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This book is about the possibility that Huxley, not Orwell, was right.
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consider the emerging Twitter practice NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen calls "mindcasting." It may begin as just a seed of an idea — a thought about the future of online media, say — tossed out into the germinating medium of the twitterverse, passed along from one Twitter feed to another, critiqued or praised, reshaped and edited, then handed back for fleshing out on a blog, first, and then, perhaps, in a book. It's not that tweet-size sparks of insight haven't always been part of the media ecosystem, in other words. It's just that Twitter now has given them a vastly more exciting social life.
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"Over the past few years I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory. My mind isn’t going—so far as I can tell—but it’s changing. I’m not thinking the way I used to think. I can feel it most strongly when I’m reading. Immersing myself in a book or a lengthy article used to be easy. My mind would get caught up in the narrative or the turns of the argument, and I’d spend hours strolling through long stretches of prose. That’s rarely the case anymore. Now my concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages. I get fidgety, lose the thread, begin looking for something else to do. I feel as if I’m always dragging my wayward brain back to the text. The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle."
"iRadeo is a free online radio platform that allows anyone to stream their MP3 / WAV files. Once installed, iRadeo will automatically detect and stream any supported file format that has been uploaded to the specified directory."
"The book is available for purchase or as a free download. Topics include social media, philosophies of technology, mobile learning, cost decisions about technology, libraries, learner support and more. On a personal note, I appreciated Mohamed Ally's opening chapter on learning theory, including extensive discussion on connectivism. The broad range of subjects, both theoretical and practical, ensures that this publication will continue to be a critical resource for trainers, educators, and students." (elearnspace)
"Do you like the media browser that Apple includes in some of its applications, but wish you could use it from any application? Now you can. Download the free Karelia iMedia Browser and use it whenever and wherever you need to access your library of photos, music, videos, and bookmarks." (Karelia Software)
"Following on themes from his book, Here Comes Everybody, he tells a story that goes like this: We gained lots of free time (a "cognitive surplus") in the 40s and 50s because of shorter workweeks. We squandered the surplus by watching TV sitcoms and the like. Now we're finally waking up from this "collective bender" and putting our energies into better things, like editing Wikipedia. ... I have a number of problems with this story." (Question Technology)
I started telling her about the Wikipedia article on Pluto. You may remember that Pluto got kicked out of the planet club a couple of years ago, so all of a sudden there was all of this activity on Wikipedia. The talk pages light up, people are editing the article like mad, and the whole community is in an ruckus--"How should we characterize this change in Pluto's status?" And a little bit at a time they move the article--fighting offstage all the while--from, "Pluto is the ninth planet," to "Pluto is an odd-shaped rock with an odd-shaped orbit at the edge of the solar system."
So I tell her all this stuff, and I think, "Okay, we're going to have a conversation about authority or social construction or whatever." That wasn't her question. She heard this story and she shook her head and said, "Where do people find the time?" That was her question. And I just kind of snapped. And I said, "No one who works in TV gets to ask that question. You know where the time comes from. It comes from the cognitive surplus you've been masking for 50 years." (Clay shirkey)
The report states that "video clips, blogs, podcasts, social networks and RSS are all essential components of the online media diet." (ReadWriteWeb)
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The basic idea was that a class was taught entirely through YouTube - class interactions were filmed and posted, discussions happened through comments, etc. Of course, this design does violate just about every Instructional Design standard in the world. Not surprisingly, the instructor felt like it was a failure. (Edugeek Journal)
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