Archive for September, 2007
Monday, September 10th, 2007
I’m at the Learning Futures Symposium today and tomorrow. I’m not blogging summaries of sessions because, to be fair, that’s often quite dull. However, I thought I’d take the opportunity to take the conference discussions to springboard some observations or thoughts that occurred during these interactions…
Insight #1: There is a ...
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Saturday, September 8th, 2007
wikirage: What's hot now on wikipedia
What's hot (and hot means lots of edits) in the last hour, day, week or month? That's what wikirage can tell you.
(tags: wikipedia wiki)
For iPhone Owners, an Apology and a Credit [New York Times]
"A day after it cut the price of its top-of-the-line iPhone, ...
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Thursday, September 6th, 2007
On the CC-Community list Jessica Coates has posted links from the recent Sydney Law Review where, among other cool things, they created some parody advertisements based on the patronizing 'Piracy is Wrong' ads which play in Australian cinemas and are at the front of many legitimately-purchased Australian DVDs. Each ...
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Thursday, September 6th, 2007
Update: NBC Content Goes Unboxed [NewTeeVee]
"Looks like Amazon.com is the big winner in the NBC vs. iTunes spat: NBC has decided that its content will appear on Unbox, Amazon’s digital video download service." (This includes Heroes and Battlestar Galactica.)
(tags: convergence apple amazon battlestargalactica)
Cory Doctorow: DRM vendors are pushing the impossible ...
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Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
Code crack opens the iPhone floodgates [The Age]
"Australians are thumbing their noses at Apple's 2008 launch date for the iPhone, importing the device from the US and hacking it to work on local networks. The hacks, unveiled just over a month ago and extensively documented online..."
(tags: australia apple iphone hack ...
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Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
Google starts paying for news [The Age]
"Internet search leader Google has begun hosting material produced by The Associated Press and three other news services on its own website instead of only sending readers to other destinations."
(tags: google internet news convergence monopoly)
Anorexics snared in web trap [The Age]
"Dangerous eating disorders are ...
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Monday, September 3rd, 2007
I'm attending four conferences or symposia across the next four weeks. In a perfect world, each will come with details blogging; however, if I don't get around to writing much for a few weeks, here's why ... [X] Learning Futures Symposium - 10 & 11 September, Canberra - This is a ...
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Monday, September 3rd, 2007
Sgt. Pepper's Mid Life Crisis [Mashuptown.com]
40th Anniversary of Sgt Pepper's, Mashup Tribute Featuring mashups from CCC, Go Home Productions, Semato, DJ Earlybird, Jimmie Jammes, Voicedude, Soundhog and Mr. Encrypto. (Nice!)
(tags: mashup mp3 beatles music)
To Save Themselves, US Newspapers Put Readers to Work [Wired]
Jeff Howe reports on the efforts ...
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Sunday, September 2nd, 2007
The Seven Steps to Getting a Job in Television [FlowTV ]
Alan McKee from QUT gives some useful advice for those starting out looking for careers in television (based on the Australian experience, but the advice is universal, and quite sound.)
(tags: tv television career education)
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Saturday, September 1st, 2007
YouTube Agrees UK Music Royalty Deal [New York Times]
Google have paid the UK MCPS-PRS Alliance an undisclosed sum (probably a very large undisclosed sum!) to the rights to 10 million piece of music for use on the British version of YouTube.
(tags: youtube google music online uk)
Internet Archive web-based upload [Creative ...
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