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Smart Mobs
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The UK government recently unveiled the Digital Economy Bill, which has prompted Alan Moore to engage in a retrospective regarding 20th Century [old school] politicians, ethics, culture, commerce and copyright law. Moores thoughts inspire reflection on how networked [digital] economics is fundamentally different to the straight lines of a mass media culture and analogue business models. I encou...
11-24
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A FT.com article titled Microsoft and News Corp eye web pact describes early discussions of the media company being paid to de-index its news websites from Google. This one will be fascinating to watch because it would be the software titan (Microsoft) attempting to dethrone the network gorilla (Google) by ripping away a hunk of the gorillas emergent network and trying to grow the hunk within in t...
11-24
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I have persuaded Jim Fishkin to put the introductory chapter of his important new book, When The People Speak: Deliberative DemocracyPublic Consultation online. For those who think that the idea of improving the publish sphere by putting together citizens with varying political views in the presence of solid information and polling methodology is crazy idealism, Fishkin offers a wealth of empirica...
11-21
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A MacArthur Foundation article titled Selling Museums to a Tough Audience: Teens describes a meeting where 23 leading museum people commiserated about the rejection of museums by the youth: Even though this group was hardly the ostriches, they all grappled with the constraints of the current system—from physical structures to limited budgets. What happens to intellectual copyrights? How do you dig...
11-20
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A New York Times Technology report today titled Library in a Pocket takes a look at the how smartphones are being used to read books. This trend is so strong that one out of every five new iPhone apps released last month was a book. From the article:Many people who want to read electronic books are discovering that they can do so on the smartphones that are already in their pockets — bringing a wh...
11-18
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