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Category: Change

  • Mashable on Digital Textbooks

    Mashable (of all places) has an interesting set of points as to why digital textbooks are not quite all they are made out to be: Cost savings (only 12.5% cheaper) No standard format DRM/ownership they also quote the Dean of the University of Texas School of Information. “Fighting 700 years of human familiarity with paper…

  • Sexting in the news again

    This time, BBC has picked it up again in two stories (first, second), just in time for parents to start thinking about back to school (at least in North America). While many of the other stories that I’ve brought up here talk about how it is essentially no different than passing notes in terms of…

  • Facebook, Ads and Ignorance

    It seems that quite a few people (myself included) have gotten caught up in the “Facebook Ad Myth”, the one that has user pictures being made available for third party use unless users change their privacy settings. If we’ve learned nothing else from Mythbusters, we know that every good myth has some element of truth…

  • The Manga Bible and other Communications that cause grief

    I’m not a very religious person, and I’m certainly not about to align myself with any given religion, but I think what is mentioned in this quite two minute report about the Bible is something that has analogues to many other systems that are experiencing change. Szwedowska “warns” that this version of the Bible is…

  • What I learned from Twitter this week

    We’ve all seen on the news how Twitter is being used in Iran and elsewhere for people to share information that governments don’t want shared and in disasters to help inform others of the situation. But over the weekend, it was in some ways “my turn”. The storm (that may or may not have included…