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The meat of Facebook

16-May-10

danah boyd wrote a blog post arguing that Facebook ought to be regulated like a utility. What exactly it means to be a utility, and why utilities ought to be regulated in general, is not the main focus of her piece, and she adds in an addendum that the issue is not so much that [...]

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Tensions between disciplinary and media instruction

22-Oct-09

I’ve been talking with a colleague about coming up with a mission statement for our educational technology program, so as to better position ourselves to assess our successes and failures. We’ve got a ways to go before we’ll have anything approaching a final version, but the brainstorming conversations we’ve had so far have been fruitful. [...]

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How the internet works: A case study

07-Sep-09

11:09am: Brooklynite posts free desk on craigslist 11:19am: A robot tweets the listing 11:21am: The tweet shows up in one of my Tweetdeck columns, set to monitor tweets mentioning my neighborhood 11:49am: Fifty pounds, four blocks, two sore arms, and one helpful passerby later, I have a new desk

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Doctorow on ethics and copyright

20-May-09

I’m posting this passage from Cory Doctorow’s generally awesome discussion of copyright to Microsoft because it’s too long to tweet: Copyright isn’t an ethical proposition, it’s a utlititarian one. There’s nothing *moral* about paying a composer tuppence for the piano-roll rights, there’s nothing *immoral* about not paying Hollywood for the right to videotape a movie [...]

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Mashups, authorship, and audience

04-May-09

At the BLSCI Symposium last week (see the previous post for more info), I had the good fortune to work a bit with Gardner Campbell, including attending his afternoon workshop titled “Speaker, Listener, Network: The Concept of Audience in a Web 2.0 World”. The main thrust of the talk was that Web 2.0 technologies, and [...]

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