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Via Downes and Others …

The Cute Cat Theory Talk at ETech
Web 1.0 was invented to allow physicists to share research papers.

Web 2.0 was created to allow people to share pictures of cute cats.

Read the whole article and ponder why I start out with this on a week where we’re going to talk about “Why Teach?”

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5 Responses to “The Cute Cat Theory”

  1. Donal Little Says:
    March 18th, 2008 at 10:36 am

    TWO WEEKZ AGO I COULDNT SPELL ACTIVIST…

  2. Learning Aesthics » lolcats Again Says:
    March 18th, 2008 at 11:05 am

    [...] friend Nathan over on Phaedrus pointed me to The Cute Cat Theory of Digital Activism, and that to DigiActive; all of which are [...]

  3. Joe McConda Says:
    March 18th, 2008 at 2:32 pm

    I wonder how much longer China will remain as it is with this technology. I also wonder how much sooner the Iron Curtain would have fallen if these social networks existed in the 80′s. Why teach? Maybe to make the world a better place?

  4. Jady Says:
    March 25th, 2008 at 10:24 pm

    Now your really shaking my comfort zone. I hadn’t really thought about activist. Now it makes me think about terrorists also.

  5. Why Teach/Cute Cats « Remonzer’s Weblog Says:
    March 27th, 2008 at 11:26 pm

    [...] blogged in a month, which is about how long it took to read the article at this site:  http://durandus.com/phaedrus/2008/03/17/the-cute-cat-theory/.  However, I have a tendency to investigate every link in a blog or article and that takes time, [...]

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