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I'm collecting links for my senior thesis that will look at communication through internet technologies and the potential avenues of participation that they open.



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    • Andrew Spittle of Whitman Pioneer and CoPress linked this on March 20, 2010 at 11:33AM EDT
    • Andrew said: We need another web revolution to transform into a world-as-a-database.
      Quote: Something should be keeping track of this. Something that can watch and record and use that recording to build a model. Something that can connect the real world of objects with the intangible set of goals that I have for myself. Something that could do that would be exceptionally desirable. It would be as seductive as the Web.
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    • Andrew Spittle of Whitman Pioneer and CoPress linked this on March 19, 2010 at 11:37PM EDT
    • Andrew said: What are we losing in the endless search for wow and how can we addresses this?
      Quote: Culture has been getting faster and shallower for hundreds of years, and I'm not the first crusty pundit to decry the demise of thoughtful inquiry and deep experiences. The interesting question here, though, is not how fast is too fast, but what works? What works to change mindsets, to spread important ideas and to create an audience for work that matters? What's worth your effort and investment as a marketer or creator?
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    • Andrew Spittle of Whitman Pioneer and CoPress linked this on March 8, 2010 at 1:40PM EST
    • Andrew said: Jeff Jarvis rails against traditional models of education and media. A brilliant critique.
      Quote: So we need to move students up the education chain. They don’t always know what they need to know, but why don’t we start by finding out? Instead of giving tests to find out what they’ve learned, we should test to find out what they don’t know. Their wrong answers aren’t failures, they are needs and opportunities. But the problem is that we start at the end, at what we think students should learn, prescribing and preordaining the outcome: We have the list of right answers. We tell them our answers before they’ve asked the questions. We drill them and test them and tell them they’ve failed if they don’t regurgitate back our lectures as lessons learned. That is a system built for the industrial age, for the assembly line, stamping out everything the same: students as widgets, all the same.
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    • Andrew Spittle of Whitman Pioneer and CoPress linked this on March 1, 2010 at 12:31PM EST
    • Andrew said: The headline from a recent NY Times article about broadband use in the U.S. is a bit misleading. Turns out many in that 1/3 are without broadband by choice.
      Quote: A more accurate headline might be “One-Third of U.S. Without Computers, Mostly By Choice.” This is fascinating and worthy of discussion in our industry. Collectively, we’ve screwed up. Badly. What can we do to make computers attractive to the third of our country who don’t use any of our stuff?
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    • Andrew Spittle of Whitman Pioneer and CoPress linked this on February 26, 2010 at 11:56PM EST
    • Andrew said: Stewart Brand with a short but very clear and to the point statement about what the internet means for him.
      Quote: Thanks to my guild's Internet-mediated conversation, my neuronal thinking is enhanced immeasurably by our digital thinking.
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    • Andrew Spittle of Whitman Pioneer and CoPress linked this on February 26, 2010 at 7:33PM EST
    • Andrew said: Very well thought out and well put piece concerning the concerns over the Google Books project. Well worth reading.
      Quote: But then we historians, like other humanities scholars, are natural-born critics. We can find fault with virtually anything. And this disposition is unsurprisingly exacerbated when a large company, consisting mostly of better-paid graduates from the other side of campus, muscles into our turf. Had Google spent hundreds of millions of dollars to build the Widener Library at Harvard, surely we would have complained about all those steps up to the front entrance.

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