By Stephen Downes
December 30, 2003
2004: The Turning Point
In this
article I base my projections not on stock prices, sales
trends or focus group analysis. I base it on what I think -
on what I feel, in the classic sense of the Idoru - is
driving the hearts of those who will make the final
decisions on the future of the internet, those who use it.
By Stephen Downes, Stephen's Web, December 30, 2003
[Refer][Research][Reflect]
Ed Blogging 2003
Some highlights
for the year in the world of Ed-Blogging. I don't agree
with the picks, but hey, if I don't like them, as they say,
I should write my own - this is the blogosphere
after all. By Will Richardson, WebloggEd, December 30, 2003
[Refer][Research][Reflect]
Does the End Justify the
Means?
This response to David Weinberger and Doc
Searls's article 'World of Ends' challenges some now
popular opinions, and especially the idea that value in a
network is created at the end, not the middle. But is a
smart network a bad thing? Look at Google - that's smart,
isn't it? And what about the telephone system, which worked
well for 100 years and was smart because it had to be. I'm
not sure I buy the hard-core capitalism that underlies this
item (after all, much of the internet was not
created using investment dollars). As for the rest, well,
food for thought. By Ken Camp, Digital Common Sense,
December 29, 2003
[Refer][Research][Reflect]
Hung Out to Dry by the
Sponsors
With WalMart selling sanitized versions
of music and video and greater corporate influence reaching
intoi affairs of academia and culture, it's worth looking
at this cautionary tale about what happens when creativity
pushes the edge in a sponsored world. By Peter Kennard, The
Guardian, December 30, 2003
[Refer][Research][Reflect]
College to Address Copyright
It
won't be business as usual next year at Ithaca College as
instructors will now have to obtain copyright clearance for
materials traditionally shared - legally, they thought
(probably correctly), under fair use - in student course
packs. In addition to the cost, instructors will now have
to spend a certain amount of time each year chasing down
permissions for thirty or more items. Oh yes, this is a
good use of faculty time. By Anne K. Walters, The Ithacan,
December 11, 2003
[Refer][Research][Reflect]
Truth about High School
An
unpopular high school validictorian, elected as a joke,
tells it like it is. "I am not the most popular person, not
even close," he wrote. "I am not on the sports teams, I am
not on Students Council. If I can be elected valedictorian,
anything is possible," he concluded, borrowing a phrase
from an unlikely teenage muse, Napoleon: "I am the
revolution." Such a student would be welcome any day in my
house. By Siri Agrell, National Post, December 27, 2003
[Refer][Research][Reflect]
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