I’m taking a Media Theory course at Concordia in their Media Studies MA program, which involves a fair bit of reading. I’ve come to the…
aging idealist. ai and education, open web, open publishing.
I’m taking a Media Theory course at Concordia in their Media Studies MA program, which involves a fair bit of reading. I’ve come to the…
I’m doing a Master’s in Concordia Media Studies program, or at least part of a Master’s (taking just one class at the moment). Below is…
Paul Boutin has a linkbait article up at Wired, about why you shouldn’t bother blogging. My response is: Don’t blog to get known, blog to…
[cross-posted at the Book Oven Blog] Bookkake, is “an entirely print-on-demand, and web-oriented, publisher,” launched by James Birdle. Either he’s a pervert, or a good…
I wrote a long post a while ago about the newspaper business and the challenges for media and knowledge institutions in the digital age. One…
[cross posted at the Book Oven Blog] There’s been much teeth gnashing and lamenting over the impending collapse of the publishing business. See, for instance,…
After a long hiatus due to a wordpress hack, datalibre is back up and running. I did a full reinstall of wp, a full update…
From Usenet, circa 1991 [Link via Karl]: From: timbl@info .cern.ch (Tim Berners-Lee) Newsgroups: alt.hypertext Subject: WorldWideWeb: Summary Date: 6 Aug 91 16:00:12 GMT In article…
The National Film Board of Canada has launched their beta player, with a cornucopia of wonderful documentaries, shorts, animations and abstract films. Established in 1938,…
Evan just launched an open source twitterish thing called identi.ca. He’s got tons of traction in a few short days (that surely have been long…