Posts Tagged ‘disruptive technologies’

stevenberlinjohnson.com: Old Growth Media And The Future Of News.
The metaphors we use to think about changes in media have a lot to tell us about the particular moment we’re in. McLuhan talked about media as an extension of our central nervous system, and we spent forty years trying to figure out how media was re-wiring [...]

Adam Thierer, The Most Important Tech Policy Books of 2008 - The Technology Liberation Front:
It’s been a big year for tech policy books. Several important titles were released in 2008 that offer interesting perspectives about the future of the Internet and the impact digital technologies are having on our lives, culture, and economy. Back [...]

YouTube - Vernacular Video by hrheingold:

Inexpensive digital cameras, laptop editing, and network distribution have detonated an explosion of vernacular video, from YouTube to Open Courseware. This is a broad look at the ways video vernaculars are changing pop culture — and a hint of changes to come in education. Six and a half minutes.

YouTube - Your Weekly Address from the President-Elect 111508: President-elect Obama talks about the economy in this week’s Democratic address. For more information, visit http://www.change.gov
According to NYT The Caucus:
From now on it will be the weekly “Democratic Radio Address” in name only.
President-elect Barack Obama, capitalizing on his successful use of multimedia technologies during the [...]

Hack Day at The Guardian | Help | guardian.co.uk 111308:
The Guardian’s technology team is hosting its first Hack Day today. Staff and a few close friends of The Guardian will enter into a 24-hour codefest where anything is possible.
The concept is simple: take an idea to prototype in a day and then present your work [...]