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• McLuhan tape rescue

  
  Joho the Blog — Authority: 611
  I have not had a chance to listen to this — it’s Thanksgiving here in the US — but StarLarvae has found, digitized, and posted a talk by Marshall McLuhan at Johns Hopkins from the 1970s. Could be fascinating…
  1 week ago

• When the crowd is racist at Google

  
  Joho the Blog — Authority: 611
  If you search Google Images for “Michelle Obama” (no quotes), the first image you’ll see is a poorly photoshopped picture of her as an ape. You’ll also see a Google Ad on that page that links to Google’s explanation of why such a blatantly racist photo is the top-ranked one at Google Images. It says, ...
  1 week ago

• Visualizing the decline of empires

  
  Joho the Blog — Authority: 611
  Visualizing empires decline from Pedro M Cruz on Vimeo . Wait for it. Blobs disgorging.
  1 week ago

• Will books survive? A scorecard…

  
  Joho the Blog — Authority: 611
  New media generally don’t replace old media, as Marshall McLuhan pointed out. After TV we still have radio. After telephones we had telegrams for a good long while. So what about books? After we have networked digital books, we’ll still have and produce physical books. But will physical books be as ubiquitous and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Cory Doctorow in support of copyright

  
  Joho the Blog — Authority: 611
  In this edition of Radio Berkman, Cory Doctorow argues in favor of copyright … the part of copyright that protects the rights of readers to own (and not just license) books. It being Cory, the discussion covers topics such as the way in which books are like dogs and his sentimental attachment to his digital ...
  2 weeks ago

• Two long posts well worth reading

  
  Joho the Blog — Authority: 611
  Ethan Zuckerman ponders what good is knowing if it doesn’t lead to effective action…and he isn’t asking this rhetorically. You want to read this because Ethan himself is an extreme knower, an extreme care-er, and a full time agent of change. I found that this post caused me to have an internal dialogue in which ...
  2 weeks ago

• OMG. I disagree with Umberto Eco!

  
  Joho the Blog — Authority: 611
  It makes me very nervous to disagree with Umberto Eco because he is so fathomlessly smart. But I think in this case I do. Sort of. There’s a fabulous interview with Eco in Spiegel (in English) about why he loves lists. He is characteristically pithy, provocative and wise. A crucial paragraph, from the beginning: ...
  2 weeks ago

• Google Books Settlement 2.0?

  
  Joho the Blog — Authority: 611
  Google has announced a revised settlement [ redlined pdf faq pdf ] that it hopes will address the concerns raised by the Department of Justice and many other groups . Here’s a summary of the summary Google provides [ pdf ], although IANAL and I encourage you to read the summary, which is written in non-legal ...
  2 weeks ago

• Lego blocks unmiscellanized

  
  Joho the Blog — Authority: 611
  Giles Turnbull at the Morning News reports on his research interrogating (gently) children from different families about what they call various Lego pieces . Quite interesting in its own taxonomic way, and a topic that’s amusing even just to contemplate.
  3 weeks ago

• Jay Rosen’s 10 Press Commandments/Tweets

  
  Joho the Blog — Authority: 611
  Derek Barry blogs Jay Rosen ’s keynote at the Media140 in Sydney. Jay gave his ten commandments (in the form of tweets) for press in the age of the Internet. (Jay apparently noted my post on transparency and objectivity , which Derek looked at and thought was “ironically anonymous.” I never considered ...
  3 weeks ago

• ethanz blogs, well, me

  
  Joho the Blog — Authority: 611
  I’ve been honored with one of Ethan Zuckerman’s incredible liveblog postings . I gave a 45 min talk at the Berkman Center yesterday. I spoke quickly, waved my hands a lot, and spewed. [Rough draft here .] Even so, Ethan was able to commit an amazing act of streaming journalism, with very few places where I ...
  3 weeks ago

• Ariziona rules metadata is part of public documents

  
  Joho the Blog — Authority: 611
  The Supreme Court of Arizona has ruled that the metadata included in electronic doucments is covered by the public records law. If the state has to make the document available, it also has to make the metadata available. The court reasoned analogically: “It would be illogical, and contrary to the policy of ...
  4 weeks ago

• Why sending large attachments sucks, but we’ll keep doing it anyway

  
  Joho the Blog — Authority: 611
  The Google Operating System blog (independent of Google) has a useful post explaining why it’s a bad idea to send large attachments , even though Google now lets you attach files up to 25MB in size. The reasons the post gives have to do with how inefficient attachments are for the system: They get expanded and ...
  4 weeks ago

• FRom the Berkman Center

  
  Joho the Blog — Authority: 611
  Some posts from Berkpeople this week that I thought I’d call out: Dan Gillmor responds to a Washington Post op-ed that calls for federal subsidies to support local news gathering. Andrew Moshirnia at the Citizen Media Law Project opens his piece on the MPAA’s attempt to make some TV content un-recordable ...
  6 weeks ago

• FCC’s Net Neutrality discussion board

  
  Joho the Blog — Authority: 611
  The FCC has put up a site — openinternet.gov — where anyone (after registering with a valid email address) can post an idea, or vote existing ideas up or down. I love the idea of the feds opening discussions up, although, I am not convinced that this particular implementation achieves its presumed aims. But, ...
  6 weeks ago

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