This weblog is for English 532: Writing for Electronic Media, a graduate course at Northern Illinois University.
Monday, February 5, 2007
Digital Text and Web Writing Video
Excellent YouTube video on digital text, hypertext, etc. - not only notable for its clarity in its arguement but for its creativity as a form of electronic writing.
Very interesting video. Statements such as "We [or you] are the Web" remind me of the question posted last week about our "responsibility" to technology.
It also makes me wonder if the "Six Degrees of Separation" theory will need to be reduced as the seemingly endless proliferation of the Web carries on!
Wow!!! I have to admit I was surprised to see it was authored by a professor of Cultural Anthropology-- I think my mental image of them has them studying older cultures. That was a lot of fun-- and brilliantly executed! Thanks!
I noticed the "some rights reserved" symbol. When did that come out? If you have 8 minutes, check out this futuristic clip/video/thingee on media and the web. (It too contains the CC stamp) I can't figure out how to make it a link, however! Here is the URL: http://www.robinsloan.com/epic/
Creative Commons is a nonprofit org that seeks to offer the general public means for finding alternative ways of copyrighting their creations. They offer the legal language, and the publicly understandable language, that can be attached to work published online that explicitly says what can and can't be done with it. These licenses often allow people to circulate and re-use works for most not-for-profit purposes. Creative Commons has been surprisingly successful - probably because of the "usability" of their licensing model - at battling the recent trend in copyright to lock down materials and control access, often to the detriment of the public good. Take a look if you're not familiar with CC licenses: Creative Commons.
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Very interesting video. Statements such as "We [or you] are the Web" remind me of the question posted last week about our "responsibility" to technology.
It also makes me wonder if the "Six Degrees of Separation" theory will need to be reduced as the seemingly endless proliferation of the Web carries on!
Jake
Wow!!! I have to admit I was surprised to see it was authored by a professor of Cultural Anthropology-- I think my mental image of them has them studying older cultures. That was a lot of fun-- and brilliantly executed! Thanks!
I noticed the "some rights reserved" symbol. When did that come out? If you have 8 minutes, check out this futuristic clip/video/thingee on media and the web. (It too contains the CC stamp) I can't figure out how to make it a link, however! Here is the URL:
http://www.robinsloan.com/epic/
Creative Commons is a nonprofit org that seeks to offer the general public means for finding alternative ways of copyrighting their creations. They offer the legal language, and the publicly understandable language, that can be attached to work published online that explicitly says what can and can't be done with it. These licenses often allow people to circulate and re-use works for most not-for-profit purposes. Creative Commons has been surprisingly successful - probably because of the "usability" of their licensing model - at battling the recent trend in copyright to lock down materials and control access, often to the detriment of the public good. Take a look if you're not familiar with CC licenses: Creative Commons.
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