Talking with machines

Talking with machines

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Text on a blue background. Facebook: its a love/hate relationship

Why I try to stay away from Facebook.

A friend posted a beautiful picture of the pool in the Berkeley City Club, formerly the Berkeley Women’s City Club, designed by Julia Morgan in 1929. Years ago, I took a wonderful class there offered by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. It was actually two classes on Greek Culture

Reflection of tree branch in the foreground and mountain peaks with the alpenglow of sunrise on a Siera Nevada creek.

What a week!

I started by meeting with my new coach Maren Deepwell. I met Maren in the Association for Learning Technology where she was CEO for a decade, and now, she has joined Reclaim Hosting, my domains and hosting provider. Reclaim was started by Jim Groom and Tim Owens based on their

Installing Hypothesis on Ghost

Installing Hypothesis on Ghost

After posting "Installing Disqus on Ghost", I decided to try adding Hypothesis to every post so people can have an option for commenting platforms. It wasn't hard to do, and now every post automatically has a Hypothesis sidebar panel. On my computer screen it doesn'

One Future of Learning

One Future of Learning

In my work with StoryCenter I was marginally involved in Arizona State University's 100 Year EdTech Project which gathered a group of educators, instructional designers, technologists and independent researchers to "imagine the next 50 years of education." The first Design Summit was held in February 2024

Installing Disqus on Ghost

I'm aware that not everyone likes Disqus. I've been using it for years and appreciate that all my comments are collected in one place. It was acquired a few years ago and no doubt is worse than before, but until I can figure out how else

An illustration of a tent with a campfire and trees.

My First Summer Camp

Join me in this week's EdTech extravaganza on the radio! As featured on Reclaim TV! I've created two sessions and am looking forward to having some end of summer fun. Take your radio along wherever you go and stream this cornucopia of conversations and music. Stories

Hello World!

Coming soon

This is Talking With Machines, a brand new site by Mark Corbett Wilson. I'll be musing about communication, lifelong learning, critical digital humanities, social science, and computing. And my experiences with machines. Things will be up and running here shortly, but you can subscribe in the meantime if