Not So Distant Future

Debby Brailas shared a great tool to use with photos from Flickr.com. Splashr allows you to create postcards, slideshows, mosaics, etc, by either entering in a subject (tag) you want photos about, or by using the feed of someone’s Flickr account. For example, here’s the show I created about Afghanistan.  I entered Afghanistan as my subject tag, selected the type [...]

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   One way to make an issue more “sexy” is to get musicians behind it.  “Rock the Net,” is a new effort to jazz up and publicize the issue of Net Neutrality. If you aren’t familiar with the issue, here’s a recap.  Some large cable companies have proposed a “tiered” internet, where those who want [...]

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  Scribd is a cool new site, which allows you to upload your documents online, either to share them with others, or just to store them there privately.   If you choose to share your documents, people can comment on them, listen to them, rank them, or even purchase a printed copy of them.   It’s like [...]

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  I’ve been hearing some comments about  recent articles and news broadcasts, like this one,  Trust but Verify,  relating to Wikipedia being “banned” as a source by the history department at Middlebury College (now being joined by UCLA and others).   Actually, Wikipedia isn’t banned for student use entirely, just not permitted as a cited source for student papers and [...]

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Norman Morgan emailed this video which I had seen floating around the blogs recently, and it seemed fitting to share it and some followup as a vision of how the new interactivity of the web is changing our culture. It was created by a Kansas State professor of Digital Ethnography(interesting title), Michael Wesch. [youtube]6gmP4nk0EOE[/youtube] What  has [...]

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