Mashable brings us news of Wikia Green that hopes to build
the best resource for citizens of the Earth to learn about the environment and how to live a more sustainable life.
In light of our intro discussion of the memex, how might this be another example of knowledge collection and search? Here’s from the identity [...]
Trends are, we think, important to follow, especially when trends noticeably impact things. This from ReadWriteWeb
No matter which department you’re in, Web 2.0 technologies have had an impact. If you’ve been ignoring their prevalence and adoption, you’re at risk of falling behind in your career and your business is at risk of losing ground [...]
Beau alerts me to this event at CCSU:
Blogger Wars: How the New Media are Changing the Presidential Contest
Panel Discussion and Debate: What’s Hot and What’s Not!
Host: Ned Lamont, adjunct professor of political science and philosophy, CCSU
Panelists:
Dan Gerstein – political communication consultant and communication director for Joe Lieberman
Colin McEnroe – talk show host on WTIC [...]
From the NYT:
“Orality is the base of all human experience,” says Lance Strate, a communications professor at Fordham University and devoted MySpace user. He says he is convinced that the popularity of social networks stems from their appeal to deep-seated, prehistoric patterns of human communication. “We evolved with speech,” he says. “We didn’t evolve [...]
Interesting developments via TechCrunch on the new video social networking and storytelling service Your Truman Show. A little from Duncan Riley
The team behind Your Truman Show is aiming to extend life-on-camera into a network of “tomorrow’s online reality stars, migrating user-generated content from single videos to multi-episode series”. I have absolutely no idea whether they [...]
Something the new media students didn’t think about in their presentations. Yet, to play with puns, was “in the air”
In a paper published today in Science, Soljajic and colleagues describe their lighting of a 60-watt light bulb with energy sent across a seven-foot gap, proving that such a system is indeed possible.
Soljacic began his search [...]
New Media Consortium Campus in Second Life. Very nice exploration:
The Dreaming Methods website has been updated, opening many works to public use. DM offers fantastic examples of works that fuse a number of narrative and digital media methods. For example, The Scrapbook of Anne Sykes. New Media students can spend hours asking questions of The Scrapbook in the context of hypertext structure, editing, [...]
Interesting that this has to come from the BBC. The notion has to do with using the eyes, skills, and tech of those on the ground, “citizen reporters,” to spread the news about disasters or whatever else the government’s not very good at responding to.
Citizens could leave text, video and photos on the site [...]