Doug Belshaw 🇪🇺☠️✊ @dajbelshaw@mastodon.social

Why badge endorsement is a game-changer
https://www.patreon.com/posts/21558243
#openbadges

Internalising the logic of social media

https://www.patreon.com/posts/21549221

Really pleased with the progress that we've made running an in-person workshop with Outlandish (co-op) for the #MoodleNet project.

Working collaboratively, the always-impressive @mayel has researched, documented, and decided upon an approach to front-end development in double-quick time.

GitLab issues: https://gitlab.com/groups/moodlenet/clients/-/issues

PS that's Rob from Outlandish in the photo, not Mayel!

The Digital Knowledge Loop

https://www.patreon.com/posts/21528806

“We see ourselves as non-conformist, but I think all of this [online shaming] is creating a more conformist, conservative age… We are defining the boundaries of normality by tearing apart the people outside of it.”

(Jon Ronson, 'So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed')

http://www.worldcat.org/title/so-youve-been-publicly-shamed/oclc/941726442&referer=brief_results

The rise and rise of e-sports

https://www.patreon.com/posts/21518158

(Educational) consulting for the uninitiated

https://www.patreon.com/posts/21491495

Fun, fame, and fortune https://blog.weareopen.coop/fun-fame-and-fortune-fc7d3f95c9a9

(reflections on a session we ran with @LdnCLC)

Update: after trying a private Google+ community (which no-one liked) we're now experimenting with Vero:

https://www.vero.co

It much more Path-like, but with some twists.

The fate of private social networks http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2018/09/17/private-social-networks/

There's a list of alternatives here, but some of them don't *feel* like alternatives because they're chat apps (like Telegram) or general social networking apps (like Facebook): https://alternativeto.net/software/path/

The thing Path did well was make you feel like you had a private social network. What else does that?

One of my favourite apps is shutting down: https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/17/rip-path/

I paid for Path to try and ensure, in a small way, this didn't happen. It's the only thing all of my family have ever agreed on to use, and it's a delightfully simple app.

Of course, they're all Facebook and WhatsApp users, so now that will be the default, unless I can get them to switch to something else. It would need to be:

- Private by default
- Delightful to use
- Provide emoji responses

Any ideas?

I also finished Ellen Ullman's "Life in Code" last night, which I've been reading in bitesize chunks.

The books contains chapters that were written over a 25-year period. It's all great, but the last one is fantastic.

https://www.worldcat.org/title/life-in-code-a-personal-history-of-technology/oclc/1000345223/editions?referer=di&editionsView=true

That, of course, should read "Frase's" but the capitalist autocorrect on my phone rejects his revolutionary name... 🙃

Just finished Peter Fraser's excellent "Four Futures: life after capitalism".

At 150 pages, it's a short but extremely valuable read which helped me think through the logical consequences of current trends.

Thought Shrapnel [#316]: Is that better? 🙄 🙄 🙄

https://mailchi.mp/thoughtshrapnel/316