Category Archives: Trends

Why New Media is Dead

Programming and Journalism

It’s always wise to follow Dave Winer’s thinking and his links. So here’s a post specifically meant for Beau Anderson.
Whenever journalist-programmer extraordinaire Adrian Holovaty speaks at a conference, newspaper executives approach him to ask, “Where can we find another person like you?” Unfortunately, not a lot of people combine journalism with computer programming [...]

Thinking, Making, Doing

Dan Saffer of Adaptive Path makes a point:
What we’re going to end up with is a generation of “innovators” who are MBAs in MFAs’ clothing, who can neither create or run businesses like entrepreneurs can, nor design products and services like designers can. It’s the worst of both worlds. What we as employers are searching [...]

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 article here.

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 the link.

Web 2.0 at Wikipedia

Web 2.0 is fast becoming the big buzzword of 2007 and is an important concept to the study of New Media. Check it out.

Debate Systems

News of Convinceme.net comes from TechCrunch. A space for argument, audience feedback, and much more. Currently, Technology is the largest tag.
Are systems like Convinceme participatory? Or are they more about encouraging traditional media experience?