Furl http://www.furl.net/ http://backend.userland.com/rss http://www.furl.net/member/davidjennings.rss Furl archive. Sat, 05 Jul 2008 11:02:21 GMT http://www.furl.net/item/35145737/forward http://www.furl.net/item/35145737 Includes free downloads of several chapters of Jay Cross's book. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:26:15 GMT E-learning 3 http://www.furl.net/item/35144402/forward http://www.furl.net/item/35144402 Freeman Dyson book review on global warming. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:51:11 GMT Politics William Nordhaus is a professional economist, and his book A Question of Balance: Weighing the Options on Global Warming Policies describes the global-warming problem as an economist sees it. He is not concerned with the science of global warming or with the detailed estimation of the damage that it may do. He assumes that the science and the damage are specified, and he compares the effectiveness of various policies for the allocation of economic resources in response. His conclusions are largely independent of scientific details. He calculates aggregated expenditures and costs and gains. Everything is calculated by running a single computer model which he calls DICE, an acronym for Dynamic Integrated Model of Climate and the Economy. 3 http://www.furl.net/item/35084981/forward http://www.furl.net/item/35084981 The sad and slightly squalid tale of business that will increase your apparent MySpace popularity for a fee - and the bands that resort to using them Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:21:58 GMT Digital music Music labels looking for new talent apparently realize that MySpace play counts are not reliable indicators of a band's actual popularity, although many fans likely don't. Bands and labels alike have additional motivation to use these services. These play counts are the basis for MySpace's music charts, and many of them are legitimate. MySpace plans to launch its own music service, and might end up showcasing or otherwise promoting those artists who appear to have had a significant number of plays, resulting in potential sales revenue for artists with legitimately high play counts. 3 http://www.furl.net/item/35084897/forward http://www.furl.net/item/35084897 Neil Young is considering licensing his blu-ray developments as a platform. Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:10:08 GMT Digital music When I met legendary rocker Neil Young recently, he was pretty disparaging about iTunes. It’s like all new digital media technologies, he said: great for convenience, but the sound quality sucks (since I have a tin ear when it comes to music, I’ll leave others to judge the validity of that comment. But Peter Gabriel, another musician who’s been working on new ideas for distributing digital music, certainly agrees.) Young let slip that he is now talking to record companies about licensing an alternative digital platform that he has been working on - something , he claimed, of far higher quality that could provide an alternative to the privacy-prone download world, and perhaps even a new business model for music. 3 http://www.furl.net/item/35052992/forward http://www.furl.net/item/35052992 Well, it's good that research by RadioCentre says that radio is still important... Most of the new media research has shown the same, but what's telling that the proportion reporting that the internet is an important source of discovery is up from around 5% two years ago to 24%. Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:05:09 GMT Digital music The research is also good news for emerging musicians because 71% of those surveyed say radio introduced them to an artist they would not have heard elsewhere. 68% of respondents said that hearing music on the radio influenced them to go out and purchase it, compared to just 24% for the internet and 22% for TV. 3 http://www.furl.net/item/35042784/forward http://www.furl.net/item/35042784 The new last.fm API now offers "write support" so applications can not just read the data in music profiles but write to it as well. Tue, 01 Jul 2008 07:54:31 GMT Digital music To do so, the API offers a new user authentication protocol that will let developers build apps that create "user sessions," which will allow apps to utilize both read and write services - meaning, the apps aren't limited to just pulling information from Last.fm, they can send info back to the service as well. While this is big news because it means Last.fm's API now offers write support, some people aren't happy that they chose to go with their own authentication protocol instead of using a more mainstream one like OpenID or OAuth instead. 3 http://www.furl.net/item/35018066/forward http://www.furl.net/item/35018066 Guidance on developing your wikis, based loosely on Christopher Alexander's pattern language. Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:26:10 GMT Digital culture Looking to spur wiki adoption? Want to grow from 10 users to 100, or 1000? Applying patterns that help coordinate people's efforts and guide the growth of content, and recognizing anti-patterns that might hinder growth - can give your wiki the greatest chance of success.Wikipatterns.com is a toolbox of patterns & anti-patterns, and a guide to the stages of wiki adoption. It's also a wiki, which means you can help build the information based on your experiences! Beyond this site, there are many other additional resources. 3 http://www.furl.net/item/35017459/forward http://www.furl.net/item/35017459 Useful to have someone debunking the whole millennial/digital native classification Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:55:20 GMT Digital culture This blog is dedicated to debunking the myth of the net generation, particularly as it relates to learning, teaching and the use of technology. By using this forum I hope to start a conversation around this issue and promote an informed discussion of strategies that postsecondary institutions can use to harness the power of Web 2.0 and other learning technologies that is based in fact not rhetoric. 3 http://www.furl.net/item/35017106/forward http://www.furl.net/item/35017106 Interesting pamphlet, available for free download on Lulu Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:32:18 GMT Digital culture The Situated Technologies Pamphlet series explores the implications of ubiquitous computing for architecture and urbanism: How is our experience of the city and the choices we make in it affected by mobile communications, pervasive media, ambient informatics, and other “situated” technologies? How will the ability to design increasingly responsive environments alter the way architects conceive of space? What do architects need to know about urban computing and what do technologists need to know about cities? Situated Technologies Pamphlets will be published in nine issues and will be edited by a rotating list of leading researchers and practitioners from architecture, art, philosophy of technology, comparative media study, performance studies, and engineering. 3 http://www.furl.net/item/34914475/forward http://www.furl.net/item/34914475 A kind of 'intelligent/personalised shuffle' service for playing music on iPhones. Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:23:30 GMT Digital music Playlists The random shuffle was a cool feature when it first launched. But, let's be honest, it left out the most important element: you. After all, your taste in music isn't random-it's instinctive. That's why Instinctive Shuffle was created. This smart new app goes far beyond the random shuffle and actually makes song recommendations to match whatever mood you're in. So you can explore and experience your music in a whole new way. To rediscover your music, just download Instinctiv Shuffle™ to your iPhone, start playing your music, and skip the songs you don't like. Instinctiv Shuffle™ does the rest, learning what you want to hear-when you want to hear it. 3