Category: Blogs | Social Networks | New Media
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Everything, Pixelated
I’m still very much enjoying Jaron Lanier’s You Are Not A Gadget manifesto and have been especially struck by his thesis that the philosophy of computationalism – the theory that everything can be coded – is actually flawed. A totally pixelated and bit-rated world would be a lesser world… but that doesn’t make this video…
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Is a Blog a Conversation? | Press Complaints | Racism
Interesting storm blown up over the Press Complaints Commission’s censure of a piece written by right-wing blogger Rod Liddle in The Spectator recently. In it he wrote that “overwhelming majority” of London’s violent crime was carried out by young, African-Caribbean men. In his evidence to the PCC he provided statistics that confirmed that certainly a…
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Paying For Content?
News International confirmed today that their papers in the UK will move to a subscription-based service in the coming months, starting with The Times and moving on to other titles such as The Sun. I’m no supporter of Murdoch or NI at all, but I do have some sympathy for the model they are trying…
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Playing Video Games on Coke | Empathy | Self Awareness
For anyone interested in video gaming – whether as players themselves or simply vicariously as a cultural phenomena – Tom Bissell’s confessional in today’s Observer is essential reading. After years wasted playing Grand Theft Auto on cocaine, he concludes: Once I wanted games to show me things I could not see in any other medium.…
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Education and Insurrection
At the British Council tomorrow as part of a roundtable discussion on technology in education put together by SecEd magazine and Dell. Any thoughts on how social networks, new media or the ‘noosphere’ might impact education delivery, do drop me a note and I’ll raise them. Then straight from there to Belfast to join up…
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This Is Not A Status Update: I Am Committed To The Long Form
Interesting piece of research out today from Pew Internet and The American Life Project which shows that longer forms of online writing are giving way to micro-blogging and status updates: Amanda Lenhart, a senior researcher for Pew and the lead author of the study, told the Associated Press that the ability to do status updates…