Posts from ‘March, 2009’

McLuhan – The Medium is the Massage 2.1 by MyCluein: The Medium is the Massage excerpt from the 1967 audio book of the same name. The entire recording is at Ubu Web Sound.

NPR Talk of the Nation:
On this week’s opinion page, Jacob Weinberg, editor-in-chief of the Slate Group, focuses on the new Kindle device. In a recent opinion piece on Slate.com, he asked: “Why should a civilization that reads electronically be any less literate than one that harvests trees to do so?”

O.K., I’m sorry. Let me try again. “Laura, knock down that accessibility barrier, please.” Nick Negroponte said someone like you would come along someday to help me get stuff done. I’ve been waiting for your cool efficiency and ass-kick assertiveness for years. I’ve been working without support  staff for  so long  that I forgot my [...]

Photographer Lan Bui wrote a great post about why he gives photos away on a Ritz cracker – a.k.a. a Creative Commons license. Lan, thanks for your generous creative ethic and great photography!
Why do I give my photos away for free? | Lan Bui:
In short, because I like to. Nothing more simple… ’sharing makes me [...]

If my spring deadlines didn’t include preparing a talk for MiT6 and a seminar for NIH, I’d love to take this course. The project I’d propose would involve building an open source tool kit that blind students could use to make their own accessible texts.
Education/EduCourse/Announcement – MozillaWiki:
Mozilla (in collaboration with ccLearn and the Peer 2 [...]