Category: Disruptive Tech
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Digital Native gives digital immigrant a "heads up."
Note: contains personal anecdote, but may be useful anyway. Also called “the millenials” that wacky group of folk about 29 or younger, are more connected than some Boomers like myself. I was using Gmail and I finally figured out how to use iChat. Then more time passed and I realized the little green dot meant…
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New media is always disruptive.
I didn’t say that. Marshall McLuhan did. But it is something that is a hard lesson to grasp. The “1984” mash-up that puts Hillary Clinton in the “Big Brother” role, and the iPod carrying, screen smasher who represents a blow for freedom is wearing an “Obama” t-shirt. I found it and the brief discussion that…
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Live Blogging gets systematic
Amy Gahran details how the Knight Center is deploying students at conference sessions to engage in “live blogging.” Things have come a long way since I first live blogged from Newsplex and discovered that it is better to synthesize than try and cover an event in its entirety. Also, it kind of indicates that conference…
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Giant Zero Journalism
Via Amy Gahran in Poynter, I found this essay by Doc Searls on Ground Zero Journalism I will be posting a longer review and essay about this myself.
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Countering cultural imperialism at home
Last night I was listening to Kot and DeRogatis‘ talking about a talented performer who is signed to a record label whose latest recording cannot be bought, at any cost. Instead, Tim Fite’s very political, satirical and musical album is free for anyone to download. Fite told Kot & DeRogatis that if he was making…
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End of the year contemplation: the $100 laptop
Emerging technologies and their effect on society MIT’s Nicholas Negroponte has proposed and gone forward with his “$100 laptop” idea. Negroponte calls it the most important idea of his lifetime. It is about education, not the device itself. This link goes to a neat MIT site where you can watch the speech as a video…
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Inside Higher Ed :: Easy Targets
Journalists, writers, teachers, students who want to write will find this a good read. Academics discuss the MLA convention and the rocky relationship between journalists and academic writer/scholars. Inside Higher Ed :: Easy Targets This summarizes their gripes but gives you something to think and even write about Shumway argued that “reporters who cover academics…
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Top 10 tech trends for 2006
Another “top trends” listing. The discussion of Wi-Fi and Wi-Max is interesting. Here in Chicago, thecity and county have been holding hearings about municipal Wifi. There is an interesting project going on with a mesh network at the old Sears on the Westside. Vlogs will be big, video from the Big, big screen and from…
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Slashdot | Podcasting Censored by Government
Podcasting, territoriality, and government media regulations have apparently clashed in Flanders. Slashdot | Podcasting Censored by Government bye for now
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Area code 615
Blog Nashville is taking shape and it looks interesting. The sessions are taking shape and I think there will be content aplenty. Sybril Bennett is the dynamic executive director of the New Century Journalism School which is playing host to the event. Sabril and I spent time at Newsplex, and I guess my work with…
Barbara K Iverson 