One of the best things about Creative Commons, the organization, is the passionate commitment of our entire board. In addition to volunteering thousands of hours over CC’s history, they’re responsible for the major donor fundraising that bootstrapped and sustains CC, but all of that goes on behind the scenes. For the past few years we’ve added a public fundraising component, wh......
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A bold argument: 2008 summoned the best overall election coverage I’ve ever seen.1 That is, the nature of our current information ecoystem — a rapidly maturing blogosphere, large news organizations working to adapt, the mainstreaming of participation on the Web — brought about a dramatic step forward in election coverage this year. Name a type of coverage or commentary citizens look fo......
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I just realised, I’ve been edublogging for 4 years now. I started in November 2004 , and while that doesn’t make me an early adopter, I was there the year it all changed . It is interesting to look back and see elements of consistency in my writing, and not too many embarrassing moments. Needless to say (to those who do blog their interests) I have learned a lot through exp......
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The Women’s Press Club of New York State is worried about your inner media geek. Well, not really worried so much as concerned that it’s not getting enough love and attention. And the press club has just the fix. The group is hosting a panel discussion Thursday evening about some of the issues raised by blogging, self-made media stars and entrepreneurial journalism. And the panel......
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Questa riflessione (non breve, mi dispiace) nasce da un post di Manteblog di giovedì scorso   (è proprio vero che le vie della provvidenza sono infinite). In esso, non senza una punta di compiacimento, Massimo Mantellini riprende dal blog di Sandro Gilioli una tabella pubblicata da L’espresso sul calo della diffusione dei quotidiani italiani. Si potrebbe argomentare ch......
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I just tried to edit a Google Groups page using Google Chrome , and I see: Page editing not supported in your web browser. Download a new copy of Firefox or Internet Explorer to edit pages. LOLZ! Apart from that, I continue to be pretty impressed with Chrome. A few more observations: I’ve seen a few crashes, and Google’s claims about sandboxing the tabs and apps seem......
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Denne lille tankevækkende film sætter det hele lidt på spidsen, men der er noget om snakken. EPIC 2014 Godt lavet. Er selv lidt i tvivl om hvor virkeligheden stopper og fiktionen sætter ind. Translate this post into english (it is a machine doing it, so it is not 100% perfect).......
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Aghh I’ve been reading some awesome stuff lately but no time to blog it all up. Check this out -- Nick Carr on miasma (not cloud) computing and the funny way we think about the internet: The metaphor of "the cloud" seems to have been derived from those schematic drawings of corporate computing systems that use stylized images of clouds to represent the Internet - tha......
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BERKELEY, CALIF. — The week-long training at UC Berkeley in multimedia has now moved to a new phase. After getting basic background on audio, video and photographic equipment, we went out into the field on our group’s assignment. My group, Team Gecko, went to visit Professor Robert Full to learn about the work he’s done in biomechanics. Full’s lab discovered the properties ......
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A major thank you to David Cohn for finding this gem of a video on jobs in journalism circa — I don’t know a long, long time ago. Seriously. Is this how journalism used to be? I remember a “Reading Rainbow” episode when I was growing up about how a newspaper was published, and even then, elementary school, I remember thinking it seemed dated. But I still loved that......
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This is the second in a series of reflections based on New Literacies: Everyday Practices and Classroom Learning, 2nd edition by Colin Lankshear and Michele Knobel . Check this post for an overview of New Literacies as presented in Chapter 1 of the book. Here are some thoughts generated from Chapter 2, “New Literacies: Challenge of Mindsets”: I am very interested in the subject......
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In November 2004 (20 years after 1984), Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson released a flash movie called EPIC 2014 covering a "fict ional" ; perspective of what the future might look like in a world of fragmentation, continued digitization of media, convergence and consumer empowerment. In this world, a new big brother called Googlezon . You can get a partial transcript here ......
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Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson han creado Epic 2015 , una actualización de Epic 2014 , un documental producido en 2015 por el Museum of Media History, que mira para atrás y nos cuenta como Google se unió con Amazon para crear Googlezon allá por el 2008, y como nació Epic, y mucho más…......
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Matt (Thompson) y yo ( Robert Sloan ) planeábamos construir un sitio web completo en torno a nuestra versión mejorada de la presentación escolar de Googlezon. Pero como eso parecía que no iba a suceder, hemos decidido simplemente publicar nuestra película Flash de ocho minutos por el mundo. No es lo ideal, porque sacará a la película de su contexto y se verá rara, pero hey! Veamo......
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Reading up on the librarians take on this issue gave me pause to think further on the consequences of the shift toward enabling the general population to find any information that is available. After reading this particular entry I added my own perspective, which is as follows: I would argue that there is a quantum mindshift that is occuring right now, and the biggest bottleneck is the paradi......
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