{"id":2049,"date":"2016-03-19T12:43:05","date_gmt":"2016-03-19T16:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fleeptuque.com\/blog\/?p=2049"},"modified":"2016-03-19T12:43:05","modified_gmt":"2016-03-19T16:43:05","slug":"morning-coffee-reading-31916","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fleeptuque.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/morning-coffee-reading-31916\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Coffee Reading – 3\/19\/16"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blogging became too time-consuming. \u00c2\u00a0Formatting, linking, embedding, bad copy pasta that has to be fixed. \u00c2\u00a0But I’ll try again, because my network continues to inspire me so much, I feel I should make the effort as they do. \u00c2\u00a0Bless their hearts, what would I read in the morning if they got lazy like me?<\/p>\n

And, I remain forever amazed at\u00c2\u00a0how wonderful tripping, linking, chasing, stumbling through others’ thoughts on the internets can be, and how sharing our thoughts can further other people’s trips in (hopefully) meaningful ways.<\/p>\n

Here’s my latest trip to go with your morning coffee.<\/p>\n

Badges and evidence, the “reputation economy”, and data used to make decisions<\/h2>\n

Sparked by insomniac reading of Stephen Downing (@oldaily<\/a>) at 4AM earlier this week, I saw that he gave a keynote address<\/a> on the AvaCon grid<\/a> at the Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education 2016 conference<\/a>,\u00c2\u00a0wherein he speculates, “about the future of virtual worlds in learning when they are mixed with mobile devices and performance support systems.”<\/p>\n

Scanning past Stephen’s\u00c2\u00a0blurb about the VWBPE keynote, somehow\u00c2\u00a0I came across Alan Levine’s (@cogdog<\/a>) recent post “Seeking Evidence of Badge Evidence<\/a>“, wherein he explores the usefulness of gamified badging systems if they don’t link to actual evidence that the badge was earned. \u00c2\u00a0Metadata about the evidence isn’t the same as linking to the evidence itself, right? \u00c2\u00a0Right.<\/p>\n

This sparked a memory of an older post of mine, Twitter and the Reputation Economy in 2014<\/a>, wherein I mused about how to measure “reputation” and suggested that Twitter Lists provide a non-obvious measure of something. \u00c2\u00a0Alan subsequently pointed out that a Twitter list wordcloud may be an\u00c2\u00a0indicator,\u00c2\u00a0<\/em> but it is not a\u00c2\u00a0measure.<\/em> \u00c2\u00a0Good point.<\/p>\n

My tweet about Alan’s post sparked D’Arcy Norman (@dlnorman<\/a>) to point to Cory Doctorow’s (@doctorow<\/a>) recent post about what a terrible currency reputation would be.<\/p>\n

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@fleep<\/a> @cogdog<\/a> interesting. @doctorow<\/a> recently wrote that reputation would be a terrible currency https:\/\/t.co\/h5mMDyOPOy<\/a> (read Down and Out<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u201d D\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Arcy Norman (@dlnorman) March 16, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n