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It seems fair to ask how long accessibility of this info is likely to continue. I do not mean that it may be lost from the Internet but, that we may lose the ability to interpret it. Even if we have skirted this problem in the past by rendering info into printed form or microfilm the complexity of digital objects is increasing so it won't be adequate simply to print information.
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John Seely Brown was a computer enthusiast since before most people knew what personal computers were. HIs work as former director of the Xerox Corporation’s famed Palo Alto Research Center landed him in the computer Industry Hall of Fame. I sat down with Mr. Brown at a recent event celebrating the history of NSFNet, a precursor of today’s Internet, and recorded this podcast interview, in which he talks about how computer networks — and now Web 2.0 — are radically changing education.
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“We are in a fragmenting culture,” she wrote, “where our certainties of even a few decades ago are questioned and where it is common for young men and women who have had years of education to know nothing about the world, to have read nothing, knowing only some speciality or other, for instance, computers.”
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Mr. Vaidhyanathan, an associate professor of media studies and law at the University of Virginia, argues that Google’s library-scanning project could cause a copyright catastrophe by casting doubt on fair-use doctrine. Fair use is typically threshed out on a case-by-case basis, the scholar says, but Google is asking courts to issue broad rulings on the doctrine
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Blogging offers then the type of solution to the private/public dichotomy that Arendt dreads. It does not release the passion of private life into the public, but deprives the private of its fascination and invests the public with a continuous repetition of identical personal experiences.
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Media Predict amounts to a virtual stock market for manuscripts, television pilots, rock bands and the like. Traders with the equivalent of $5,000 in fantasy cash buy shares in the material they believe in. Whatever rises on this prediction market ought in theory to be the things entertainment moguls should buy and back.
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I'm an academic but I'm also a blogger. For me, these are separate identities. I write formal papers that I spend months trying to find the language to properly express what's going on. [On my blog] I write in an off-the-cuff manner, trying to paint impressions rather than nuance. Unfortunately, many feel as though a blog must be formal & then they project this view onto my writing...
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Negative op-ed about danah boyd's myspace/facebook class division blog.
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Seidman’s simple thesis is that in this transparent world “how” you live your life and “how” you conduct your business matters more than ever. “The persistence of memory in electronic form makes 2nd chances harder to come by,” writes Seidman. “In the information age, life has no chapters or closets; you can leave nothing behind & you have nowhere to hide your skeletons. Your past is your present.
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In two posts on Britannica Blog, Mr. Gorman, fmr pred of American Library Association, has launched a broadside against all of “Web 2.0,” a term applied to a range of Web sites that encourage interaction and collaborative work. “The life of the mind in the age of Web 2.0 suffers,” he writes, “from an increase in credulity and an associated flight from expertise.”
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It seems fair to ask how long accessibility of this info is likely to continue. I do not mean that it may be lost from the Internet but, that we may lose the ability to interpret it. Even if we have skirted this problem in the past by rendering info into printed form or microfilm the complexity of digital objects is increasing so it won't be adequate simply to print information.
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