Education 2.0 & 3.0

Sandra Gaudenzi:  "Digital Me is an adventure that started more than a year ago when I got obsessed with the idea of using personalisation to make a story that could speak to each user in a private and meanigful way. I had seen Take This Lollipop, by Jason Zada, and thought it was very clever, but I somehow felt that using personal data to speak about the self would be more helpful than using it to scare people.  How could we use data mining to empower users – rather than to sell them things? And could this narrative be a tool for self-reflection?"

Been interested for years in data mining and vis as memoir...

Of interest to children's app writers.

Inspirateur d'une technique de créativité Walt Disney inspire aussi les concepteurs d'applications.

Peter Robinson:  "Online celebrities will surge ahead in 2015 as the old media try to get a grasp of the pesky new names" ...

Interessant medieudvikling synes jeg - det vil jeg studere nærmere - og gerne diskutere

mipblog:  "How to be the signal in the noise? Canadian Media Fund's media trends analyst explains all the tricks!"

Once again, about creating new career paths and opportunities.

This is something that I have noticed several years ago. Most of the new stuff is coming by way of the new media. Newspapers and Magazines are still around but not nearly as relevant.

The main message I get from this article is that while the medium may have changed, the message remains the same. Convince your audience of your sincerity in a niche, and you will draw the audience. Draw the audience and you will (eventually) get financial reward.

And as an aside, I believe it to be much more difficult to convince a diverse audience of your sincerity if it is not genuine. Because this becomes a universe of niche's, most people devoted to a particular niche can recognize a fake pretty quickly.

Yelena Rachitsky:  "Many filmmakers testing out the waters of interactive film understand the inherent murkiness of the medium: the challenge in giving your audience agency while maintaining enough control over the narrative to let it take shape."

...not that films aren't already interactive of course...

Josh Rottenberg & Amy Kaufman:  "Since the advent of social networking services such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram — few of which existed when today's young movie audience was born — the duality of social media has bedeviled academics, artists and everyday people alike, as long-held social norms established in an analog world have rapidly given way to a new age of selfies, likes and status updates."

ANDERSON J. DUFF, WOLF, GREENFIELD & SACKS, PC:  "A recent monkey “selfie” took the media by storm, wowing the web and going viral on every major news site from the BBC to The Huffington Post. Circles of internet whisperers across the globe debated whether the photo’s copyright belonged to British wildlife photographer David J. Slater or, in fact, a crested black macaque who happened to snap the photo."

Adam Schartoff:  "A few years ago I was doing a 30-minute internet radio show and decided one day to re-purpose it as a podcast. I thought, why not?"

Here is some really good one's - click to read more.

Eli Epstein:  "When an author set out to tell a story in years past, he or she typically did so on paper, a typewriter or by typing at a computer. But today, storytellers find imaginative ways to share their ideas with interactive and visual elements. On modern mediums like Twitter, Vine, YouTube and other mobile applications, storytellers are crafting tales in ways that would have been unfathomable a decade ago."

Sarah Salovaara:  "As a consumer of new media – to say nothing of its makers – how does one go about keeping abreast of the emerging form's constant developments?"

Bill Desowitz:  "Is Virtual Reality going to finally be an interactive game-changer? Its proponents showed up in Stuttgart at FMX to make their case."

Carlos Pacheco:  "Facebook now boasts more video views per month than YouTube, but is it the best way for creators to get their content noticed? Here’s a quick guide to the pros and cons of posting videos on either platform."

Guía comparativa para creadores Facebook vs. YouTube

Fred McConnell:  "Ten years is a long time on the internet, especially when 300 minutes of video are uploaded to your site every minute. On YouTube’s 10th birthday, we trace the growth and growing pains of online video"

Indiewire:  "Need some help getting your web series out into the world? This guest post from the director and producer of "Allston Xmas" has some tips just for you."

Aaron Hutchins:  "Can the SVOD service drive ancillary revenues for content studios? Analysts and execs from DreamWorks and Scholastic Media weigh in."

Streaming Video On Demand is the future.

The Big Idea:  "The result is a series of audio interviews with 23 practitioners, producers, curators and researchers across theatre, dance and visual arts which Melissa hopes is the start of a toolkit for performance professionals and emerging artists."

[All nine podcasts can be found here.]

Eric Hynes:  "In 2014, most every filmmaker knows that it’s important to build a website for your project. But how many of us know enough about programming or design to create a site that serves as a fitting representation of the project, let alone one that functions as a tool for both marketing and audience building?"

Stephanie Rosenbloom:  "The web encourages bad behavior, and it’s part of our nature to focus on the negative. But there are smart ways to respond."

I have too many opinions on this subject but I don't wish ti bore anyone. Nor do I wish to detract from the article. It is a New York Times opinion piece and you may have to register to read the entire article but I think you will find it worthwhile.

If you have children just starting on-line (for me grandchildren) there is usefull advice about dealing with cyber bullying. 

But the piece is primarily targetted at an adult audience. Discussion on-line is a usefull way to expand your horizons but it comes with dangers that you don't experience in face to face exchanges.

I sm pretty thick skinned an sufficiently arrogant that I mostly ignore negative comments. But this piece offered some advice that will cause me to mend my ways a bit.

Adam Schartoff:  "A few years ago I was doing a 30-minute internet radio show and decided one day to re-purpose it as a podcast. I thought, why not?"

Here is some really good one's - click to read more.

This is another article that talks about the issue of Online anonymity, taking more of the insight that people are able to "display the less appealing parts of their nature." by being anonymous online.

6# great look on the context of anonymity and why we enjoy it so

Interesting thoughts on multiple online accounts and why we should we have profiles online.