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Series of interviews on work and play

A series of interviews under the title ‘The Internet as Playground and Factory’ by Trebor Scholz and the New York digitallabor.org, Eugene Lang College, The New School University. Scholz in these interviews talks to varying writers and artists about the relationship between work and play on the Internet.
Interviewees include: McKenzie Wark, Jonah Brucker Cohen, [...]

twitter in the classroom

Twitter for education presentation as google doc. Twenty-Two Interesting Ways* to use Twitter in the Classroom

whats next?

Some notes on the google research blog about what comes next after web 2.0. I tracked down an article by T.V. Raman, Beyond Web 2.0: The Rest Of The Story I need to find some time to check it out in detail.

media trends

Picked this link up off AM’s blog, 5 Trends That Will Change Media in ‘09 and was particualry interested in the concept of curation economy:

1. The Growth of the Curation Economy
As the cost of the creation of content continues to come down, more content creators will come online. This will create a huge influx of [...]

Ultra-broadband

I read this article in the age on the weekend ‘Beginning to see the light‘, by Nick Miller which gives some insights into the next phase of the Internet. A phase which is all about increased speed “ultra-broadband”.

“With this light pipe and high-resolution video you have one wall of your living room dissolve and there [...]

Everything Is Miscellaneous

Sean sent across the new book by David Weinberger, Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the Digital Disorder. The summary from Amazon Books:

In Everything Is Miscellaneous, David Weinberger charts the new principles of digital order that are remaking business, education, politics, science, and culture. In his rollicking tour of the rise of the miscellaneous, he [...]

Web 2.0…The Machine is Us/ing Us

PIcked this up off the aoir list, a discussion about a video on YouTube titled ‘Web 2.0…The Machine is Us/ing Us’ that takes a swipe at web 2.0. A critique of the video on the on the Media @ LSE Group weblog in the post ‘Dangerously overstating the significance of Web 2.0′ Quote:
“It [...]