As a follow-up to earlier posts on this topic: Microsoft has filed a large-scale patent application related to RSS. (A news story here and Dave Winer’s post on it here.) Microsoft’s patent application, (published on December 21, 2006, filed on June 21, 2005 — though those may not be the most relevant facts in terms … Read more
Derek Slater notices, as others have, that Digital Natives only use email for “formal” activities, liking corresponding with adults and turning in homework. Informal interaction is through internal communications mechanisms in Facebook or MySpace or on IM. I wonder if it’s push (e-mail is less useful than it once was, plagued by spam and so … Read more
Mike Arrington is reporting that he’s received a cease and desist letter from YouTube. Mike writes: “Buried in my email this evening I found a cease and desist letter from an attorney at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, representing their client YouTube. We’ve been accused of a number of things: violating YouTube’s Terms of Use, … Read more
Just post-relaunch of StyleFeeder, Kerry Purcell of the Boston Herald has a round-up piece on cool fashion sites, including SF. (Please see my disclosures regarding my role in Top Ten Media, Inc., the parent of SF.)
Congrats to Phil and team for the relaunch on StyleFeeder. A cool site just got a whole lot cooler. In addition to the new look, check out the ratings and recommendations features. (SF is part of the Top Ten Media family, of which I am chairman; updates as necessary at my disclosures page.)
At St. Hilda’s and St. Hugh’s today, I’m talking with an extraordinary group of teachers at a NYSAIS workshop. The topic is using technology in teaching. We’re going to build a list of resources we’ve talked about today for posterity. Who’s first? – Eduforge.org A meta resource for technology and education, including sharing of information … Read more
The Boston Globe’s Irene Sege, who has been hanging around the real and virtual Berkman Center these past few months, has a thoughtful piece on Second Life in education and politics. It features Rebecca Nesson and her work in Cyberone, a class she’s co-teaching with her dad (eon, Dean of Cyberspace) and her collaborator Rodica … Read more
Tim Armstrong, former Berkman fellow and now a prof at the U of C, writes: “… the permanence of networked information has costs, too, which (like the benefits) are only beginning to be explored. Members of the generation just behind mine, who have grown up reflexively creating and posting information online, are learning that digital … Read more
John Bracken isn’t so sure that watching the baseball playoffs on TV is the best idea. I’m with him. I still prefer the sound of the Red Sox on the radio to any other way of experiencing the game, other than at Fenway itself.
Dave Winer: “It’s easier for readers to become reporters than it is for reporters to become readers.”