Relevant to recent discussions here, oyster is a service that let's you subscribe for $10 a month and it works like a book library. ... It is like last.fm or spotify for books, haven't looked at it...Read More
Now, if I were particular sort of theorist, for example some sort of Marxist, I might decide that one of the parts of what I've described as a 'conglomeration' is more important than the others, in tr...Read More
Courtney realises that how we have been taught to write essays, and what an essay is, in school, is not really what the essay is. ... If you want to model and afford learning, discovery, invention a...Read More
We don't do this somewhere else then report on it (which is what most of us have been taught an essay is) but the essay is actually where we do the thinking. ... The essay is a technology, treat it a...Read More
The internet stuffs that up as it is a medium that can distribute any sort of media, in any old way (including ways not thought of yet), so rather than three commercial networks, where unless the gove...Read More
For example, while it is a good idea for people to be able to ask questions, in a lecture scenario of 120 students and 50 minutes the scale doesn't work, there simply isn't the capacity for everyone's...Read More
Those who notice the change then think it doesn't matter (and then it's too late - once upon a time the Saturday Age newspaper was phone book thick - oh, bad example because, um, Sensis, the directory...Read More
Just a list culled from the earlier post about the Boston Globe sale, Patrick picks this up , wondering specifically about journalism. He also, earlier made some good points about traditional medi...Read More
Nice parody about the death of print , courtesy of The Onion. A nice speculative come fictional task would be to read the obituary for television....Read More