Monthly Archives: February 2007
More Lessig and DMCA
Here is an interesting videocast from Cranky Geeks http://www.crankygeeks.com/2006/07/cranky_geeks_special_the_dmca.html Lawerence Lessig talks about the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) and how it is possibly one of the worst laws on the books. As he explains, we are losing more … Continue reading
What if class were like a chat
This is right out of my eTech presentation. If you have ever taken an online class with a chat component, the video should ring true. Here are the points I made about chats in online classes. Chats Inefficient Difficult for … Continue reading
Free Culture
If you haven’t watched/listened to Lawerence Lessig, here is a presentation that is worth your time. http://randomfoo.net/oscon/2002/lessig/free_culture.swf (Flash) http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/policy/2002/08/15/lessig.html (HTML) The presentation can be summed up in the refrain of a song that he wrote for the presentation. Creativity and … Continue reading
Tagging and Tag Clouds
Here’s an interesting report from PEW on tagging. In Decemeber of last year they found that 28% of Internet users are taggers and 7% of us tag on a daily basis. If you are familiar with del.icio.us, you are probably … Continue reading