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Yeah, server completely fell over when we all slashdotted it. This is the sort of thing to bookmark and then try to remember it again tomorrow.

Badgr https://badgr.com (A product of Concentric Sky) | Technical Account Manager | Eugene, OR; or REMOTE (US) | Full Time

Badgr is an industry-leading digital credentials platform. We help organizations implement branded learning ecosystems that support their communities with skills-based digital credentials, stackable learning pathways, and portable learner records.

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It's pretty much impossible for Amazon to tell whether an item is a licensed use of a copyrighted creative work or not. It's perfectly legal to resell work that was legally bought with no additional permission from the creator, for instance. (It is pretty clear from a human analysis here that the seller is infringing copyrights by making prints of digital images found online, but it would be pretty much impossible to create some sort of filter that would block these products from being offered on the platform).

From the thread, it looked like the support representatives engaged with the person complaining on Facebook, reported some items had been removed in the past based on takedown requests. That's pretty responsive, all in all. Maybe the artist could enlist some additional help discovering and helping him and other affected artists report for takedown the items that this seller is offering so they'd eventually . Or they could gather some funds and sue Amazon.

My local recycling program no longer accepts almost all plastic recycling due to China blocking shipments because what they were getting from plastic container loads were too contaminated. No thanks!

I've been following some friends' travels through southeast Asia over the last six months via Instagram, and it's been great. Seems like they're having a great time, and I like being able to talk to them about what they're seeing, doing, and eating. Bummer this other person felt her vacation was ruined by what she chose to do.

MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015)

Got a work machine to upgrade from my 2011 13" MacBook Pro, and the extra screen space really helps with multitasking, but it sure is a lot heavier than the 13".

Badge Alliance (https://badgealliance.org) | Eugene, OR | Part-Time Junior Developer | Contract position | Remote or onsite

We are the standards body and Community Hub for the Open Badges specification, the shared language for portable educational credentials.

This is a great starting position to get involved in an exciting open-source community and edtech. It's a contract hire with a good chance of turning into a permanent position in the spring. Responsibilities include semantic web standards development activity and prototyping in JavaScript/Node.js & Python. Open to part-time students finishing their CS degrees.

More info & Apply: https://www.badgealliance.org/jobs/

Yeah. China has one time-zone, but is wide enough for five, and they already treat time like this.

The last week has been stupid, with UK and Europe already switching back to standard time with the US lagging on DST.

UTC Now! (Sent at 16:16 UTC)

"So you have to wonder, what's really the point in measuring weight? Why not measure what really matters, the size of your body!"

I do have to wonder, why is it that the size of your body matters?

Oof.

The poster should forward that email to whoever else at the company can deal with it so that hopefully someone else doesn't have to deal with it in the future.

Interesting. You might be interested in some of the discussions we've been having in the http://opencreds.org/ group.

Especially under the current copyright regime, finding some solution that preserves the intent of the creator to publish in a fixed format, would be a great component of a distributed publishing system. I don't think this proposal has as good a fair use defense as the Internet Archive wayback machine does.

In the world today, we often think of publishing online as providing access to something under our control. I think a technology that aims to solve these problems should embody a different spirit, one closer to "making public". The word "mine" doesn't need to imply ownership in the sense of exclusive control. I mean, "My children" is at least as meaningful a relationship as "my property". Some kind of copyright license ability built into a distributed document publishing system would be nice.

Thanks for pointing these out. The perception in the MOOC community is really not much more nuanced than the headline, so it might be scaring others off from making a big credit push.

I would wonder if they'd look at this and worry that there wouldn't be enough interest:

A University's Offer of Credit for a MOOC Gets No Takers http://chronicle.com/article/A-Universitys-Offer-of-Credit/1...

The idea of breaking down courses is really interesting to me, because I think a "course" is a great way to organize content in a field. Let an expert guide you through a series of perspectives. But completing them often takes more dedication than most busy people can muster.

By breaking courses down to a more granular level of components, there is a huge chance to recognize people for the pieces they are able to complete and let them string those together in new ways that the traditional course designers hadn't thought of. But there are huge challenges around figuring out how different modules could be fit together into new ways. For instance, the Open Educational Resource repositories have had really slow adoption because of it, even though they have in total a ton of great educational content (and quantities of chaff).

I wrote a little bit more about this today, and how digital badges could help a provider like edX crowdsource good organization of many distributed modules. http://remediatingassessment.blogspot.com/2014/08/mit-report...

I think it's really all about switching to a different metaphor for organizing content and examining the entailments of that metaphor to make sure their internal logic leads you to the values you want to promote.

Worried enough about posting this that you'd create a new account so that people don't see this connected to whatever your long-term identity is?

Thankfully, the best way to use myOpenID was to delegate to it from the ID you actually wanted to use, so everybody who did this will still be able to log in using their OpenID credentials as soon as they find a replacement to actually be the endpoint.