Things? “Because it’s Fun”

Why do you make things? According to one peer, Karen, we make things “because it’s fun.” I’d like to take her statement a bit further, as Lee did, we make things because it challenges us to push beyond our limits. This idea is exactly what we’ve been talking about as we’ve been reading chapters out [...]

We are the product of “frozen sharing” —Shirkey, Cognitive Surplus

“The ‘frozen sharing’ creates great potential value. Enormous databases of images, text, videos and so on include many items that have never been looked at or read, but it costs little to keep those things available, and they may be useful to one person, years in the future. That tiny bit of value may seem [...]

Spreading knowledge clearly is the key to the future—Shirkey Ch. 5

“The spread of recipe-like clarity can accelerate the sharing of knowledge among groups working on the same problem, but it can also make it easier for others to benefit from the knowledge so produced, because clear expression of an idea can travel from person to person and group to group more easily than the same [...]

Motivation leads to greatness

Deci identifies two intrinsic motivations that might be labeled ‘personal:’ the desire to be autonomous (to determine what we do and how we do it) and the desire to be competent (to be good at what we do).

–Shirkey, Cognitive Surplus 75

Motivation.

It is the driving force for everything we do in life. As Clay [...]

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