Category: Sharing economy

Internet/WWW has made remixing everyman’s right. Same time Internet/WWW has brought the idea of remixing to other types of media than audio. When the original meaning of remix “is an alternative version of a song, different from the original version” (Wikipedia), today remix can be a mixture of video clips, text and images, several images, […]

In the Media Lab Helsinki we are this week presenting and evaluating the Master thesis works of the spring graduates. Our two MA programs are relatively selective (we take about 20% of the applicants) and small (22 and 8 students). The small number of students makes it possible to have an event where our MA […]

The Finnish Wikiversity – called in Finnish “Wikiopisto” – was just given its own domain under the http://www.wikiversity.org. The Finnish Wikiversity is now the tenth “official” Wikiversity in the world. You can now found us from here http://fi.wikiversity.org. In Finland, having your “own university” feels right now so good. Why? We are in a middle […]

First Monday is probably the first openly accessible, peer-reviewed journal on the Internet. Since its start in 1996 I have been a reader of the journal. In the First Monday’s archives there are several articles that really have shaped my thinking on the Internet and the Web. The current volume (Volume 14, Number 2 – […]

Media Lab Helsinki demo day is a one day event taking place twice a year – every autumn and spring, in the end of the semester. During the demo day the students and faculty are presenting some of their projects done during the semester. Demo day is as old traditions as the Lab, found in […]

A friend, Mikko Mäkelä, came up with an idea of new Olympic sport. It would be called “Peace Walk”. In it five representatives from each nation would walk 20 kilometers and have a chat about what ever they want to talk about: politics, religion, everyday life issues, etc. It could be a great counter weight […]

I have tried to keep this blog free from “funny blog posts”. This is an exception. I got the link to the video from my boss. I guess he sent it to me because I just returned from a seven-month visit to California. If you didn’t know it yet we are involved in this “education […]

It must have been in 2005 in Pretoria when I first time met Erik Möller, a Wikimedian, who is nowadays working full time for the Wikimedia Foundation. We were both invited to a conference in South Africa to talk about open source tools for teaching and learning. I don’t even remember what did I talk […]

I got a link to this pretty neat web site explaining how educating girls pays off. It made me thing how value is created. Open source and value creation was also one of the topics we we chating about with Jon “maddog” Hall last week in Bogotá. Related to open source, open content and free […]

In March, April and May, I have bee facilitating with Hans Põldoja an experimental study project and course on a Wikiversity. The Composing free and open online educational resources course is now finished. It is time to celebrate! With Hans, we just checked our database of our notes and provided for the participants some “pass”, […]