Xerox Seeks Erasable Form of Paper for Copiers – New York Times Xerox is attempting to create a product which would allow one to use the same sheet a number of times when making photocopies. Essentially, one could make a copy and then somehow erase the copy to later use the same sheet. The realization …
Wired 14.12: You Tube vs. Boob Tube Wired has a great article on how YouTube is shaping the future of video…both in moving video entertainment to a more user-created model (which the author calls “monkeyvision” but others have called “semiotic democracy” or “rip/mix culture”), and in terms of how the current media model might try …
Stanley Fish – Think Again – A Closing Argument for Now – Opinion – TimesSelect (note: you may need a subscription for this one) Fish has achieved notariety within my field of Mass Communication Law for an article titled “There’s no such thing as the First Amendment, and it’s a good thing too.” Much like …
MySpace Aims for a Global Audience, and Finds Some Stiff Competition – New York Times This article has grown a bit stale, but I couldn’t let it pass by. The trouble that MySpace faces in expanding worldwide shows that for a social network website to be successful, it must have both a good design and …
John is a PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin - Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication. He studies the social impact of media technology law and policy, with a special emphasis on copyright. He also is an instructional technology consultant for DoIT-Academic Technology.
John doesn't update his blog often, and many of the thoughts are probably half-baked. While the web has sort of an eternal memory, the current and future reader is urged not to take all of this too seriously.
Think of this blog as "John thinking out loud."
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