ELI: What Wikipedia Can Teach Us About the New Media Literacies, Jenkins
Mark and I are in San Antonio at the ELI Annual conference. The program is super exciting with sessions on Second Life, social networking, haptic devices, and more. First up, Henry Jenkin’s talk about Wikipedia. Here are my notes from the session:
Wikipedia and other web 2.0 platforms are the equivalent of the rock n’ [...]
How Not to Argue the Effects of Social Networking
OMG! Have you ever wanted to shout at a computer screen? To scream at a page’s author across space and time and just yell “No!” This morning I’m in a rage about a totally crappy article published in the Telegraph. Dr. Aric Sigman is totally off his academic rocker. Among his claims:
25% of five year [...]
ROWE: The future of the productive information worker
Sometimes I sleep in. Other times I’m up at 3am. I work in pjs as much as I work in a suit and heels (ok, I don’t wear high-heels but you know what I mean). I’m an information worker, a web-citizen, a member of the digirati and I work where I want, when I want, [...]
IPhone Kewlness!: Your logo on iphone home pages
This makes me giggle! Ah the wonders of technology. The iphone firmware upgrade lets you bookmark webpages on the phone’s front page. A little file magic and Voila! My logo is the bookmark icon for my homepage!
To see other folks cheesing over their logos on the iphone click these:
- O’Reilly
-BoingBoing
Instructions for creating your own logo
I [...]
Geek Chic!
Listening to Bob Edwards on XNPR the other day I heard a great interview with child psychologist David Anderegg about his new book Nerds: Who Are They and Why We Need More of Them. Anderegg interviewed kids from 6th to 9th grade about nerds, what makes someone a nerd etc. In the interview he points [...]
Virtual Lower East Side: Yes, you too can be Emo!
NYT Article about MTV’s Virtual Lower East Side (VLES). VLES is an interesting response to the independent music scene on MySpace and other social sites (which seem to be faltering big time!). In VLES, and its accompanying social network site, bands and fans meet up to support their favorite music, vote for up and coming [...]