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NewMediaLiteracy.org's own Jonathan C. Hall reports from the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) in San Diego.
The NECC is the place to learn about the burgeoning practice and industry of educational technology, including all the latest thinking, software, and gizmos, from the lofty to the lowly. Jonathan will be representing upublic, an innovative education consulting company based in New York, where he is Director of Technology. But he'll be sure to keep us apprised of the best and worst of the vendor booths, workshops, new product announcements that stand to impact this shifting new-media landscape we inhabit and seek to understand. We hope he gets a few waves out there, too.
This year's NECC runs July 5-8 at the San Diego Convention Center, here:
Click here for more information from conference organizers.
Counting Up My LifeBits
In this week's New Yorker ("Remember This?" May 28, 2007), Alec Wilkinson trails Microsoft researcher Gordon Bell's effort to build a personal archive encompassing all the minutiae of his life, his "lifebits." The practice is dubbed "lifelogging," something most of us do to a greater or lesser extent, depending on how infected we are by that natural impulse to horde.
Dumb Down the News With More Detail, Not Less
As I collect and read news from the Internet, much of which flows through the purifying sieve of the Associated Press (AP) — who in its eagerness to make the news more readable sifts out important facts and contexts — I'm not surprised that the Web-enabled public now believes itself a better journalist, en masse, than real journalists.
What is Web 2.0?
What is it that makes us identify one application or approach as "Web 1.0" and another as "Web 2.0"? Tim O'Reilly tries to answer this question, noting its urgency: "The Web 2.0 meme has become so widespread that companies are now pasting it on as a marketing buzzword, with no real understanding of just what it means. The question is particularly difficult because many of those buzzword-addicted startups are definitely not Web 2.0, while some of the applications we identified as Web 2.0, like Napster and BitTorrent, are not even properly web applications!"
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