• 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…

  • What is MySociety.org?

    More wonderful innovations in the field of Online Political Communication from Britain. This company recently built an online petition system for ‘No 10’ (this is where the Prime Minister lives if you have never been to Britain or never watched TV). mySociety has two missions. The first is to be a charitable project which builds…