“Standards Are Like Sausages” « UK Web Focus
“Standards are like sausages” suggested Charles McCathieNevile at the OzeWAI 2009 conference. “I like sausages” he went on to say “but I’m not keen on exploring too closely how they’re made“.
A study of the effective use of social software to support student learning and engagement : JISC
Web Use Project: The Participation Divide: Content Creation and Sharing in the Digital Age
This paper looks at the prevalence of creative activity and sharing in an age when the barriers to disseminating material have been considerably lowered compared to earlier times. We use unique data to explore the extent to which young adults create video, music, writing and artistic photography, as well as the prevalence of sharing such material online. Findings suggest that despite new opportunities to engage in such distribution of content, relatively few people are taking advantage of these recent developments. Moreover, neither creation nor sharing is randomly distributed among a diverse group of young adults. Consistent with existing literature, creative activity is related to a person?s socioeconomic status as measured by parental schooling. The novel act of sharing online, however, is considerably different with men much more likely to engage in it. However, once we control for Internet user skill, men and women are equally likely to post their materials on the Web.
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I believe the original quote from Bismarck was along the lines of (subject to translation) "Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made." You'll have to excuse me; I'm particular about my quotes by old German politicians.
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