Stephen Downes (April 6, 1959 –) is a designer and theorist in the fields of online learning and new media. April 6 is the 96th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (97th in leap years). ... 1959 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Born in Montreal (Quebec, Canada) Downes lived and worked across Canada before joining the National Research Council as a senior researcher in November, 2001. Currently based in Moncton, New Brunswick, at the Institute for Information Technology's e-Learning Research Group, Stephen has become a leading voice in the areas of learning objects and metadata as well as the emerging fields of weblogs in education and content syndication.
Stephen emphasized that the meaning of a piece of information is not all inherent: much of it is a product of context.
Stephen attacked the long tail for its power imbalance between the A-list bloggers and everyone else.
Stephen’s criticism of folksonomies was that they are so general as to be useless; he used Technorati’s list of the top tags as an example: one of the top tags is “general”.
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