In my day job as an instructional technology support guy I hear (and make) the occasional complaint about the technologies we use at our institution. Lately we’ve been hearing a lot about the new “Saved Successfully” alert banner that appears in Desire2Learn (D2L) version 9. Since it’s slowing people down (myself included), I thought it …
10 Rules for Radicals: Lessons from rogue archivist Carl Malamud – Boing Boing I can’t recommend this enough for anyone interested in Internet history, politics, hardware, or law. Rogue archivist Carl Malamud’s 10 Rules for Radicals is the transcript of his keynote at the 19th World Wide Web Consortium conference in 2010. It’s a thrilling …
I couldn’t have said this any better myself. Now that we’re going from wired to wireless, these same folks don’t want “the open Web” to happen to them again all over again. If they have to compete in an open marketplace, with the best applications and services on neutral ground, well, they’ll just be consigned, …
Google released the details of their talks with Verizon (Google Public Policy Blog: A joint policy proposal for an open Internet). On the whole their proposal doesn’t sound all that bad. There is, however, one potentially dangerous point: Fifth, we want the broadband infrastructure to be a platform for innovation. Therefore, our proposal would allow …
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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