Books in the Age of the iPad, by Craig Mod, is perhaps the most beautiful and thoughtful post I’ve read in years. In it, Mod argues that the iPad is a universal container for rich media and what he calls “well-formed content”— I’ll let you read the article (you should) to understand what he means. He [...]
I helped slow the web last week by hitting refresh on a number of live blogs during the unveiling of the iPad. The hype and expectations had been almost overwhelming, and pretty much anything that Jobs could have unveiled would have caused some to bemoan the lack of *something*. Here’s my take: it’s a nice [...]
GENERATION M2: Media in the Lives of 8- to 18-Year-Olds
A Kaiser Family Foundation Study. JANUARY 2010
My post headline is purposefully… what’s the word? Inflammatory? Because this report is significant and important, and heralds in a much larger message beyond the report’s main point that “Kids are consuming more media.”
It’s this important:
When the printing press was [...]
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A month into my job at the university, I’d just moved out of my friend’s Sundstrom St. house to give my roommate and his newly-moved-from California fiance some room to nest. So I found a three-month gig house-sitting in the Willy street neighborhood, and started thinking about where I’d live in April. I [...]
…another post from my work blog:
Mashable.com (a great source for recent social media news) reports that Google just added a “Near Me” button to their mobile homepage on Android and iPhone (and I assume also the Nexus One). Clicking on the “Near Me” button brings up search results associated with your location.
Surely, it won’t be [...]
…another post from my work blog:
ommwriter: De-clutter your writing space
Need an uncluttered space to concentrate on writing?
Omm-mg, have I got something for you!
http://www.ommwriter.com/
It’s a very basic Word Processor that takes up your entire screen with one of a number of empty scenes. Not tool bars. No menus (well, they come up when you mouse-over them, [...]
…another post from my work blog:
Pop Quiz! — what’s the hottest emerging technology?
Hint: It’s already being used by more than half the global population.
Hint: It’s the most intimately-connected piece of technology you and your students use.
It’s the mobile phone. You knew that, right? And you knew that its descendent, the SmartPhone (Blackberry, iPhone, Android, Nexus [...]
…another post from my work blog:
Change happens
This article, The Internet Isn’t Just for Computers Anymore, highlights the pace of change in technology. It notes that most of the websites that we take for granted and use daily (or many times a day, in some cases), did not exist 10 years ago.
But it also points out:
One [...]
