dude, that’s so punk rock

So my Facebook friends, and my other friends, and the people in the cubicles next to me, and, well, anyone who has ever heard me speak knows that I’m not a big fan of the Blackboard learning management system. Despite having some good interactions over email with Karen Gage and the group of people [...]

Notes from the freeculture front

From this — The Future of Online Music: Why Closed Platforms Will Fail –
Alternatively, the disappearance of an open platform could spell the end of DRM technology altogether, at least for digital music. Since I believe strongly that the market in the end must and will be based on interoperable digital formats, if DRM is [...]

historians harnessing the web 2.0

I saw this on the American Historical Association blog today - the AHA is maintaining an archives wiki - a clearinghouse of information for researchers with everything they need to know before heading off to a new archive. I went there expecting to see the usual just-launched wiki with more promise than content and [...]

YouTube & me