I've worked in educational technology since the 1990s. I'm currently exploring applications of federated wiki to education. Most of my day is spent helping faculty integrate technology into teaching as Washington State University Vancouver as the Director of Blended and Networked Learning.
"Turns out there are more jobs in technology than linguistics. And that excited me." Mike Caulfield
I was about to write an email to Mike Caulfield thanking him for his leadership of this happening. I chose to write my reflection here instead.
Do some homework before reading anything on the net. Mike Caulfield explains why.
Four distinct concerns surface when designing federated wiki based information communities. We identify each and suggest forces that must be resolved before creative collaboration will take place.
Inspired by Mike Caulfield, I now write about my thoughts day to day. Often these are from things I read.
We consider how and why additional structure can be added to the sequence of paragraphs that tell a story.
I saw a tweet from Alyson this morning remembering her participation in Mike Caulfield's educational technology flash crowd happening. She wrote then and now of hospitality within community, online and in person.
Strange Authors are people that I know and respect from their writing - see Writing With Strangers
Mike Caulfield writes, My belief is that humans have a couple modes of working with truth. Some are adversarial and propagative, and some are exploratory and collaborative. The adversarial mode is killing us. post 
The Garden and the Stream: A Technopastoral. Opening keynote for dLRN 2015. Delivered October 16th @ Stanford. Mike Caulfield. post
We consider how to collaborate with large image, audio and video recordings. We look especially for ways that our strength, federation, brings something new to each medium.
Mike Caulfield argues for a move from streams of response and reaction to gardens of connections, of intentional, designed, thoughtfully constructed spaces. Keynote: The Garden and the Stream blog.
Frances Bell I would just like to connect the prongs of our forks (so to speak) to link your thoughts to my recent post Observations on Culture Building at Fedwiki Happening
Events came up that pulled me away from the FedWiki Happening for a few days, and I noticed something interesting when I returned: It was harder than I anticipated to "catch up" after 2-3 days absence.
Project Xanadu is a much-misunderstood initiative to create a different kind of computer world based on a different kind of electronic document. The computer world is not just technicality and razzle-dazzle. It is a continual war over software politics and paradigms. OpenXanadu continues with ideas which are still radical.