Monthly Archives: February 2007

More Lessig and DMCA

Posted on February 21, 2007 by Alvin Trusty

  Here is an interesting videocast from Cranky Geeks http://www.crankygeeks.com/2006/07/cranky_geeks_special_the_dmca.html Lawerence Lessig talks about the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) and how it is possibly one of the worst laws on the books.  As he explains, we are losing more … Continue reading →

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What if class were like a chat

Posted on February 20, 2007 by Alvin Trusty

This is right out of my eTech presentation. If you have ever taken an online class with a chat component, the video should ring true.  Here are the points I made about chats in online classes. Chats  Inefficient Difficult for … Continue reading →

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Free Culture

Posted on February 19, 2007 by Alvin Trusty

If you haven’t watched/listened to Lawerence Lessig, here is a presentation that is worth your time. http://randomfoo.net/oscon/2002/lessig/free_culture.swf  (Flash) http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/policy/2002/08/15/lessig.html  (HTML) The presentation can be summed up in the refrain of a song that he wrote for the presentation. Creativity and … Continue reading →

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Tagging and Tag Clouds

Posted on February 2, 2007 by Alvin Trusty

Here’s an interesting report from PEW on tagging.  In Decemeber of last year they found that 28% of Internet users are taggers and 7% of us tag on a daily basis.  If you are familiar with del.icio.us, you are probably … Continue reading →

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