by Derek Morrison, 6 February 2010 (updated 10 & 23 February 2010) N.B. Any personal views expressed in this posting are those of the author alone and should not be construed as necessarily representing the view of any other individual or organisation. In their two new well-researched productions both the US PBS and the UK [...]
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Cyburbia author’s social networking polemic
December 30th, 2009
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by Derek Morrison, 30 December 2009 James Harkin, author of Cyburbia had an interesting piece in today’s print Guardian titled A Cult and not a cure (Guardian, 30 December 2009). As is common the online version of the article had the different title The trouble with Twitter and was posted on the Guardian Online website [...]
Independent “The First Decade” internet essay
December 9th, 2009
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The UK Independent is running a series of four essays this week to mark the first decade of the 21st century. The second essay this week was titled Has the Internet Brought us Together or Driven Us Apart (8 December 2009). It’s a good reflective piece by Johann Hari. The following extracts give a flavour [...]
BBC undertaking “open source” documentary on Web
November 29th, 2009
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by Derek Morrison, 29 November 2009 The BBC has a new intiative underway with the working title Digital Revolution.. They are in process of producing a new four part documentary about how the Web is transforming the world and they intend to open up as much of the production process as possible. It’s an interesting [...]
Pebbles crack boulders?
November 20th, 2009
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by Derek Morrison, 21 November 2009 Here’s a reflective activity. If you dear reader haven’t done so then read the following in the order suggested (the really motivated can also follow the embedded hyperlinks Digital Britain report published – read carefully (Auricle, 21 June 2009) ‘Ooooo’ comes after ‘Eeee’? (Auricle, 24 & 25 June 2009) [...]
Why Mendeley?
September 18th, 2009
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by Derek Morrison (first posted 7 September 2009, updated 18 September 2009) With the strapline “Organize, share and discover research papers” Mendeley is clearly pitching its hat into the academic software ring. There is certainly an interesting mix of people behind this enterprise who have obviously decided that there is a business opening not currently [...]
Storm Clouds – addendum
June 23rd, 2009
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by Derek Morrison, 23 June 2009 Here’s a slight addition to my orginal Storm Clouds online essay (Auricle, 9 September 2008) in which I reflected on the risks of the cloud computing paradigm. A recent Guardian edition had an interesting piece on the risks to our data when it’s stored in the ‘cloud’ (Freedom to [...]
Twitter – who generates the content?
June 23rd, 2009
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by Derek Morrison, 18 June 2009 In my 2008 online essay Take me to your thought leader! (Auricle, 28 January 2008) I highlighted work that suggests that despite the egalitarian vision and, arguably, the hype, the opportuntities for user creation offered by the Web 2.0 world appears to be grasped by relatively few accolytes.
