Archivalia: Usage of Creative Commons by cultural heritage organisations
Archivalia: Usage of Creative Commons by cultural heritage organisations: Usage of Creative Commons by cultural heritage organisations http://www.eduserv.org.uk/foundation/studies/cc2007 Snapshot and case studies of current usage of Creative Commons (and other open content) licences by cultural heritage organisations in the UK —- this is a worthwhile study, i wonder if there is funding to do a […]
Read MoreReport: The future of scholarly communication: building the infastructure for cyberscholarship
Report: The future of scholarly communication: building the infastructure for cyberscholarship: The future of scholarly communication: building the infastructure for cyberscholarship link —- From craigbellamy.net
Read MoreHow to pay for a free press, by André Schiffrin
How to pay for a free press, by André Schiffrin: How to pay for a free press In a media world with one eye on the bottom line and the other on the official line, it’s getting harder to publish or broadcast anything that doesn’t promise huge sales and attendant profits, and that doesn’t say […]
Read MoreMap of Domain names
Map of the World Wide Web: A whole new way of looking at the world — now in two sizes! — these are two maps of the country codes mapped onto registrations.
Read MoreHistory of social media
History of social media: How the Social Web Came To Be (part 1, part 2) is a slideshow history from Trebor Sholz, for his class on social media. Very solid, rich stuff. (via Stephen Downes) —- two good slideshows from trebor
Read MoreCultural Ethnography: A Brief Report
Cultural Ethnography: A Brief Report: A user in the usability lab is like a tiger in the cage, helpless! Study him in his natural habitat! — this is a short report from an hci practitioner who has moved into the realm of ethnography. i think it captures one of the main failures of much of […]
Read Morewho owns web 2.0?
who owns web 2.0?: Via Tama Leaver, I found this great overview of who owns what from Amy Webb– as you can see, Google, Yahoo and the rest are far more likely than Murdoch, at this point, to end up controlling our media lives in five or ten years time. Amy Webb suggests printing it […]
Read Morechildren's drawings staged as photographs.
YEONDOOJUNG: —- interesting conceptualization
Read MoreInternational Memory of the World Conference
International Memory of the World Conference: “Communities and memories: a global perspective” is the theme of the Conference to take place in Australia next year. In association with the Australian Memory of the World Committee and under the auspices of the Australian National Commission for UNESCO, the National Library of Australia will organize the Third […]
Read MorePublic access group challenges Smithsonian over copyrights
Public access group challenges Smithsonian over copyrights: Grabbing pictures of iconic Smithsonian Institution artifacts just got a whole lot easier. Before, if you wanted to get a picture of the Wright Brothers’ plane, you could go to the Smithsonian Images Web site and pay for a print or high-resolution image after clicking through several warnings […]
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