Category Archives: interwebs
My parents, caught on Google Streetview
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Max and Rochelle’s Day Out
Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.
Testing animoto with some pictures of the day me and Max when to Toronto Island.
Anticipation
me: are you waiting with baited breath for the apple announcement tomorrow?
me: I swear they leaked those rumours to stir people up
Catspaw: actually, I suspect the media will have blown expectations out of proportions.
me: I’m expecting them to come out with a set of USB speakers or something
Catspaw: hehe
Catspaw: “But wait…there’s just ONE MORE THING……………… [...]
How to Create a Useful Social Network
The last time I took a written test, I found myself very frustrated. I was sitting by myself in a room, answering questions on a sheet of paper, cut off from the large network of people I have digitally gathered around me over the years. The questions were testing my knowledge, not how I could [...]
Net Gen not so 2.0
More research supporting the end of the digital native mythology:
Twitter and Libraries
In preparation for our new library website, I have been working on some social media policies. I’ve never really been much of a policy person before, but I recognize that because I am bringing in some standard social media tools, I’m going to have to define some best practices. I got my first blog in [...]
Digital Normals
This may be my favourite bit of research lately. Teens aren’t internet superusers: if anyone is, it looks like it’s adults.
Pull this out the next time someone regales with you more anecdotal evidence that the kids these days are “digital natives” and we cannot understand their ways.
The Death of Newspapers
My old friend Michael drew my attention to an article by Michael Nieslen about changes in publishing and how the paradigm shifts catch companies by surprise. In short:
Each industry has (or had) a standard organizational architecture. That organizational architecture is close to optimal, in the sense that small changes mostly make things worse, not better. [...]
Internet Musical: Web Site Story
This is fantastic!
Memed Digital
Since the start, I’ve taken issue with the “digital immigrants/digital natives” divide. From one angle, that division puts me and everyone I share my digital life with on the digital immigrants side, in spite of our very rich online lives. From another, it suggests that the undergraduate students I spend my days assisting are somehow [...]
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