The blogosphere is coming to a newspaper near you. Beginning April with Boston as the pilot market, Icelandic publishing co. Dagsbrun plans to launch free dailies in 10 U.S. cities. The papers will run blogs alongside the usual newspaper fare. The flagship paper, BostonNOW, hits the streets today. Editor in Chief says bloggers will not only get an outlet for their musings, they'll also break news.
The April 16 Archive uses electronic media to collect, preserve, and present the stories and digital record of the Virginia Tech tragedy of April 16, 2007. Virginia Tech's Center for Digital Discourse and Culture (CDDC) launched this project. This project seeks to preserve the record of this event by collecting first-hand accounts, on-scene images, blog postings, and podcasts.
Critics have mocked the banality of most tweets & questioned whether we really need such an assault upon our powers of concentration. But right now, it’s one of the fastest-growing phenomena on the Internet. I also strongly disliked the radical self-revelation of Twitter. I wasn’t sure that it was good for my intimate circle to know so much about my daily rounds, or healthy for me to tell them.
I'm always interested in videogames that claim to present complex, controversial, or spiritual ideas, so I was interested to read an article yesterday about a game sponsored by Thailand's Department of Religious Affairs that promotes Buddhism. The English title of the game is The Ethics Game and the article (which is basically a press release) explains that the game teaches good, ethical behavior as opposed to all the violence and killing one finds in most video games.
The Game Genie is a series of cheat cartridges designed by Codemasters and sold by Camerica and Galoob for the Nintendo Entertainment System, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Game Boy, Mega Drive/Genesis, and Sega Game Gear that modifies game data, allowing the player to cheat, manipulate various aspects of games, and sometimes view unused content and functions. Although there are currently no Game Genie products on the market, most video game console emulators feature Game Genie support.
Over the course of Jonathan Lethem's new indie rock novel, You Don't Love Me, we discover that none of Monster Eyes' songs come from one author. They're cobbled together out of pop culture, history, conversations & the ephemera of everyday life. One character tries to claim copyright on the songs after contributing some lyrics, and Lethem characterizes his actions as "manipulative" and "bullying."
Wayne Chiang (23) was mistaken by some as the VT shooter--partly because his Facebook profile includes references to graduating from Virginia Tech and several photos of him with his gun collection. At first, Chiang says he "played along with it" on his personal web page, partly to see how much money he could make, since payment from the ads he places on his site are based on the number of hits.
Elgg represents a shift from aging, top-down classroom technologies like Blackboard to what e-learning practitioners call personal learning environments -- mashup spaces comprising del.icio.us feeds, blog posts, podcast widgets, etc. "Students seem to be using especially their blog as the expression of their academic identity."
In my graduate proseminar on media theory and methods, I spend a great deal of time getting students to think about how they can draw on their own personal experiences and interactions with media to inform their scholarship.
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The blogosphere is coming to a newspaper near you. Beginning April with Boston as the pilot market, Icelandic publishing co. Dagsbrun plans to launch free dailies in 10 U.S. cities. The papers will run blogs alongside the usual newspaper fare. The flagship paper, BostonNOW, hits the streets today. Editor in Chief says bloggers will not only get an outlet for their musings, they'll also break news.
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