Media, the Musical – 28 April 2010

Remember Steven Wolfram — here’s his take on music, computational music! http://tones.wolfram.com/about/faqs/generate.html According to a recent Pew study 97 percent of young people play games! http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2003/Let-the-games-begin-Gaming-technology-and-college-students.aspx and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNxOHLTeZc8

Media Mavens, the re-test, 27 April 2010

BEFORE YOU GO SEARCHING OUT THE SECRETS FOR TOMORROW’S TEST, BE AWARE THAT TOMORROW, WEDNESDAY, BY THE END OF CLASS, YOU ARE TO TURN IN (WHICH YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO DO LAST WEEK!) A PARAGRAPH DEFINING AS NEARLY AS YOU CAN, THE “GOAL” OF YOUR COLLABORATION. THIS “DEFINING PARAGRAPH” WILL CONTAIN, WHY YOU CHOSE YOUR [...]

Big Names, the Test, 23 April 2010

Paul Jones John Perry Barlow Vinton Cerf HASTAC Howard Rheingold Danah Boyd Charles Babbage Steve Wozniak Stewart Brand Tim Berners-Lee Chris Anderson Alan Turing Bill Gates Kevin Kelly Cathy Davidson Guglielmo Marconi Vladimir Zworykin

The Future is …. 21 April 2010

The buck stops here: For the guys looking into the future… Here are some futurists to consider: The “cloud” – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqLB99dA48k&feature=player_embedded Why the Web http://howardrheingold.posterous.com/ Here’s the woman Rheingold is talking about – Dana Boyd http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/digitalrevolution/2009/11/rushes-sequences-dana-boyd-int.shtml Democracy of Knowledge and the Public Sphere http://howardrheingold.posterous.com/ Future people want to know about… The Institute for the Future [...]

Oh, Digital Native! 20 April 2010

If you want to make pictures, you’ve got to work: http://www.bbc.co.uk/virtualrevolution/makeyourown.shtml Wouldn’t it have been nice to collaborate with this guy on your viral kitty viddy? http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p006j8n2 Our Destiny is Now Digital http://www.bbc.co.uk/virtualrevolution/3dexplorer_start.shtml What’s happening in Middle School? http://dmlcompetition.net/pligg/story.php?title=484 “Digital Future” collaboration people may want to check out Pranav Mistry on TED video — You [...]

If you stopped talking, you’d learn… 16 April 2010

Your collaborations are part of something larger – http://www.vectorsjournal.org/ What could you make them? Question and answer exercises? Dissertations? Polls? Another reason to consider Twitter: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/twitters_entire_archive_headed_to_the_library_of_c.php

The Next Perfect Thing, 13 April 2010

A little validation from the gods regarding you weblabs. http://ibiblio.org/pjones/ils697/wordpress/?p=36 If you’re making Luke rich, here’s where the money is: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/how-much-do-music-artists-earn-online/ Thought you would be interested in what the Tar Heels saw when they studied YouTube http://ibiblio.org/pjones/ils697/wordpress/?p=29#comments Can you follow the stats? http://mashable.com/2010/04/13/mobile-web-stats/ Interesting iPad demo – http://www.nytimes.com/pages/technology/index.html And this is pretty cool – http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/04/12/business/IPAD.html?ref=technology [...]

Tell Me A Story, Google. 13 April 2004

New uses for Google… story telling, and a new Google ap. Can you do it? http://holykaw.alltop.com/internet-meme-in-the-making-youtube-search-st For those of you working on the iPad, here comes everybody! http://www.crosspollinate.org/view?iframe=http://mashable.com/2010/04/12/google-tablet-htc/

The Final Nine, 12 april 2010

Here’s a group with a new get rich formula – FOUR MILLION VIEWS http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125783271 Here’s a little video that will allow us to begin our work in the final nine weeks of the semester: http://www.kff.org/entmedia/hr012010video.cfm