• 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…

  • My Bush Would Make a Better President

    This clip was produced by John Power here in Melbourne for Digital Primative. Thanks to AG for the link (link).

  • Student use of Wikipedia

    This thread on the use of Wikipedia in the academy appeared earlier this year on the discussion list Humanist. Here is the link. This message is a request for comment (the humanities version of a RFC). 2006 appears to be the year that undergraduate students discovered Wikipedia in a big way. My colleagues and I…