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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Friday, April 30, 2010
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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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Publish new bookmarks 04/26/2010 (p.m.)
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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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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Tuesday, April 13, 2010
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Google buys UK startup Plink |
Are we in the sixth wave with the buy up of startup companies?
- - By Kathryn Lewis
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How the iPad Will Change the Way You Do Business - ipad for business - Entrepreneur.com
A little more conversation, a little less panic please | EFA
O Romeo! Romeo! Web fare art thou Romeo: Classic theatre staged on Twitter - The Globe and Mail
- In a novel theatrical experiment, two British groups are mounting a real-time, modern adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet on what is literally a global and mobile stage – the social-networking platform Twitter.
- – already numbering in the several hundreds – are invited to respond.
- Twitter followers
Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Google CEO mentions mobile newspaper future
Google CEO believes online newspapers and journalism will flourish if the quality remains high and content is personalised and disseminated to moblies.
- - By Tamsin Lloyd
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Monday, April 12, 2010
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How the iPhone and other modes of screen reading transforming reading for dyslexics
- - By Allison Jones
Editorial | Revista Replicante
REPLICANTE, one of the few valuable cultural magazines in Mexico, has announced that it will, for now on, be 100% digital. Bold and telling move.
- - By César Albarrán
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Sunday, April 11, 2010
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Govt launches e-book strategy group - News - iTnews Mobile Edition
Australian epublishing policy
- - By Chris Chesher
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Saturday, April 10, 2010
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Digital economy bill backlash dominates e-election debate | Politics | guardian.co.uk
Digital Economy (DE) bill passes UK parliament with a near empty chamber.
- - By Dan O'Reilly-Rowe
Only one thing mattered to the UK's digital constituency this week: the digital economy bill. The election date announcement meant the #debill, as it is referred to on Twitter, was hurried through parliament before the election.
- As ever, Twitter is the back channel of choice for irreverent, real-time discussion, and commentators such as Kevin Marks, a former engineer for the BBC, Apple and Google, have been reinterpreting proceedings for the less politically inclined: "You'll care about the #debill when Youtube, Blogger, Google Docs are blocked for copyright infringement in the UK,"
- 64% of MPs didn't turn up to vote and 187 "strolled in at the end without bothering to listen to the debate".
The last straw was when it was revealed that Stephen Timms –- the minister for Digital Britain – was under the impression that "IP address" referred to "intellectual property", rather than internet protocol.
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Friday, April 9, 2010
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BBC News - Plans to tackle internet piracy 'breach human rights'
- Legislation aimed at tackling the problem internet piracy could breach European human rights legislation, Scottish solicitors have warned.
"If the bill were passed as it stands, it would mean that a subscriber's internet access could be limited or even cut off on the grounds of an alleged infringement without any court having made an order against that subscriber.
"This in our view raises serious concerns with the European convention on human rights, which provides that everyone is entitled to a fair and public hearing within a reasonable time by an independent and impartial tribunal established by law."
Korean-born street cook named best new chef in U.S. | Reuters
Uses Twitter to advice on the location of his taco trucks in LA.
- - By César Albarrán
- Food lovers can find his Kogi BBQ trucks via Twitter, the social networking tool that other food trucks rely on.
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Thursday, April 8, 2010
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The State of Music Online: Ten Years after Napster - Pew Research Center
Napster 10 years on.
- - By Kathryn Lewis
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Wednesday, April 7, 2010
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Rupert Murdoch defiant: 'I'll stop Google taking our news for nothing' | Media | guardian.co.uk
Just wait a second and think.... does he have a point?
- - By César Albarrán
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Publish new bookmarks 04/07/2010 (p.m.)
The iPad in the Eyes of the Digerati - Room for Debate Blog - NYTimes.com
This is a collection of expert opinions on the release of the iPad and whether it will have as profound effect on computing and publishing as some people have predicted.
It provides a good range of critical voices, including an eighth-grader whose achievements probably put us all to shame.- - By Tiana Stefanic
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Sunday, April 4, 2010
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Thursday, April 1, 2010
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UP 2.0: Some Theses on the Future of Academic Publishing
With the control of other media, including almost all the large trade book publishers, passing to international media conglomerates that ruthlessly put requirements for profit far above the social value of content, and the rise of web-based social networking sites draining advertising revenue from newspapers and magazines, university presses have become, almost by default, the primary source of robust information and sustained analysis on domestic issues such as poverty, education, public health, gun control, immigration, incarceration, civil liberties, and political democracy, as well as on the international issues, including ideological and religious struggles, human rights, torture, and economic development, that are so roiling the planet.
The problem now for UP 2.0 is to find the digital analogues and multidimensional digital enrichments for some or all of these functions. The future of the presses depends on successfully negotiating the digital transition with the support of university allies and cyberinfrastructure-supported connectivity. But there is a downside: if university presses fail in their metamorphosis to UP 2.0, they will almost certainly go the way of the actual dinosaurs (in the days before dinosaurs were deemed too big to fail), and likely will be replaced in the rapid evolution of scholarly publishing by more nimble, more adaptable, more imaginative—though not yet visible—digital shrews.
McKinsey Cloud Computing Report Conclusions Don't Add Up - CIO.de
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Publish new bookmarks 04/01/2010 (p.m.)
Yale Daily News - ITS delays switch to Gmail
- The changeover to Google as Yale’s e-mail provider has been put on hold.
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Google stores every piece of data in three centers randomly chosen from the many it operates worldwide in order to guard the company’s ability to recover lost information — but that also makes the data subject to the vagaries of foreign laws and governments, Fischer said. He added that Google was not willing to provide ITS with a list of countries to which the University’s data could be sent, but only a list of about 15 countries to which the data would not be sent.
Under the proposed switch, Yale might lose control over its data or could seem to endorse Google corporate policy and the large carbon footprint left by the company’s massive data centers. In addition, Fischer said, Google has a “one size fits all” customer service policy for its Google Apps clients, and the creation of a Google “monoculture” among e-mail users would cause severe problems when the company’s servers experience downtime or crashes.
How to Make a Documentary About Sampling--Legally - Culture - The Atlantic
- I recently co-produced a documentary titled Copyright Criminals, which examines the messy three-way collision between digital technology, musical collage, and intellectual property law. It aired on PBS's Emmy Award-winning series Independent Lens, played at the Toronto International Film Festival, and got a DVD release. My filmmaking partner Benjamin Franzen and I should be celebrating, but we're actually kind of terrified.
- While we raised the money to license about two-dozen songs and some footage, our film nevertheless contains over 400 brief-but-unlicensed uses of copyrighted material. When I can't sleep at night, I sometimes count how much we'd be liable for: up to $150,000 in statutory damages, per infringement. 400 x $150,000 = $60,000,000. Sixty. Million. Dollars.
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