Lieberman Proposes Internet Kill Switch Powers for POTUS | GamePolitics
One further thought about the Internet.
- - By Kathryn Lewis
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Friday, June 18, 2010
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Wednesday, June 16, 2010
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Sunday, June 13, 2010
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Chinese Boot Camp Prison Break « GamePron
- Up to 24 million Chinese youths are addicted to the internet – and half of those are “obsessed” by online games. Treatment centres have popped up around the country, aiming to ‘cure’ these young people from their terrible affliction.
Understandably, it’s not what you’d call fun – and last week, a group of inmates at the Huai’an Internet Addiction Treatment Centre decided they’d had enough of the “monotonous work and intensive training”. Working together, they tied their duty supervisor to his bed and made a run for it.
The 14 patients, aged from 15 to 22, hailed a taxi to take them to a nearby town in east China’s Jiangsu province – but were uncovered when the driver took them to the police station instead, suspicious of the identically-dressed young men who were unable to pay the fare.
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Sunday, June 6, 2010
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Tuesday, June 1, 2010
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The Conversation: Why the iPad is not Perfect - ABC News
An interesting video about copyright, the news and the ipad.
- - By Tamsin Lloyd
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Sunday, May 30, 2010
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Saturday, May 29, 2010
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Friday, May 28, 2010
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Thursday, May 27, 2010
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New media death watch: New Matilda to fold – Crikey
Alternative online outlet New Matilda will shut down operations due to poor revenue from advertising "in the current media environment". Sad.
- - By César Albarrán
- ommentary forum
“We’ve now come to realise we were being too optimistic and that we’re unable to continue publishing into the next financial year. This is in large part due to the sheer difficulty of selling online advertising in the current media environment.
The Chaser boys have got an iPad app....
- - By Allison Jones
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Wednesday, May 26, 2010
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Tuesday, May 25, 2010
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Steve Jobs: 'You won't be disappointed' - CNN.com
- Apple has announced that CEO Steve Jobs will be emceeing the company's annual Worldwide Developers Conference keynote on June 7 in San Francisco.
- In addition to new iPhone hardware, Apple is expected to give further details on its next-generation mobile operating system, iPhone OS 4. The company in March previewed iPhone OS 4, which introduces support for multitasking and the ability to group apps in folders, among other features.
- The importance of WWDC continues to increase as Apple's rivalry with Google becomes more fierce in the mobile space.
- "If Google didn't act, we face a draconian future. One man, one company, one device would control our future," Vic Gundotra, vice president of engineering of Google, told attendees at the conference. "If you believe in openness and choice, welcome to Android."
Slim list of online books needs iPadding out
Is it worth having a tablet or e-reader if there's nothing to read on it?
- - By Tamsin Lloyd
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20 medios que entienden Twitter | Clases de Periodismo
20 spanish speaking media who use Twitter in the right way.
- - By César Albarrán
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Monday, May 24, 2010
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Sunday, May 23, 2010
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Has the iPhone lost its cool? - CNN.com
iPod vs. Google phone
- - By César Albarrán
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Saturday, May 22, 2010
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Thursday, May 20, 2010
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Zork (aka Dungeon). Early text-parsing interactive fiction game.
- - By Dan O'Reilly-Rowe
The official website of OuLiPo. Yep, some folks are still plugging away at the project.
- - By Dan O'Reilly-Rowe
An early text in the ludology vs narratology debates.
- - By Dan O'Reilly-Rowe
A game/documentary that I think is an excellent example of the potential use of gaming or interactive narrative as an educational tool towards social justice.
- - By Dan O'Reilly-Rowe
humanities+digital visual interpretations conference 2010 « HyperStudio – Digital Humanities at MIT
Conference going on right now at MIT.
- - By Dan O'Reilly-Rowe
How do visual representations of complex data help humanities scholars ask new questions? How does visual rhetoric shape the way we relate to documents and artifacts? And, can we recompose the field of digital humanities to integrate more dynamic analytical methods into humanities research?
HyperStudio’s Visual Interpretations conference will bring digital practitioners and humanities scholars together with experts in art and design to consider the past, present, and future of visual epistemology in digital humanities. The goal is to get beyond the notion that information exists independently of visual presentation, and to rethink visualization as an integrated analytical method in humanities scholarship. By fostering dialogue and critical engagement, this conference aims to explore new ways to design data and metadata structures so that their visual embodiments function as “humanities tools in digital environments.” (Johanna Drucker)
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Wednesday, May 19, 2010
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Hypertextopia Manifesto — Hypertextopia Manifesto
Writing stories by using axial hypertexts of fragments and shards of a story. You can publish your stories like a blog.
Different.- - By Kathryn Lewis
A good discussion on Apple's view on Flash, following our class discussion on standards and the iPad not supporting Flash.
- - By Tamsin Lloyd
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Tuesday, May 18, 2010
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Monday, May 17, 2010
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GQ's Men of the Year Issue on iPad: 365 Copies Sold
GQ Magazine is pleased with the sales of its iPad version, even though it is just less than 400 copies.
It may still take some time for publishers to feel the impact of the iPad in terms of strengthening their digital presence.- - By Miren Mendoza
- “This costs us nothing extra: no printing or postage,” says Hunsinger. “Everything is profit, and I look forward to the time when iPad issue sales become a major component to our circulation.”
- Although we need more data to make an accurate assessment, one thing seems certain — the iPad is not the savior certain major publishers had hoped it would be — at least not yet.
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AFP called to investigate Wikileaks - News
- Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has said that the Australian Federal Police (AFP) had been asked to look into his site's publishing of the Australian Government's blacklist of banned websites.
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Sunday, May 16, 2010
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Friday, May 14, 2010
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Stowe Boyd - /Message - Facebook Apologists Miss The Point: Facebook Isn't The Future
"Facebook Apologists Miss The Point: Facebook Isn't The Future
As the Facebook 'privacygate' affair swells and swells, most recently fed by the leaking of Zuckerberg instant messages from years ago, various members of the tech commentariat are starting to come forward to defend Zuckerberg and suggest that the media have gone too far.
My sense is that these apologists are going too far in supporting Zuckerberg and the actions that Facebook has taken"- - By Chris Chesher
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Thursday, May 13, 2010
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How to Save the News - Magazine - The Atlantic
There's lots of articles about the decline of newspapers in the digital age, but this is better (and more optimistic) than most.
- - By Tamsin Lloyd
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Tuesday, May 11, 2010
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Monday, May 10, 2010
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30+ Web 2.0 RSS Applications & Sites | Showcases | PelFusion.com
RSS is an important tool of marketing. Having great number of RSS readers means your blog or site worth a lot. There are lots of RSS applications and sites to submit your RSS or read RSS of other sites. I have showcased here 30 plus beautifully designed and very helpful RSS applications and sites.
- - By Chris Chesher
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Saturday, May 8, 2010
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iPad on sale internationally on May 28 | Technology | BigPond News
The gadget will be available in Australia at the end of this month. Would/will you buy one?
- - By César Albarrán
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Publish new bookmarks 05/08/2010 (p.m.)
- - By Allison Jones
Wikipedia Now Lets You Order Printed Books
- - By Allison Jones
Apple developing a Flash alternative....
- - By Allison Jones
- - By Allison Jones
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Thursday, May 6, 2010
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Newsweek magazine up for sale | Media | The Guardian
Newsweek magazine is now for sale, and competition with online news is one of the reasons why.
- - By Miren Mendoza
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Wednesday, May 5, 2010
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Wrong Deveny, Twitter is not just passing notes
- - By Bujuanes Livermore
Google to open e-bookstore in July
Google joins the e-book fray
- - By Tamsin Lloyd
Be careful what you post on Facebook!
- - By amy_fong
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Tuesday, May 4, 2010
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User-generated content & Web 2.0 websites
- - By Bujuanes Livermore
Goodbye petabytes, hello zettabytes | Technology | The Guardian
The explosion of social networking, online video services and digital photography, plus the continued popularity of mobile phones, email and web browsing, coupled with the growing desire of corporations and governments to know and store ever more data about everyone has created an unprecedented amount of digital information and introduced a new word to the nerd lexicon: a zettabyte.
- - By Chris Chesher
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Monday, May 3, 2010
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Saturday, May 1, 2010
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Penguin Forced To Pulp Pasta Bible Over Typo
be careful while proof-reading!
- - By César Albarrán
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Friday, April 30, 2010
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BBC News - 40 ways we still use floppy disks
Don't throw away yours! You could make a buck on eBay!
- - By César Albarrán
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What Does the Drooping Book Business Need? How About a Jolt of Espresso?
Content on eReaders - paid or an advertising model?
- - By Allison Jones
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Thursday, April 29, 2010
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Google's nightmare: Facebook 'Like' replaces links - CNN.com
Is Facebook going to outsmart Google?
- - By Kim Kooren
- - By Kim Kooren
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Wednesday, April 28, 2010
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010
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New book, available in print or as pdf. Maybe not of much interest to other folks in the course, but very closely related to my article's subject matter.
- - By Dan O'Reilly-Rowe
- “Wikiworld” explores a revolution in the world of education. The way we learn is changing: institutionalised learning is transforming into new forms of critical learning and open collaboration. This book offers a historical and political framework to think about the future of learning and educational media.The authors provide an overview of the use of new technologies and learning practices, and assess how the changing nature of education can lead to a more socially just future. At the same time, they place their analysis of education within a wider social and economic framework of contemporary capitalism
ConnectEd - Mobile Learning Initiative - Abilene Christian University
Info about wireless campus initiative
- - By Chris Chesher
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Monday, April 26, 2010
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MIT Comparative Media Studies: CMS News Archive
I don't think I entirely buy the idea that we're entering an era that is truly a return to oral traditions, in that I see written text as being a key feature of digital communication. More of a synthesis of print and pre-print modes. That said, I think that the Gutenberg Parenthesis idea a useful framework for thinking about the long history of human knowledge production and the place of "new" media in it.
- - By Dan O'Reilly-Rowe
- Is our emerging digital culture partly a return to practices and ways of thinking that were central to human societies before the advent of the printing press?
- The concept of a "Gutenberg Parenthesis" -- formulated by Prof. L. O. Sauerberg of the University of Southern Denmark -- offers a means of identifying and understanding the period, varying between societies and subcultures, during which the mediation of texts through time and across space was dominated by powerful permutations of letters, print, pages and books. Our current transitional experience toward a post-print media world dominated by digital technology and the internet can be usefully juxtaposed with that of the period -- Shakespeare's -- when England was making the transition into the parenthesis from a world of scribal transmission and oral performance
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Wikipedia amateurs face backlash from the experts - Times Online
An article from a few years ago that discusses the 'Citizendium' site - set up at the time as a rival to Wikipedia (which clearly, judging by the situation today, did not succeed as a true rival).
More interestingly, it dicusses the disconnect between the role of 'amateurs' and 'experts' - a classic dichotomy when considering digital publishing.- - By Tamsin Lloyd
Diversity Online - Pew Research Center
Pew Rsearch's project for excellence in journalism turned up some interesting points about how news is aggregated and consumed.
Three main points of interest were Google and its own unveiling of iPad.- - By Kathryn Lewis
Google & the Future of Books | The New York Review of Books
Darton - who wrote the famous 'Life Cycle of the Book' in 1989 - discusses the modern media landscape and the future of books in this environment.
- - By Tamsin Lloyd
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Saturday, April 24, 2010
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More Than Half of Mobile Internet Time Is Spent on Social Networks [STATS]
U.S. Students Suffering From Internet Addiction - Study - NYTimes.com
Although this isn't directly related to the subject, I think its an important emerging area of research. Internet addiction isn't yet recognised as a disorder by the American Psychiatric Association but I think its definitely time for that to change!
When I presented in class on multitasking it made me realise that this is a real problem, and that it has the potential to affect my productivity as a university student.- - By Tiana Stefanic
Reading on iPad before bed can affect sleep habits | Technology | Los Angeles Times
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Publish new bookmarks 04/24/2010 (p.m.)
NY “Pandora’s Box” VG Bill Still Alive | GamePolitics
A meeting in regards to the Bill (A2837) is set for April 27 in front of the New York Assembly Committee on Consumer Affairs and Protection. As it was explained to us, this simply means that politicos will gather to discuss the issue in order to appease constituents, all while Johnny Taxpayer foots the bill.
- - By Kathryn Lewis
Companies increasingly see possibilities in augmented reality - CNN.com
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Friday, April 23, 2010
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Thursday, April 22, 2010
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This is the About page for Tumblr, the website I mentioned in class several weeks ago. It is basically a blogging platform, and it's user-friendly format makes it really easy to share content.
Users can source their own content or reblog other users' content (including photos, videos, hyperlinks etc.) and it is displayed on their 'dashboard' which basically aggregates everything that you and the users you follow have posted.
It's also incredibly addictive.- - By Tiana Stefanic
Interesting comments on Bandwidth use and growth of new internet tools. Discussion around increasing tax on the useage. Also where some countries are banning iPad for reasons being interuping signals Isreal or that there are malfunctions.
- - By Kathryn Lewis
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Publish new bookmarks 04/22/2010 (p.m.)
Woodbury U. Banned From Second Life, Again - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education
A Second Life university razed and avatars snuffed because their virtual university didn't look enough like a meatspace institution?
- - By Dan O'Reilly-Rowe
- Woodbury University's virtual campus in Second Life was torn down yesterday by Linden Lab, the company that operates the virtual world, and the accounts of several students and professors were blocked.
- This is the second time that Linden Lab has removed Woodbury's virtual campus. About three years ago, the company wiped out the university's presence, saying that the university had violated the unspecified parts of the terms-of-service agreement. The university decided to rebuild through a reseller of Second Life land, though by doing so it no longer received Linden Lab's education discount.
- For years Second Life has been occasionally struck by online vandals, known as griefers, who stage disturbances in the virtual spaces, such as placing giant swastikas in public areas. In response, some users decided to seek justice outside traditional law. Their group, Justice League Unlimited, is led by an avatar named Kalel Venkman, who is designed to look like Superman.
- Woodbury has long encouraged anyone to use its Second Life campus to try experimental activities. At some point, one or more griefers became affiliated with the university in Second Life. The Justice League, concluding that Woodbury was responsible for the misbehavior, lobbied Linden Lab to block the virtual campus.
- The professor said he felt that the virtual campus did not conform to what Linden Lab wanted a campus to be—with buildings and virtual lecture halls.
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Wednesday, April 21, 2010
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Publish new bookmarks 04/21/2010 (p.m.)
Apple Rejects Kid-Friendly Programming App | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
- - By Kathryn Lewis
- Apple removed an app called Scratch from its iPhone and iPad App Store last week.
- “Both children and the internet are bigger than Apple, and things that are good for children of the world need to be able to run everywhere,” Kay e-mailed Wired.com.
McIntosh said that Apple removed the app because it allegedly violated a rule in the iPhone developer agreement — clause 3.3.2, which states iPhone apps may not contain code interpreters other than Apple’s. The clause reads:
An Application may not itself install or launch other executable code by any means, including without limitation through the use of a plug-in architecture, calling other frameworks, other APIs or otherwise. No interpreted code may be downloaded or used in an Application except for code that is interpreted and run by Apple’s Documented APIs and built-in interpreter(s).
Daring Fireball blogger John Gruber, who first reported the removal of Scratch, explained that Apple’s intention with the “no interpreters” rule is to block meta-platforms such as Adobe Flash.
- Apple earlier this month instituted a new rule that also effectively blocks meta-platforms: clause 3.3.1, which stipulates that iPhone apps may only be made using Apple-approved programming languages. Many have speculated that the main target of the new rule was Adobe, whose CS5 software, released last week, includes a feature to easily convert Flash-coded software into native iPhone apps.
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Tuesday, April 20, 2010
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This video is a call to action, a great intro to the concept of authenticity and reputation when it comes to information online.
- - By Tamsin Lloyd
How does the Associated Press update its style guide? - By Christopher Beam - Slate Magazine
Whilst maybe a bit obscure, I found this article really interesting discussing the changes to style guides by online publishers (such as AP).
- - By Tamsin Lloyd
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Monday, April 19, 2010
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Open City - Page Turner - Los Angeles magazine
It’s easy to become an e-book addict, even when it spells the end of your world
- - By César Albarrán
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Sunday, April 18, 2010
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Open Course in Education Futures | Open to all.
How is technology going to change the face of Education in the Future?
You may even sign up for this online course and participate in discussion on the future of education- - By Kathryn Lewis
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Thursday, April 15, 2010
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Twitter to be archived in the Library of Congress. Does a library have the right to save personal tweets?
- - By Kathryn Lewis
FT.com / Technology - Seagate to preload hard drives with movies
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Wednesday, April 14, 2010
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WePad - Designed in Germany | WePad
Some people seem to think life is all about the I, and the Me, Me, Me.
We beg to differ. To us, the power of many beats the power of one. That’s why we came up with the WePad: It’s the smarter solution for enjoying the Internet your way. Why? Because when you’re locked in, you get the Internet their way. It’s the opposite of free. Being told what you can see, what you can buy, and all the things you can not do – somehow, that just seems so 1984.
Why I won't buy an iPad (and think you shouldn't, either) - Boing Boing
- I've spent ten years now on Boing Boing, finding cool things that people have done and made and writing about them. Most of the really exciting stuff hasn't come from big corporations with enormous budgets, it's come from experimentalist amateurs. These people were able to make stuff and put it in the public's eye and even sell it without having to submit to the whims of a single company that had declared itself gatekeeper for your phone and other personal technology.
- And let's look at the iStore. For a company whose CEO professes a hatred of DRM, Apple sure has made DRM its alpha and omega. Having gotten into business with the two industries that most believe that you shouldn't be able to modify your hardware, load your own software on it, write software for it, override instructions given to it by the mothership (the entertainment industry and the phone companies), Apple has defined its business around these principles. It uses DRM to control what can run on your devices, which means that Apple's customers can't take their "iContent" with them to competing devices, and Apple developers can't sell on their own terms.
Gadgets come and gadgets go. The iPad you buy today will be e-waste in a year or two (less, if you decide not to pay to have the battery changed for you). The real issue isn't the capabilities of the piece of plastic you unwrap today, but the technical and social infrastructure that accompanies it.
If you want to live in the creative universe where anyone with a cool idea can make it and give it to you to run on your hardware, the iPad isn't for you.
If you want to live in the fair world where you get to keep (or give away) the stuff you buy, the iPad isn't for you.
If you want to write code for a platform where the only thing that determines whether you're going to succeed with it is whether your audience loves it, the iPad isn't for you.
EBSCOhost: Marketers bet on games to win consumers
advergaming relies on games to engage user adoption
in the world of consumerism.- - By Kathryn Lewis
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