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Digital media, Jeff Jarvis: Let's junk the myths and celebrate what we've got | Media | The GuardianIt never fails. I'll be talking with a group about the amazing opportunities of the internet age and inevitably someone will pipe up and say, "Yes, but there are inaccuracies on the internet."
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That's right; you heard me. Here are – count 'em – one hundred reasons why Linux beats Windows.
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With or without the cooperation of television networks, your favorite TV shows have moved to the internet in a big way.
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On average, children spend four-and-a-half hours a day using television, video games and computers. Yet children are not provided with the tools needed to evaluate and analyze the media messages they see.
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The short URL you create above will be public and everyone will be able to see the traffic statistics it gets.
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Online collaborative environment to facilitate brainstorming, demonstrations, etc.
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Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies Knowledge, Skills and Tools for the Learning 2.0 Age
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Create, manage, and share personalized contact pages so people can learn about you, and send you a message by submitting a form. Use the contact page as your online business card.
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Welcome To the Math Warehouse–a web site dedicated to dynamic Math lessons, demonstrations and interactive activities.
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Google tips, tweaks, and tidbits…
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Mathematicians at UCLA have discovered a 13 million-digit prime number, a long-sought milestone that makes them eligible for a $100,000 prize.
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We've picked 50 of what we think are the most significant moments, in ten categories spanning almost 40 years of Internet history:
Perfection
September 28, 2008 — dougpeteYou know, if you waited for perfection, few things, if anything, would ever come to fruition.
From a software perspective, we’d never have to learn words like “Alpha” or “Beta”.
Think what we would have computer-wise if we waited until they were perfect.
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That’s right. Nothing.
No Internet Explorer. No Firefox. No Google Earth. No Microsoft Office. No OpenOffice.
In fact, as I noodle over this, I can’t think of a single thing that is Version 1.0 and complete with no enhancements in sight.
No Wikipedia. No Grolier Encyclopedia. No Science Textbooks.
Things are always changing and getting better. They get more mature; have new features; more content accuracy; enhanced safety features…
When you talk to folks about the Internet, the flaws are quick to be identified. Indeed, the Internet is no more perfect than Internet Explorer 1 or a Science Textbook or Encyclopedia that includes Pluto as a planet.
Jeff Jarvis from the United Kingdom’s “The Guardian” has a very interesting article in tomorrow’s paper. In the article, Jeff takes on the acknowledged flaws of using the Internet in his article “Let’s junk the myths and celebrate what we’ve got”. It’s a great article written from a practical, common sense point of view.
I highly recommend that you read the article and bookmark it. I’ll bet it gives you ammunition somewhere along the line.
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Vaestro is audio forum software that you can use on your web site for free. Talk to your friends, host interactive podcasts, or use it like an audio blog.
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Even if you're a hyper-organized, task-oriented worker with an expansive mind and endless ambition, you won't get a lot done if your mind and body are demanding you curl up and doze off.
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So, I set out to find 10 news innovations. I found a lot of these products, Web sites and ideas from journalism educators and journalists who had started their own companies, two other popular groups of attendees.
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Moms who tweet: find, follow, lead, learn, love and share
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Google Inc. has publicly released an internal tool that applies Digg-like rankings to meetings, allowing attendees to vote on what questions will be asked.
Math CAN Be Fun
September 27, 2008 — dougpeteIf you think that mathematics can’t be fun, you need to check these out.
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/11/02/hilarious-piechartvi.html
http://infosthetics.com/archives/2008/09/funniest_pie_chart_ever.html
At least *I* thought they were funny!
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Politics in a YouTube World
September 27, 2008 — dougpeteI was undoubtedly part of a group of millions who watched the first debate of the combatants for the US Presidency last night. Since I can’t vote in the US Election, my opinion of the candidates really doesn’t or shouldn’t matter to anyone.
Overall, I did find the debate at points interesting and at points very boring. I perked up when there was talk about foreign policy and how just the use of a country’s name was expected to elicit strong feelings one way or the other. I didn’t see any “Read My Lips” moments and went to bed wishing I’d watched a couple of hours of something else. But, I did see a great deal that proves why we need to teach and learn about media literacy.
In the light of the morning, I started to ponder just how to media would interpret the events and there was a lot to behold.
More than the conventional media though, YouTube was alive with all kinds of purposely edited clips supporting one position or another. Typically, this is done in short little clips taken out of context of the much larger show. The neat thing is that, thanks to the posts to YouTube, I don’t even have to do the editing.
As I enjoyed the morning coffee, I played some of the clips. It dawned on me that I’m doing the exact same thing that media services do. You’ve got these little clips – take the one that supports your position best, edit it and show it and you’re a genius and insightful. Only someone who watched the entire program would know the context but don’t let that get in the way of a good story.
If you can’t get the point across, go for an impartial source like, say, the candidate for vice-president.
Everything becomes an editorial or an opportunity to come across with a strong position. Not part of the debate last night, but Katie Couric interviewed the candidate for VP on the republican side and Jack Cafferty was quick to zero in on this part of the interview.
This is but part of the resources that are available to you. YouTube, for each video, includes links to related videos on the same topic or close to same topic.
It occurs to me that it’s really a shame and a disservice to all of the candidates. Let’s face it; you don’t get to be elected members of government, Senators, or the Governor of a State by default. These are all talented and gifted individuals who have put years into developing their competencies and a record of achievement. To get the message out, they expose themselves on live television answering, without preparation, questions fired at them by a moderator who has had the advantage of a writing team putting together the questions designed to take the interviewee by surprise. Not only that, but they’ll have teleprompters and a backup team ready to come up with probing followup questions. The person with the best preparation and depth of knowledge should certainly rise to the top.
If you don’t have time to understand how elections work, you can always rely on our friends from Commoncraft.
Into the mix, throw in folks who are digitally recording the events prepared to jump onto any little YouTube-ish clip that supports a perspective and it can be posted and debated online before the original show is over. If you don’t have time for the digital remastering, you can get opinions 140 characters at a time here.
It really does make you wonder why anyone would put themselves up for scrutiny in this manner as they head for public office.
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For people who enjoy the simplicity of a typewriter, but live in the digital world. WriteRoom is a full-screen writing environment. Unlike the cluttered word processors you're used to, WriteRoom is just about you and your text.
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We’re filtering hundreds of Twitter updates per minute to create a new source for gathering public opinion about the presidential election and a new way for you to share your thoughts.
A New Venue
September 26, 2008 — dougpeteThings are heating up in Singapore. This weekend features the first ever night race on the Formula 1 calendar. The cars will practice and race at night under heavily lighted conditions.
I’m excited to watch the qualifying and the racing. Why under the lights?
Money drives this extremely expensive sport.
Typically, races on the other side of the globe have a far smaller television viewing audience. After all, depending upon where you are in Europe or North America, the race could be run live at 2:00am. Even the most die hard Formula 1 fan is challenged to watch the race live.
In the good old days, you would just tape the race and watch it on your own time. But, those of us who really enjoy the sport also subscribe to mailing lists of our passion. So often, we check our email only to get spoiler messages which end up ruining the moment.
For better television audiences, the Singapore race will be held at night which puts it mid-afternoon in Europe and in the traditional morning timeslot here in the Eastern Time Zone. We get to see it live. Thanks so much to modern technology.
From a driver’s perspective, they have to appreciate the night running. According to reports, it was 27 degrees and very humid in Singapore. Could you imagine the temperatures and humidity during a mid-afternoon race?
How do the drivers handle things? After all, their bodies are on strict training regimes in this the world’s greatest auto racing series. And, how about night vision?
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Worst and Best
September 30, 2008 — dougpeteIt’s amazing that it doesn’t happen more often or perhaps it does and I just don’t see it.
Twitter is an online environment where you let the world know in 140 characters or less what you’re doing. Most social networking websites feature that sort of thing but that’s all that Twitter is about so there are no other distractions. With all of the people posting comments, I was suppose that it was bound to happen.
One of the folks that I follow was outraged by a comment that another made about pitbulls and lipstick. I’m sure that it was in reference to a comment made by the Republican Vice-President candidate but, regardless, it had an unfortunate fallout.
On the best side, yesterday was the beginning of the New Year for those of the Jewish faith. The greeting of “L’Shana Tova” is appropriate at this time of introspection. It was a warm feeling to see this greeting go from friend to friend.
Both comments are very timely and the links above will take you to Twitter’s search and let you see exactly what is being talked about with both topics.
In both cases, it does give us pause to think before we post. The message, and subsequent reaction, is available for everyone to read. How many times do we admonish students to “think before you post?” Shouldnt’t that apply to us as well?
To perhaps quote Mark Twain, “It is better to be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt”
It is good advice for all posters. In 140 characters, a great deal can be inferred.
Above and beyond all, though, it never hurts to be nice to each other.