• Information, Communication, and Society Webcasts

    In collaboration with the Oxford Internet Institute, the editors of the academic peer-reviewed journal Information, Communication, and Society have been producing and archiving webcasts featuring the author(s) of the lead article of selected issues. (check them out…link)

  • PoliticalMashups

    Mashups are created when information is taken out of one or more database/s and then integrated into a web site. This is done through what’s called a public interface or ‘API’ (or by RSS feeds, or by JavaScript). Some well-known examples are the Chicago Crime Map, Weatherbonk, and mappr. I haven’t come across too many…

  • US Presidential Speeches Tag Cloud

    I will have to think about this one and get back to you. I like it a lot, but I have to think about its accuracy; the process is only half the story (and some academics build their career on advancing only half the story) (link)

  • Buy Nothing Day 24-25 November

    Are You a Greedy Pig? (check out the vid) Every November, for 24 hours, we remember that no one was born to shop, we make a small choice to participate by not participating. If you’ve never taken part in Buy Nothing Day, or if you’ve taken part in the past but haven’t really committed to…

  • What is Participatory Culture and Web2.0 ?

    Thanks to Henry Jenkins and Howard Rheingold (link to a USC Annenberg Centre’s blog) We have also identified a set of core social skills and cultural competencies that young people should acquire if they are to be full, active, creative, and ethical participants in this emerging (online) participatory culture: Play — the capacity to experiment…

  • hypertextual video

    Youtube doesn’t really do anything new. It it just the ‘delivery boy’ of online video. But how about this innovation? This is similar to what I was trying to do in my own work 5 years ago with milkbar.com.au. It is what you call ‘hypertextual video’ in that it allows the user to embed links…