The article “Archivists Struggle to Preserve Crucial Records as Paper Gives Way to Pixels” in The Chronicle of Higher Education, by Florence Olsen, addresses the concerns over maintaining records of online information. The article focuses on important university documentation.
Several questions came to mind regarding the article:
1) If the information discussed is so crucial, why wasn’t [...]
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Preserving Crucial Records
Posted in Evolution & Trends, Questions, tagged archive, digital, preservation, record, university on February 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Improving WAP Usabililty
Posted in Mobile Media, Questions, tagged Mobile, mobile best practices, WAP on February 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The document “Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0” by W3C provides basic guidelines for improving mobile Web site usability. This is a useful reference document for mobile site creators. From an academic perspective, the paper provides useful insights as to why certain features are or are not acceptable on the mobile platform.
For example, W3C’s regulatory suggestions [...]
Confuse-a-Consumer
Posted in Mobile Media, Questions, tagged Mobile, ringtone on February 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
According to the About.com posting, “Jamster Slammed for Mobile Selling Practices,” by Stephen Lawson, the ringtone company Jamster/VeriSign was in a business of ill-repute in 2005.
Some questions come to mind while reading Lawson’s article:
1) Did Cingular acquire AT&T or vice versa? Lawson states “Cingular, which now owns AT&T Wireless…”
2) Analyst Eddie Hold metions “confused subscribers” [...]
Technology mediamorphosis
Posted in Evolution & Trends, Questions, tagged Communications, Mediamorphosis, Roger Fidler on February 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I enjoyed reading the Technologies of the Third Mediamorphosis chapter of Roger Fidler’s 1997 book, “Mediamorphosis Understanding New Media.”One of his main points is that despite common perception, the catalytic events for today’s digital media presence occurred before World War II. The chapter made me question which of these generally comes first: the need for [...]
As We May Think – Questions
Posted in Evolution & Trends, Questions, tagged As We May Think, Bush on February 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Based on the article “As We May Think”:
1. What kind of civilian-physicist response was there post-war that encouraged Vannevar Bush to publish this article? (ex: were the physicists themselves really THAT impacted? They most likely had physicist-type jobs before the war led them to war-time physics; what prevented them from returning to that type of pre-war work?)
2. [...]
“The Wireless Application Marketplace”
Posted in Mobile Media, Questions, Reflection, tagged application marketplace, cell, open, wireless on January 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The recent article on the stock market news Web site Seeking Alpha, “The Wireless Application Marketplace: Apple, Google, Microsoft and RIMM” by Option Dragon, offers a look at the emergence of wireless application marketplaces.
With the huge success of Apple’s iPhone App Store, other industry leaders are rushing to get a share of the market. [...]
Collective Action Questions
Posted in Net-centric Economics, Questions on August 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Questions for Collective Action speaker:
Do you see collective action as more of a pro or con for society?
(Any pre- and post-digital age examples?)
Can a rise in collective action be seen in parallel with the rise of the digital age?
What do you expect the reaction to future collective action to be?
(Embraced vs. feared?)
Questions for Rheingold
Posted in Net-centric Economics, Questions on August 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Guest Lecture (skype in): Howard Rheingold, author, Smart Mobs:
1) What are the future (or present) regulations for controlling harmful smart mobs?
2) What digital-related career areas do you foresee being ones for which this is a good time to “get in” early, or which companies/fields? (or one that is still “early” to the outside world)
3) What [...]
The Long Tail questions
Posted in Net-centric Economics, Questions on July 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Three discussion questions regarding Chris Anderson’s The Long Tail:
Page 186 addresses the decline of newspapers and the prevalence of blogs. Compared to newspapers, blogs have “more checks and balances,” “specialize in particular topics,” and have “virtually no costs.” There is no mention of ethics in this section at all. What role to ethics play these days? [...]
