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Innovative online journalism educators (particularly those under 25) may be interested in MacArthur’s $2 million of awards in its second Digital Media & Learning Competition. Awards “to innovators shaping the field of digital media and learning” will be given in two categories: “1.

Posted by enkerli on August 27, 2008 danah “zephoria” boyd is blogging about the conversation over drinking age in the United States. apophenia: Dionysus and the Amethyst Initiative. As boyd is relatively well-known, her blogging about this can have interesting effects in terms of generating “buzz.” Her blogging the issue might help me as I follow my previous post up with some further comments.

‘Rebooting America: Ideas for Redesigning American Democracy for the Internet Age‘ is an anthology of forty four essays by some really smart people on how to use communications technology to engage (young) people in civic issues – The Personal Democracy Forum presents an anthology of forty-four

sun light, Ms. Albright, first spider I see tonight I went for a walk this morning, doing sun salutations, looking at the dew, laughing as spider webs swayed out of focus… and this afternoon, digital scholar of note danah Boyd Twittered from the Knight Commission gathering in Aspen; “listening to madeleine albright talk about her pins.

Are “cheat codes” a symbol of impatient multi-taskers incapable of working through frustration that need to leap frog over the hard part of life? Or a conduit to open new challenges at higher levels of engagement at a self-motivating pace? With fuzzy ethics, blurred boundaries and zig-zags aplenty in immersive gaming environs, I’d say “cheats” is a loaded term in and of itself.

danah boyd just posted a “request for brain-fodder” from her readers, and I played along by posting the below (or trying to - maybe it’s being moderated, maybe it was spammed, maybe some cyber-Cerberus ate it on the banks of the thread).  It’s a question I’ve been turning over for a while now, and

My head is being thrown for a whirlwind as I try to catch up on some posts from Danah Boyd on apophenia.  In this post, Danah talks about the difference between Social Network Sites and Social Networking Sites.

Here's the clip of me on the O'Reilly Factor talking about MySpace - March 30 2006

“I want to stress that this book is not, and never was, intended to replace any textbooks of history that may serve a very different purpose at school. I would like my readers to relax, and to follow the story without having to take notes or to memorise names and dates.

Selected links from my del.icio.us feed: Blog-related danah boyd’s research on social networking sites Questions about target audiences for newspaper websites (Guardian) - a more coherent and focused article than I managed here, where I raised several questions about the measurements and content