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Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

The answer to this question isn't one or the other, of course. It's all three (and various flavours of each). You use different media for different purposes. For people who want daily updates from me, there's email newsletters - that's really good for people who don't want to miss anything. The same is true of Twitter followers. For the content curators and knowledge seekers, RSS is really good because it provides a searchable archive and a way to integrate what I write with everything else they're reading. People who need more presence in their content will prefer my web-based presentations, which include audio and video. They and other people who find me by search rather than subscription also benefit from my blog posts. For those who want to see the dialogue with the world as my ideas form and take shape, there's Mastodon (and some of my video playlists) - but be warned, my thoughts are borne out of a lot of extrinsic and extraneous content, such as cycling, video games and photography. And then there's my home page, which includes links to all these things.

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