From 2005, an interesting contextual framing of blogging
On one hand, virtually anyone can start broadcasting songs online; on the other, if regulations are set up early enough, these new broadcasters present a much-needed revenue stream.
Before the Internet, iPhones and flash drives, people jousted over who was into the Pixies when they were still a garage band or who could most lengthily argue the merits of Oasis versus Blur. Now, for all but hardcore rock aficionados, one-upmanship is more likely to center around a television series...
From the Internet to the iPod, technology is bringing rapid advances in memory. What society needs now are new ways to forget.
Over the last year, alleged psychic Uri Geller and his business associate have successfully removed many of these clips from the Web by charging that they violate his copyrights. In the 13-minute NOVA program, Geller only claims ownership of eight seconds, yet that was enough for him to file a "takedown" demand with YouTube, using ...the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
Online virtual worlds could soon be accessible to blind people thanks to research by students at IBM in Ireland.
Each of the five academics interviewed added a unique flavor to these questions of how players move, where single player fits into the picture, and the kinds of games that we’ll be migrating to in the future. While ‘gamer tribes’ weren’t the only thing seen as dragging along gamers, many of these scholars agreed on the importance of people.
They used the Internet to encourage people to wear pink and bought 75 pink tank tops for male students to wear. They handed out the shirts in the lobby before class last Friday — even the bullied student had one. INTERNET USED TO STOP BULLYING OFFLINE.
So, there I was: old enough to remember Voltron, beer in hand, sitting with my laptop, surrounded by (presumed) preteens. Club Penguin plopped me in the town center. Forty or so birds were milling about. Some were dancing, others throwing snowballs. As I gazed upon this scene, I remembered something that I had once read: If your body could stay the same as it was at 12, you would live for hundreds of years. But what about your mind? What if it stayed locked at 12? Club Penguin offers that deeply trippy experience.
To educate myself—and to find out what the target audience for these sites really thinks of them—I organized a focus group of five sixth-graders, all 11 years old. I set up two laptops and let the kids show me their favorites. At times the project seemed like a demonstration for a gender studies class with the boys at one computer, the girls at another. Anna, a budding sociologist, explained, "Most sites for girls are an online world—it's socializing. For boys, it's gaming."
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From 2005, an interesting contextual framing of blogging
On one hand, virtually anyone can start broadcasting songs online; on the other, if regulations are set up early enough, these new broadcasters present a much-needed revenue stream.
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