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Remix, mash-up examples

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbBNqNaZVc8&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmkVWuP_sO0&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atHWASn_ygo&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74cM-tF8-kY

Obama, Elkhart, and the Economic Crisis

For some reason I feel compelled to write something. Not sure what exactly, but the fact that President Obama chose my hometown of Elkhart, IN as his venue of choice to talk about the economy, well, freaks me out a little. The stat I keep hearing is that Elkhart’s employment is among the worst in… [Read more…]

Protected: desk set

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m-lab

http://www.measurementlab.net/ http://blog.wired.com/business/google/

What goes around…

Obama Wins!

It’s hard to find the words to describe this right now. Amazing. But this is only the start. We need to do our part, hold people accountable, and keep the faith. For those who kept asking: Who is the real Obama? Well, I think a better question is not “who is the real Obama,” but… [Read more…]

A few notable examples of citizen journalism

Cell phone photo of London terrorist attacks in 2005 Trent Lott resigns as Senate majority leader in 2002 Rathergate Talking Points Memo and the US Attorney Firings and TPM Muckraker

Unemployment hits home

This is my hometown. From the New York Times: Elkhart, near the Michigan border in an area known as Michiana, is the white-hot center of the meltdown of the American economy. Its main industries, the manufacturing of recreational vehicles and motor homes, have fallen apart over the last year because of high gasoline prices. That… [Read more…]

Giving the iPhone to students…

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/21/technology/21iphone.html At least four institutions — the University of Maryland, Oklahoma Christian University, Abilene Christian and Freed-Hardeman — have announced that they will give the devices to some or all of their students this fall.

Digital image alteration, revisionist history

In the NYT: I was there. Just ask Photoshop. Williams, Alex. Aug 17, 2008. As image-editing software grows in sophistication and ubiquity, alterations go far beyond removing red-eye and whitening teeth. They include substituting head shots to achieve the best combination of smiles, deleting problematic personalities or adding family members who were unable to attend… [Read more…]

Digital tech as challenging official narratives of public events?

Thought-provoking story from the NYT: When Official Truth Collides With Cheap Digital Technology. Dwyer, J. July 30, 2008 The availability of cheap digital technology — video cameras, digital cameras, cellphone cameras — has ended a monopoly on the history of public gatherings that was limited to the official narratives, like the sworn documents created by… [Read more…]

Moyers at National Conference for Media Reform 2008

Lessig Keynote at National Conference for Media Reform