The University has publicly condemned a bill that would require publishers to approve open access to government-funded research.

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Some said Roland’s tweets about the H&M David Beckham Super Bowl ad were the equivalent of urging violence against gay men.

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About 200 students and faculty turned out for a magnificent presentation by Jim Groom last Friday. We wanted Jim to help us announce our “Ed Parkour” idea to the university faculty, and he didn’t disappoint. In typical Jim Groom fashion he “parkoured” right to the front of the room, launching himself down the steps and dropping to a roll, dislodging both of his microphones. Brent Anders (our generous and wonderful video technician) cringed a bit, but we were off and running again in no time. He  show all text

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Yes, it’s true: We are joining GigaOM. And the combined group will be a powerhouse, with more than 20 writers and editors, a strong presence on the East and West coasts and in Europe, and coverage of everything from media and big data, to the cloud and mobile, to book publishing and online video—not to mention the startup scene in various markets. It’s a very exciting development for us, as ContentNext and GigaOM share so many of the same goals and have such similar cultures. We both believe fu...  show all text

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Read reviews, get customer ratings, see screenshots, and learn more about The Making of the King James Bible for iPad on the App Store. Download The Making of the King James Bible for iPad and enjoy it on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

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Remember all that talk of how the supporters of SOPA/PIPA were "humbled" by the protests of January 18th, and how they had learned their lessons about trying to push through a bill without actually involving the stakeholders? Remember the...

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As Sky News clamps down on staff Twitter updates, corporation tells reporters to file copy before tweeting it BBC journalists have been told not to break news stories on Twitter before they tell their newsroom colleagues. The new rules, which apply to all of the corporation's correspondents, reporters and producers, were announced on Wednesday a day after it was revealed Sky News had told its journalists not to repost information from any Twitter users who are not an employee of the broadcaster...  show all text

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Last semester I taught my favorite book, Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves. With nightly reading assignments that take three to four hours, I expect students to fall behind. So I wasn’t surprised when, a few days in, I asked if everyone had done all the reading and the majority of the class avoided looking at me. Such are the occupational hazards of teaching. We’re only a few weeks into the semester, but experience shows that it’s never too early for students to get behind in their reading—...  show all text

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First the news: Yes, the rumors are true. We are indeed buying the assets of ContentNext Media from Guardian News & Media Limited. And no, we are not disclosing the terms of the deal, except that we are buying the entire group of properties — paidContent.org, mocoNews.net, contentSutra and paidContent:UK and that a representative of Guardian News & Media will join our board of directors as an observer. A few weeks ago when Paul Walborsky, CEO of GigaOM, came to the board and suggested that we ...  show all text

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Ed note: we are very pleased to welcome this guest post by Martin Mueller, professor of English and Classics at Northwestern University. Read more from Martin at his Scalable Reading blog. Is there or should there be a Digital Humanities? My very short answer to both questions is “no” and “no.” In a slightly longer answer I concede that a phrase must be about something if it is gaining currency. For me the something of the term is about the trouble that the humanities have had in absorbing digi...  show all text

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This is the final post in series exploring how the story of Orson Scot Card’s book Pastwatch gets readers to play with and explore their own models of the past. The first post discussed the way the book’s claim that we are living in an altered history helps us approach the past as a strange and peculiar set of events. The second post explored the “real” past of the story’s workd, suggesting that this extensive counterfactual argument has significant value for supporting the kind of causal argum...  show all text

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If you could design your ideal, digitally-equipped classroom, what would you do? We’ve published a few posts about this question. See, for example, “What Are Your Favorite Classrooms?,” “My Ideal Classroom, Part 1: Information Technology,” and “Redesigning the Classroom: Let’s Start with the Wall.” (You might also be interested in “Re-Imagining the Student Computer Lab.”) Today, I’d like to hear about your positive experiences with technology in the classroom. I think many (if not most) of us h...  show all text

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Media and Internet giants at odds over dealing with purloined content on the Web may need to agree first on exactly how bad the problem is.

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On popular Web sites, misinformation about antipiracy legislation amounted to an abuse of trust and a misuse of power.

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The following is a guest post by Nicholas Taylor, Information Technology Specialist for the Repository Development Group at the Library of Congress. As much as we can do to preserve archived websites once we have them, the challenges we encounter are always already determined by how those websites were originally constructed. In the interest of giving us and others the best possible chance of preserving your online content, I wanted to follow on an excellent blog post by Robin Davis (previously)  show all text

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Barry H. Landau pleads guilty in federal court to stealing historic documents from museums in several states including Maryland. Meanwhile, the Maryland Historic Society is having a news conference in which staffer who caught Landau is speaking for the first time.

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This morning, our Mozilla partners announced the “retooling” of the Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership under a new name, OpenNews. We ...

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Maybe cognitive friction in our reading experiences -- be it in typeface choice or annotation mechanism -- is a good thing. One of the really tough questions to answer in relation to any technology is: When do you make something easy and when do you make it hard? This problem is perhaps most obvious in the realm of game design, since people get bored by games that are too easy and get frustrated by games that are too hard. So game-makers have to learn to split the difference, which in pract...  show all text

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The study found that arrests of Muslim Americans in plots or violent attacks have dropped sharply since 2009.

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For those learning to code this year, either for professional reasons or to expand personal horizons, Codecademy has been a popular tool. Jason has written about Codecademy as a platform for code-literacy, and I discussed the Codeyear “new year’s resolution” initiative the site launched in January. Now the platform has expanded even further with the addition of tools that allow any user to create new courses and projects in JavaScript, Python and Ruby. Codecademy may not be a substitute for more  show all text

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In a new tactic for countering the data assault, offices are giving workers a second computer screen and sometimes a third.

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You can follow someone on Twitter and friend them on Facebook, but real friends are people you break bread with.

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