News on Twitter

Skype on the iPhone?

This article from the New York Times caught my eye this morning.

iPhone 2.0 will turn this phone into an engineering tool, a game console, a free-calls Skype phone, a business tool, a dating service, an e-book reader, a chat room, a database, an [...]

Twitter and Education

Via Techcrunch we have a link to a new product forthcoming that mashes Twitter for educational use [...]

Music & New Media

One more idea for blog posts for today:

Perhaps the most talked-about effects new media has had (and continues to have) is how it has changed music, the music industry, as well as how we experience (listen) it.

From the advent of the CD, MP3s, the iPod, software, recording techniques, and more, how has new media changed music [...]

Post-modern Writing: The Cell Phone Novel

Idea for ongoing blog posts:

Thumbs Race as Japan’s Best Sellers Go Cellular

How does this phenomena relate to the 5 principles of new media and to the concepts of readerly vs. [...]

OU in Second Life

Ohio University is where I did my graduate work (specifically in the College of Fine Arts) and they’ve just entered a new virtual world for adult learning.

Called a “a next-generation learning development environment,” it is quite an interesting project. 

Read the [...]

EPIC 2014 – A “What If” for the future.

A history lesson taken to a futuristic extreme. Is this possible?

Thanks, once again, to Susan Gibb for [...]

Game Genre as Advertising

The new Coke commercial is well-done and interesting to us for so [...]

Play as Marketing

One more example of new media marketing: creating a game out of the marketing [...]