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the evils of photoshop?
In a larger essay which bemoans the rise of image culture, Christine Rosen goes after Photoshop and its users in The New Atlantis, a right-leaning journal concerned with the intersection of technology...
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So, what happens when you put together a drama professor and a computer science one? You get an entertainment technology program. In an article, in the NY Times, Seth Schiesel talks about the...
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virtual libraries, real ones, empires
Last Tuesday, a Washington Post editorial written by Library of Congress librarian James Billington outlined the possible benefits of a World Digital Library, a proposed LOC endeavor discussed last...
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Becky Hogge writes in Opendemocracy about a new digital rights organization, The Open Rights Group, based in Westminster, Brussels and Geneva. Like the Electronic Frontier Foundation in the United...
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the institute is a bit over a year old now. our understanding of what we’re doing has deepened considerably during the year, so we thought it was time for a serious re-statement of our goals. here’s a...
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DRM and the damage done to libraries
New York Public Library A recent BBC article draws attention to widespread concerns among UK librarians (concerns I know are shared by librarians and educators on this side of the Atlantic) regarding...
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ecclesiastical proust archive: starting a community
(Jeff Drouin is in the English Ph.D. Program at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York) About three weeks ago I had lunch with Ben, Eddie, Dan, and Jesse to talk about starting a...
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10 types of publication
In my other life, in the world of web startups, I often have to contend with people who are steadfastly convinced that everyone lives in the technical future. In this world, everyone blogs, knows what...
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first of penguin’s interactive fictions up
Ben posted a few weeks back about an intriguing new interactive project in the pipeline from Penguin. WeTellStories, produced for Penguin by ARG studio SixToStart is now out in the open. Comprising six...
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SocialBook in Action
Although it’s been under the radar for nearly two years, we’ll be opening up the beta program soon, so I thought it might be a good idea to post some screenshots of Socialbook in action. The results so...
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