Invented the mouse, windows, much of the GUI, implemented hypertext and collaborative computing. Early thinking about how computers can help us learn and do.

Classic for history of new and social media, hypertext, internet. The only good use of microfilm ever created. 1945

Seems I've seen these 12 points before - can't recall where, but they are familiar. Anyway, brief, light-weight toss-off article homogenizes The Kids by working backwards from characteristics of some web interactions to characterizing the Coming Workers.

A curated cluster media commons, considering how we take notes - the devices and the technques. #1 on my Instapaper list right now: That's a case where the note is the content. 

Optimistic photo- and voice essay on how to see.

The backstory

New media, used dangerously.

"Is there any more interesting way to think about the topic than the loose and impressionistic manner that it is currently framed?" Of course there is. And the doscussion is just getting started.

" about the burgeoning activities of media artists creating new works or updating versions of their older interactive screen-based projects for Apple's iPhone and iTouch mobile devices.

" about the burgeoning activities of media artists creating new works or updating versions of their older interactive screen-based projects for Apple's iPhone and iTouch mobile devices."

When elearning becomes something other than DE - and they are proud of it.

is longstanding recommendation that they should shut down their print editions and embrace the Web wholeheartedly. “You gotta burn the boats,” he told me, “you gotta commit.” His point is that if traditional media companies don’t burn their own boats, somebody else will.

Death of the Author, Barthes. STYLE AND REPRESENTATION OF HISTORICAL TIME / GEORGE KUBLER. THE AESTHETICS OF SILENCE / SUSAN SONTAG

That we react to them is telling. That we work to articulate a response to them is even more telling. Statement: http://www.brandejs.ca/portfolio/Genpets/What

Set of observations on where twitter is today.

Martin Weller on six principles to keep in mind while designing networked instruction.
1. <embed> is the universal acid of the web – we should build around it.
2. Simple with reach trumps complex with small audience.
3. Sharing is a motivation to participation - so make it easy and rewarding to do.
4. Start simple and let others build on top
5. Providing limitations frames input (Cf twitter, 12seconds, etc)
6. Complexity resides in the network not the application

Excellent overview of uses by and responses to twitter in pro journalism. From ABC Australia.

Fun stuff, with a Wired editor arguing for causation, an academic author arguing a fluke, and commentators arguing both ways. The article is written so that all can have their say, which by my book, is the New Journalism.

An interesting demo of combinatory prose.

Taking Wolfram and his data processor down a notch.

I see in the turning of literal pages—pages bound in literal books—a compelling larger value, and perceive in the move away from the book a move away from a certain kind of cultural understanding, one that I’m not confident that we are replacing, never mind improving upon.

"Dettmer's sculptures invite us to think about deeply-held taboos around the sanctity of books as objects; a conversation that recurs - especially in the context of e-readers - around discussion of digitized text."

Paper persists owing to useful affordances. Easy review of a couple of books, c 2002.

Second of two recent columns dissing twitter as a waste of time. Again, no evidence, a lot of straw arguments, and invoking the usual scary tropes and commonplaces: we aren't reading Great Works, Losing the Craft of the Thank You Note ... Comments from readers show insight.

One of two recent columns on why twitter is a waste of time - the arguments really seem that thin and puritan. It's a diversion from Real Work and Real Contact. Lots of name calling. Lots of fallacies. Little evidence.

After New York University journalism student Alana Taylor wrote her first embed report for MediaShift on September 5, it didn’t take long for her scathing criticism of NYU to spread around the web and stir conversations.

Embedded student reports on NYU: "NYU does not offer the kinds of classes I want. It continues to focus its core requirements around learning how to work your way up the traditional journalism ladder. Here is the thinking I find here:

1. Get an internship at a magazine or newspaper. “This is good for your resume.”
2. Bring the New York Times to class. The hard copy. “It’s the only way to get the news.”
3. Learn how to write for a magazine or newspaper. “Writing for blogs or websites is not journalism.”
4. Become an editor at a magazine or newspaper. “This is the only respectable position.”

An interesting flash-based project, making use of TS: texts, critical studies, computational analysis - and an interesting design

Read an excerpt from Cult of the Amateur in a flash mock mini-book. Wanna see a metaphor?

efore blogs allowed people to offer comment on everything they read and tediously deconstruct arguments paragraph by paragraph for the world to see, people like Adams wrote witty remarks in the margins of their books. Lots of them.

By examining what different participants groups do on social network sites, this paper investigates what Friendship means and how Friendship affects the culture of the sites. I will argue that Friendship helps people write community into being in social n

A superlative resource for Participatory stuff: weblogs, wikis, RSS, social bookmarking. Howard Rheingold

Purdy and Walker look into how undergrads perform research for course work.

Transliteracy might provide a unifying perspective on what it means to be literate in the twenty–first century. It is not a new behavior but has only been identified as a working concept since the Internet generated new ways of thinking about human comm

Commentary version of the Ithaka Report on Univerisity Publishing paper. Contains the original text of the paper and demos how CommentPress works.

Review of NetNewsWire that has extra interest in *how* and *where* and *when* Shawn uses it.

Books -- illustrations - Analogue print in digital

The Emerging Media & Communications (EMAC) area will add a new series of courses to the ATEC degree plan that focus on new forms of Internet based writing and content development.

It's about the content, and the degrees of choices. Constraints are good; they help construct meaning.

PPoint taken through cognitive load theory. Modalites of presentation. Glad this was posted. Trashing PP for poor use is two easy.

Interesting for its (ahem) use of Pachyderm new media authoring system. Essentially yet another repackaging / re-mediation of advice far removed from any particular situation. Focus is on stasis by way of discovering a paradox. The Flash media text is t

"new media and the web specifically supports grammar as the organizing and collecting of texts and knowledge, rhetoric as tools and know-how for political engagement, and dialectic as a method of reflection"

In the name of entertainment, the videos represent academic integrity as the demands of a bobble-headed school marm, while the i"real life" examples are from a nonsense paper and illustrate poor practices.

Wesch. An anthropologist makes a video argument about web 2.0. Solid rhetorical use of new media. Discuss a) the argument: what is it exactly? b) the use of the visual techniques in making the argument.

1937 essay, considering principles that are "useful for the formulation of revolutionary demands in the politics of art."

Scott McCloud, online comics designed as web pages.

writing in digital environments - MSU

Smart article focusing on metaphorical and metonymic relations between modes. good analysis, and good illustration of evalative approach

Jonathan Harris’ 10 x 10 which builds its content from RSS feeds. The piece selects the most frequently used words from the major news networks to assemble an hourly “portrait” of our world. I would argue that this visualization tool represents a ty

"we quickly discovered limitations inherent in the software, which does not allow community participation in the organization of content. Programs like Flickr, created primarily as collection, storage, and sharing facilitators, do not set up useful "