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You may have heard that there is an interesting copyright dispute between the street artist who created the red/white/blue poster of Pres. Obama and the AP photo service and photographer who generated the original image. The dispute bears on the … Continue reading →

ial networking sites and popular culture is creating a lack of the ability to sustain attention, process extended text, and focus on more than the trivial. This time the voice belongs to a Professor from Oxford. As a consequence, the … Continue reading →

Malcolm Gladwell, New Yorker columnist, will be the opening speaker at NECC. I have read a couple of his books (Outliers, Blink, Tipping Point). I wasn’t that impressed by Blink, but I found many of the concepts advanced in Outliers … Continue reading →

LastFm has denied reports that it shares data on who plays what music with record companies. The allegation surfaced about a week ago in reference to reported information on an unreleased U2 album. It seemed to me that LastFM would … Continue reading →

Charlie Rose interviews Marc Andreeson – comments on Ning, Twitter, social networking, and Internet resources and strategies.

I have done my part to promote Last.FM. I am fascinated by online social networking and take ideas I pick up in one area (i.e., music) to inform my thinking about others (education). As a promoter of this service, I … Continue reading →