Category: disruptive-technology
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Read/Write web political disruptions
Citizen journalism took headlines recently with Phil de Vellis’s (aka ParkRidge47 on YouTube) remix of the 1984 Apple Ad as a “Vote Different” video critique of Hillary Clinton and endorsement of Barack Obama. Writing on The Huffington Post, Phil reveals his only tools to create this headline-grabbing video were his Macintosh laptop, an Internet connection,…
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Debating Ataturk, more bans on user created content
Much of the news we hear about regarding the banning of technologies or websites has to do with “user created content.” In the 20th century, it wasn’t possible for just anyone to publish for a global audience. Today, however, that act is now possible for anyone with a modicum of literacy and access to an…
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Avoiding shock and awe in Plato’s cave
I’ve felt a bit like E.T. recently landing on planet earth, speaking to a group of humans who had never seen or heard an extraterrestrial before. According to WikiPedia, “shock and awe” is: a military doctrine based on the use of “overwhelming decisive force”, “dominant battlefield awareness”, “dominant maneuvers”, and “spectacular displays of power” to…
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Obscure movies face a great future
Bryan Reesman may not have heard about NetFlix, iTunes, Amazon, eBay, U-verse and The Long Tail— or at least considered how they relate to the present and future of home movie entertainment. If he has, for some reason he didn’t mention any of these online digital outlets or concepts in his article “For Obscure DVDs,…
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Skype tomorrow?
If you will be available Wednesday, Feb 28th between 11 and 11:45 US Central Time and would be interested in skyping into my session on safe digital social networking (briefly) to say hello and tell session participants a bit about what you love best about working in education, please comment here with your skype ID.…
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Google Apps challenges Microsoft expectation culture
The pervasive “expectation culture” of Microsoft-centric operating system and productivity software is pervasive today in most educational and business environments. By “expectation culture” I mean that most people expect that everyone is using Microsoft products on their computers. That culture is continuing to be challenged by several factors including: The runaway popularity of the iPod,…
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Here come Star Trek communicators
When I visited Circuit City today to purchase their last iRiver T10, my eyes were immediately drawn to a new mp3 device on the shelf: the Sony mylo. This is not “merely” an mp3 player, however, any more than the iPhone (when it is released in June) is going to be “just” an iPod. Like…