Month: June 2006

Web 2.0: a pattern library

What Web 2.0 is (from webmonkey ). There is a powerful idea floating around that the internet is moving into a more advanced stage of maturity, a new paradigm called Web 2.0. There's also a lot of hype flying around the idea, as well as a backlash from internet folks who see Web 2.0 as…
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June 14, 2006

internet, media, politics, social media, web2.0
The Internet is our future: BBC Chief

(from The Age newspaper ). BBC director-general Mark Thompson wants to take advantage of the latest technology to turn one of the world's foremost broadcasters into a truly global media brand. He insists that the Internet is the future for the 84-year-old British Broadcasting Corporation but warns that it has to be globally relevant to…
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June 13, 2006

internet, media, social media, technology, web2.0
The Social Networking Goldrush

I discovered a very interesting opensourse 'social software' service called elgg.net today that on the surface, appears to be much better than that ugly old beast 'myspace' (elgg.net has a focus upon learning). This article by one the the writers on the elgg.net system, Ben Ward, tells it all. Whose Space? In April 2005,…
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June 11, 2006

pedagogy, social media, technology, web2.0
iCommons Summit Rio de Janeiro, 23-25 June, 2006

“Towards a global digital commons” (From iCommons.org ). The past few years has seen the burgeoning of a number of initiatives aimed at opening the fields of creativity, science and knowledge in communities around the world. Practitioners from these movements currently identify themselves as falling within a particular community – ‘free and open source software’,…
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June 10, 2006

events
When you are hot, you’re hot!

Youtube is creating it’s own ‘starsystem’ based on hits, word-of-mouth, and cross-media promotion. Check out this dance video. It’s sort of funny. More in the Age newspaper >>
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June 7, 2006

media, social media, video, web2.0
data visualisation & visual culture – information aesthetics

data visualisation & visual culture – information aesthetics I just found a fantasic site, that like the Atlas of Cyberspace, maps dataflow on the Internet (thanks to Lev Monovich for the link). The field is called 'infor aesthetics…check it out!
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June 6, 2006

internet, media, web2.0

Month: June 2006

Web 2.0: a pattern library

The Internet is our future: BBC Chief

The Social Networking Goldrush

iCommons Summit Rio de Janeiro, 23-25 June, 2006

When you are hot, you’re hot!

data visualisation & visual culture – information aesthetics