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August 6, 2007
Andy Carvin has a good post at the PBS Teachers site touting One Web Day, which is coming up on Sept. 22. It’s a day to celebrate the Web, the way EarthDay is a day to celebrate the Earth.
What are you going to on One Web Day to make the Web just a little bit better?
[Tags: onewebday andy_carvin susan_crawford earthday]
July 29, 2007
Ed Cone’s published an interview with me in the Greensboro News-Record that pushes on the philosophical side harder than most. Thanks, Ed! (Note: Ed has provided a backup link in case the newspaper’s breaks.) [Tags: everything_is_miscellaneous ed_cone aristotle ]
July 18, 2007
The Wall Street Journal online has published an exchange between Andrew Keen (“The Cult of the Amateur”) and me. The full version is here. The condensed version is here. (I recommend the full version.) [Tags: andrew_keen web2.0 cult_of_the_amateur everything_is_miscellaneous ]
July 17, 2007
Susan Mernit has a nice post about what we can learn from Facebook, Twitter, et al., even if you think they’re just fads.
My overall lesson from such sites – much in line with Susan’s — is that we really enjoy one another. [Tags: susan_mernit facebook twitter everything_is_miscellaneous ]
The Open Library project has opened the doors on its demo, and it is a big, big deal. Read the about page (written by Aaaron Swartz) to see how exactly promising this project is.
From my provincial point of view, the Open Library Project addresses the miscellaneous nature of books: Lots of editions, lots of variants, lots of relationships.. So, include everything you can and enable the creation of rich metadata.
This is exactly the sort of infrastructure of meaning Everything Is Miscellaneous is so excited about. [Tags: everything_is_miscellaneous libraries metadata wikis ]
July 16, 2007
Dan Gillmor has posted a terrific report on the past year in citizen media. Dan is a partisan, but is so innately fair and honest that this report from the front lines is invaluable. [Tags: citizen_media citizen_journalism dan_gillmor media journalism ]
July 12, 2007
Jeremy Price passes along a Cat and Girl comic strip he thinks I’ll find amusing. He is correct. (I also like the other one he recommended.)
And to miss the point entirely, although the strip is right in pointing out that early TV shows didn’t show families watching TV, TV’s did figure in some of them in interesting, self-reflexive, possibly postmodern ways: In Burns & Allen in particular, George would go upstairs to watch TV to see what Gracie was up to in the show itself. [Tags: tv cat_and_girl comics ]
July 10, 2007
Supernova has posted a video of Clay Shirky’s fantastic opening presentation in which he utters the unspeakable word: Love.
July 9, 2007
Supernova has posted the video of the session I did with Andrew Keen, author of The Cult of the Amateur. [Later: The mp3 version of it is now up.] It begins with my 15-minute version of my Everything is Misc talk, followed by Andrew’s more informal opener, and then us discussion whether the Internet is killing culture. [Tags: andrew_keen supernova2007 supernova07 everything_is_miscellaneous]
June 23, 2007
The eighth and last in my series of Miscellaneous interviews, sponsored by the Berkman Center and Wired, is up. I talk with Richard Sambrook, head of the BBC World Service and blogger. We talk not so much about citizens as journalists as about citizens as those who exercise editorial judgment. How will the BBC compete in a world where we’re busily telling one another what we ought to read…especially as content gets pulled out of the sites themselves? [Tags: richard_sambrook bbc news journalism citizen_journalism everything_is_miscellaneous berkman wired]
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