Andy Carvins Waste of Bandwidth: House Overwhelmingly Passes DOPA
Andy discusses the overwhelming passage of the deleting online predators act.  For advocates, it is seen as a way to protect children on the Internet.  Opponents, like Carvin, believe it will stifle Internet use in schools, and I have to agree.  Already, our children are blocked from […]

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Early in the process of exploring media literacy, I blogged about Hobbs’ article on the seven great debates in media literacy. As I continue to read and explore and think about the next steps in my learning, I want to take a minute to answer the debates as my answers will help determine what […]

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The Bonefolder: an e-journal for the bookbinder and book artist
Interesting marriage of old media and new media

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Wired News: Up, Up and Away, Indeed
Conference co-founder Coogan acknowledged that academia can be a fun- buster. “You have this dog and you love it, and you want to find out why you love it. You dissect it, and you’re left with this dead bloody dog on the table,” he said. “That’s one of the […]

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fremonttribune.com, Fremont, Nebraska’s Community Newspaper
Seigenthaler said it took months to get statements about him removed from a Wikipedia page.
This quote is from an article about the most recent Wikipedia flap…a Catholic high school is concerned that someone wrote something bad about them and they are suing Wikipedia.   Tim at Assorted Stuff asks the pertinent […]

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Leonardo da Vinci in Milan near La Scala Opera House, June 2004
Read Sherwin B. Nuland’s biography of da Vinci.  It is part of the Penguin Lives series, which are short bios (< 200 pages) written by non-biographers.  Nuland is a surgeon who teaches at Yale.  While his biography focuses on da Vinci’s anatomical work, there […]

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Vision/eyes/the gaze are a large part of the literature on media.  So, I thought the BBC World News story on smart cars that can steer themselves because they have sensors that allow them to “see” cones.  In addition, the cars learn the best path and then are able to take it at higher speeds.  The […]

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tobias
Tobias Wong’s website
The artist/designer was featured in an NPR story recently:  http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5548745
In the blurb about the audio story, he is referred to as an “industrial designer” and an “artist” and the short description of him at his website suggests that he is blurring the lines between design and art.  One press clipping suggests he is […]

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YouTube has lots of the Chevy commercials created by “regular Joe” as part of a promotion earlier this year. This one by Vespa gives the flavor of many of them: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_ljcsJQIo4

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BBC NEWS | UK | Princes’ ’sadness’ at Diana photo
Mirzoeff devotes an entire chapter of his introduction to visual culture to Diana’s death, believing it marks “the end of photography and the inauguration of global visual culture” (p.  232).  Even now, a photo of the princess in her last moments almost nine years ago can […]

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