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6 days ago by Aaron

Watching this, I had a few thoughts (beyond noting that there’s a typo in the url, heheh. Go Barnes and Noble). Is the internet “dumbing us down”, or does it just enable an acceleration of the rush to the lowest common denominator that was already taking place in the mainstream media? Long before th ...

Akashic Flotsam - ahawryluk.ca/blog

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43 days ago by jamestoned

All I know is that you love me… in my dreams. — REO Speedwagon In the web, fantasy is real—which is why it never ceases to amaze me how many creatures are addicted to happy thoughts. I couldn’t blame them really. In today’s torturous Web 2.0 fame, it’s like Hara-Kiri to show anything beyond our silh ...

welcome to the "annals" - intotheannalsofjames.wordpress.com

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47 days ago by doobyg

The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Andrew Keen colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor Gay Marriage Am I one? Are you one? TMI, as in Too Much Introspection. Couldn’t help it. On Thursday afternoon, I attended a talk by Andrew Keen, author of Cult of the Amateur. ...

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50 days ago by Rhian Angharad Jones

We have more news and more influential journalism, across an unprecedented range of media, than ever before. Yet journalism is under constant attack from politicians, philosophers and the general public. “The future for the press in the new millennium looks bleak,” says Dr Carl Jensen, founder of Pr ...

Jones the BlogMaker - jonestheblogmaker.com

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56 days ago by guilhermeviotti

Livro que não pode faltar pra essa nossa geração que precisa refletir muito sobre as conquistas democráticas de expressão vs a perda de ícones e consequentemente inspirações, forças impulsionadoras, emoções exarcebadas e marcos na vida. Link com um pequeno resumo (quando a versão em português ainda ...

Idéias Abertas - ideiasabertas.wordpress.com

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74 days ago by digiom

Gestern und vorgestern fand die Amateure im Web 2.0-Konferenz statt, ich bin bervoll der Eindrcke und darum ist dieses Blogpost entsetzlich lang geworden. Hier ist schon einmal der Link zur Prezi meines Vortrags: 2 Girls 1 Cup Reaction - Distinktionsgewinn durch somatische Entgleisung im Social Web. ...

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82 days ago by Steve Brady

In a recent blog post, Stevie Rocco wrote that “Professor X is a scribe.” She wrote that as part of a larger conversation which grew from a critique of Cole Camplese’s presentation at the Chronicle of Higher Education’s Tech Forum and his defense, and I encourage you all to go read the post. In read ...

The Professor's Notes - theprofessornotes.com · 3 references

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95 days ago by Jordan McAuley

As a child, I always loved going with my mom to the grocery store because she would let me get a gumball from the gumball machine. Sometimes, I’d find a colorful, pocket-sized “comic book” on top of it that somehow always depicted a young child disobeying his parents, misbehaving, and going to hell— ...

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125 days ago by Steve Brady

This Flash animation gives a narrative view of the potential outcome (from the “future perspective of being in 2014 and looking back”) that we can expect when, as Andrew Keen warns, the “Cult of Amateur” pushes the experts out the door. Is this a world we want to have? View the animation, and then p ...

The Professor's Notes - theprofessornotes.com · 3 references

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131 days ago by Steve Brady

In my previous post I wrote about some of my thoughts concerning three key points that I drew from Andrew Keen’s The Cult of the Amateur” . I wanted to take a few minutes to write about ways to address the challenges of these three points. I have commented on twitter (@SCMProfessor) that I don’t lik ...

The Professor's Notes - theprofessornotes.com · 3 references