• Game Activism

    Some ten thousand Chinese protestors staged a demonstration on the weekend after a motif resembling a Hinomaru or “rising sun” Japanese flag was seen on a wall at a government office. Such large protests last took place in China two years ago when government-sanction anti-Japanese demonstrations broke out around the country after Japan approved school…

  • Free and Opensourse Alternative to DreamWeaver

    I designed my very first web page on the DreamWeaver and have been trapped in the DreamWeaver world ever since. I have tried other web authoring tools, but none seem to have the same designer friendly functions as DreamWeaver. I’m glad that there is finally an opensourse alternative to DreamWeaver with many of the same…

  • Wikepedia founder launches political site

    Wikipedia founder Jimmy “Jimbo” Wales this week announced the opening of a wiki devoted to hot-button political topics such as gay marriage and environmental protection (link).

  • UNESCO: Charter on the Preservation of the Digital Heritage

    UNESCO has recognised that as an increasing amount of the World’s cultural output is digitised and placed on mediums such as the web, that there is also an increasing need to preserve this culture for future generations. This is from UNESCO’s Charter on the Preservation of the Digital Heritage: “The Charter on the Preservation of…

  • Net Dialogue: Clearing House on Internet Governance

    One of the most useful sites that you will find concerning the complex subject of Internet governance is a ‘clearing house’ site jointly produced by Harvard and Stanford’s Law Schools. They demarcate the various communities of interest and the contested attributes of Internet governance and even suggest why we need Internet governance in the first…

  • What is new about new media?

    1) What is media convergence and how is it facilitated by the Internet? 2) What opportunities does media convergence provide for both the a producer and audience of a newmedia work? (or why is new media new?) Google is an example of a technology company that until very recently, only existed within the realm of…