I have held my tongue as far as comments on Apple’s iPad — there is more than enough other chatter from other quarters. But a recent article in the New York Times, The Media Equation – To Deliver, iPad Needs Content Providers on Board – NYTimes.com caught my eye in a comment on book publisher’s response to the platform: Read the rest of this entry »
Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Build a Digital Republic of Their Own, by David Bollier, The New Press, 2008 — http://www.onthecommons.org.
Compare the presentation on an MIT opencourseware lecture on the MIT page and Academic Earth. Open Earth provides much of what users expect in a site — tools to share the page on Facebook, embed it in a web page, or add it to favorites. Also note the lecture can be graded by logged in users. Along the right side bar we get suggestions of related videos. And along the bottom are the Editor’s picks. On the MIT page? There is none of this. Which site are you more likely to use? Which invites further exploration and return visits?
I just finished reading Thinking in Systems: A Primer
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