links for 2007-09-01
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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.
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“…It doesn’t look all that interesting, but actually is very important — it dramatically lowers the barrier for artists who want their work to be part of the permanent record of free culture. Of course choosing a Creative Commons license is built-in
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“is both obvious and rather subtle. … a Net within the Net, one that’s everything the larger Net is not. Facebook is cleanly designed and has a classy, upmarket feel to it–a whiff of the Ivy League still clings.”
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“Television programmes such as Heroes will not be available for download on iTunes in the US, after broadcaster NBC Universal ended its deal with Apple. Apple said that NBC had demanded more than double its previous wholesale price for its programmes.”
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Even though NBC’s deal with Apple doesn’t expire until the end of the year, Apple has pulled the plug on NBC programmes early and won’t be selling any more NBC at all! (This means Battlestar Galactica: Razor won’t be available on iTunes either!!)
The Simpsons Star Wars Opening
I gather this has been around for a month at least, but I thought this mash of The Simpsons and Star Wars by Rich Cando (of Dude Films fame) was too good not to share:
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links for 2007-08-31
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Lectopia’s new website, having moved on from UWA now that they’re part of Echo360 along with Anystream.
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A “Spider-man” suit that enables its wearer to scale vertical walls like the comic and movie superhero could one day be a reality, according to a study.
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“The academic union has launched Federal Court action against Curtin University of Technology over alleged censorship and blocking of union emails to staff. “
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G’day Gawker: “Allure Media, which next week will launch its fourth blog since April, also has the licence to launch local versions of the Gawker Media portfolio of high-profile US blogs such as tech blog Gizmodo and celebrity gossip blog Defamer.”
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Examines the body as a boundary concept in science fiction films on the 90s: mainly the Alien and Star Trek franchises.
Australian Blogging Conference: 28 September 2007
The big news of the day is that The Australian Blogging Conference, a fabulous-looking free one-day event exploring everything about blogging in Australia (including education and Creative Commons!) now has a date: Friday, 28 September 2007 in sunny Brisbane! All of the details are here. I’d write more, but I’m now running around to see if I can get myself from Perth to Brisbane for the day of the conference!
Update: I’ve successfully organised flights and my benevolent university has agreed to part with me for the day (yes, the day, so I’ll be on red-eye flight at midnight Thursday flight!) so Aussie BloggerCon here I come! 🙂
links for 2007-08-29
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A case against Blackboard: It’s slow; has a clunky instructor interface; isn’t easily extendable; leads to a homogeneous student online experience; doesn’t talk to the world outside the university well; and costs too much.
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“Video-sharing website YouTube has met with harsh criticism in Germany for hosting clips that incite racial hatred, according to a news report due to be broadcast on German public TV late on Monday.”
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Wonderful fictional website for the Yamagato coroporation, featuring a mini-documentary on the “Sword Saint”, narrated by John Rhys-Davies, promoting the TV series Heroes. [Via]
US Tweens and Teens Talk Education while participating in Online Social Networks
JD Lasica points to an interesting new report from the US National School Boards Association entitled Creating & Connecting /Research and Guidelines on Online Social — and Educational — Networking. The report focusing on ‘tweens’ and teens, and has some really important notes about the role of social networking in forming learning communities and even casual connections between online presence and learning.
As this graph shows, more than half US tweens and teens have discussed education in online social networking:
Likewise, many tweens and teens are not just discussing and downloading, but also creating, uploading and participating in creative projects:
Again we are reminded that education in the twenty-first century has to think about the digital literacies of students and how to allow those literacies to develop in our curricula.
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