Class list
Course overview
Syllabus
Visit Blogdex
Eat Crow
Read the paper assignment
Visit some links du jour
Where's Bolter?
Does his publisher know?
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Chapter 11, anyone?
Find out about Steve Jones
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Visit some links du jour
Visit some links du jour
Visit some links du jour
Monday, September 23, 2002
Today's finds come exclusively from the business section of the New York Times. Of particular interest to Information Culture: a story on the snafus in the so-called system of music production and consumption that impede development of online music services; Tedeschi's e-commerce report on a "hobby" that, like trading collectibles, might actually be a revenue engine on the Web; and the New Economy column discussing the economics of distributing movies on DVD as opposed to online.
I've noticed some interesting blogs starting to emerge from members of this class, but fewer than I was hoping to see at this stage. If you aren't reading your classmate's blogs, you're missing some mighty fine infoculture! If you aren't yet writing one....
You might be interested in looking at a piece of Bolter's original (aka first edition) version of Writing Space. Here's Chapter Six.
Now for something truly different: elgooG. This Google mirror appears to have shattered the Great Wall of China. And did you know that everyone's favorite search site (well, mine at least) has a blog all its own?
Thursday, September 12, 2002
Although it's getting a bit ahead of our scheduled agenda for the course, here's an interesting BBC article on the resurrection of the dead: read about using phones as peer-to-peer vehicles for sharing music, images, and more. Note also that I was unable to locate a version of this story in the US media this evening using a google search. Why is that?
And in other BBC news, the digital war with Iraq has already begun. You can also see mi2g's fuller version of the story (plus other info and of course a plug for the company). You have to choose the story from a drop-down menu labeled "latest news," suggesting that eventually this story will no longer be "latest" and will therefore cease to be accessible. Think about the use of frames on this site and the way that choice structures your experience. Note also that I was unable to locate anything like this story in the US media this evening.
Now for something completely different: boxes and arrows, a communally run blog (refers to itself as a 'zine -- and the difference is ... ?) for information architects and experience designers. See also ID Blog, by DCD student Beth Mazur.
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