March 2010
23 posts
Why Steve Wozniak Wants Two iPads - Newsweek.com →
“The iPad could lower the cost of acquiring computers for students. I think it’s going to be huge in the education market. Think about students going off to college. They want an Apple product, but their parents don’t want to spend that much. Now they have the ideal thing. They can go to college and someone may have a whacked-out $6,000 laptop, but the guy with the iPad will get...
52 Weeks of UX: 10 Principles of UX →
1. The Experience Belongs to the User: Experience is subjective, and therefore cannot be designed in quite the same way that a physical product can. However, that doesn’t mean we can’t design the framework within which people experience our product/service. If we succeed, then great…
Marvell pitches $99 Moby Tablet as textbook... →
“When chipmaker Marvell told us its technology would power $99 smartphones, we took the company at its word. We weren’t expecting a sub-$100, 10-inch tablet PC, however — and we definitely weren’t expecting Marvell itself to build it. Marketed at students looking to lighten their textbook load, the Marvell Moby will be an “always-on, high performance multimedia...
Amazon threatens more publishers with freeze-out... →
“Earlier this year, Amazon found itself in a showdown over e-book pricing with publisher Macmillan, which wanted the ability to set pricing for its works. Amazon initially pulled all of Macmillan’s titles off its virtual shelves but, a few days later, conceded there was little it could do—Macmillan’s works went back on sale, and Amazon apparently gave up on trying to force its...
Most students use Wikipedia, avoid telling profs... →
Surprise! Most students use Wikipedia at some point during their research on a paper or project, and they usually do so early on in the process. Online peer-reviewed journal First Monday recently published the findings of its research on student Wikipedia use and said that the service often serves as a starting point for the students who use it, allowing them to gather information for further...
Slashdot | How Students Use Wikipedia →
“First Monday recently released a study about how college students actually use Wikipedia. Not surprisingly, they found, ‘Overall, college students use Wikipedia. But, they do so knowing its limitation. They use Wikipedia just as most of us do — because it is a quick way to get started and it has some, but not deep, credibility.’ The study offers some initial data to help...
Internet Explorer 9 Looks Faster, More... →
The Internet Explorer team is spilling some details and future promises about Internet Explorer 9 at the Mix conference, and a few of them are warming up some cold, hardened web and app developers. So far, Microsoft has announced native H.264 streaming support through HTML5, which adds another player to the split over video streaming. They’re also promising native audio and vector graphics...
Fending Off Digital Decay, Bit by Bit -... →
Among the archival material from Salman Rushdie currently on display at Emory University in Atlanta are inked book covers, handwritten journals and four Apple computers (one ruined by a spilled Coke). The 18 gigabytes of data they contain seemed to promise future biographers and literary scholars a digital wonderland: comprehensive, organized and searchable files, quickly accessible with a few...
C-Span Puts Its Full Archives on the Web -... →
Researchers, political satirists and partisan mudslingers, take note: C-Span has uploaded virtually every minute of its video archives to the Internet.
The archives, at C-SpanVideo.org, cover 23 years of history and five presidential administrations and are sure to provide new fodder for pundits and politicians alike. The network will formally announce the completion of the C-Span Video Library...
'The Oxford Companion to the Book' Excerpt -... →
Excerpt from Chapter 13 of The Electronic Book by Eileen Gardiner and Ronald G. Musto.
Toward a New Alexandria →
“Imagine a new Library of Alexandria. Imagine an archive that contains all the natural and social sciences of the West—our source-critical, referenced, peer-reviewed data—as well as the cultural and literary heritage of the world’s civilizations, and many of the world’s most significant archives and specialist collections. Imagine that this library is electronic and in the public...
Beyond the peer review | University Affairs →
“Publish or perish. It’s a mantra that haunts academics at all stages of their careers. The process is simple enough: research, write and submit work for peer review. If all goes well, a few dozen people read your article and your CV gets a new line. This may be enough for your tenure review file, but if you want to disseminate your knowledge to a wider audience, the model is lacking. You...
edwired » Blog Archive » I Know…Let’s Blame the... →
“Sometimes it seems to me that whenever things go wrong in college teaching, the first impulse of the professor is to blame the students. They aren’t prepared for class. They don’t want to grapple with the hard concepts. They don’t want to read what I assign. They do all their work at the last minute. And now, apparently, laptop computers in class have caused them to stop paying...
Digital Natives? Naive! - ProfHacker.com →
“The idea makes sense, of course, given that we recognize the massive cultural and cognitive shift that took place with the advent of widespread alphabetic literacy (which–let’s be honest–didn’t happen that long ago in human history: maybe a few hundred years). However, the available empirical evidence just doesn’t support the notion of a generation of digital natives who all share levels...
On Going Viral at the (Virtual) MLA - The... →
“As wonderful as it would be for the wasteland of academic career opportunities to be saved by the revivification of some Eliotic Adjunct King, it just can’t work that way. The problems of contingent academic labor are systemic and perhaps cannot be adequately addressed by a single department or even a university, let alone the blogosphere. But one solution is to make sure that those...
Open Collections Program: Reading - Harvard Views... →
“Reading: Harvard Views of Readers, Readership, and Reading History is an online exploration of the intellectual, cultural, and political history of reading as reflected in the historical holdings of the Harvard Libraries. For Internet users worldwide, Reading provides unparalleled digital access to a significant selection of unique source materials.”
Tumblr Migration
In what could end up being a failed experiment, I’ve decided to take JasonHeppler.org in a different direction. Rather than the bells and whistles of WordPress, I’ve decided that Tumblr may serve my purposes better in terms of sharing information. Sharing and writing on Tumblr is just as simple as sharing on Twitter, and my schedule seems to only allow for brief sharing opportunities...
