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Cyberspace

danah boyd‘s piece It’s not Cyberspace anymore resonates strongly. I feel what she wrote, and the short article will be material for my class of New Media inf115, which has a subtitle of Reclaiming the Web. This week EFF members celebrate … Continue reading

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I Love Babylon

Plaque with face of the demon Humbaba | Babylonian | Old Babylonian | The Metropolitan Museum of Art I love Babylon. This image, together with 400,000 more is available as a free resource for non-commercial use. Here.

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Pitching Control

This ad on Campus Technology worries me. It’s from a company who I believe was on the road to extintion: Real Networks. Remember RealPlayer? They developed a product, named Helix. Their pitch goes like this: Stream lectures. Archive athletic events. … Continue reading

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Martha Burtis on Yahoo! Pipes

Last Thursday, March 31st, my students from #nmd2011 and #mcw2011 and I had the pleasure of a beautiful and gracious online class by Martha Burtis from UMW. The class was on Yahoo! Pipes, since I wanted my students to have … Continue reading

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#letsbuydelicious #2 & #ds106 #webstories

What better occasion to talk about Delicious’ demise and Yahoo’s foul sale than ds106’s latest assignment. In my last post I told myself (and a few have agreed through Twitter) that there is no reason why some crowd of people … Continue reading

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