“The Library of Congress, through its National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP), today announced eight partnerships as part of its new Preserving Creative America initiative to address the long-term preservation of creative content in digital form. These partners will target preservation issues across a broad range of creative works, including digital photographs, cartoons, motion pictures, sound recordings and even video games. The work will be conducted by a combination of industry trade associations, private sector companies and nonprofits, as well as cultural heritage institutions.”
Month: August 2007
The banality of blogging or how does the web affect the public-private dichotomy
“Is blogging the means by which the €˜feminine’ voices previously excluded from public discourse and kept hidden in the €˜private’ sphere, can now be released? Is blogging a means of affirming the public character of private practices, ask Kambouri and Hatzopoulos.”
Forced to Pick a Major in High School
“Ninth graders often have trouble selecting what clothes to wear to school each morning or what to have for lunch. But starting this fall, freshmen at Dwight Morrow High School here in Bergen County must declare a major that will determine what electives they take for four years and be noted on their diplomas.”
NSBA Study: CREATING &CONNECTING//Research and Guidelines on Online Social €€? and Educational €€? Networking
The National School Boards Association has released a study on the student use of social networking and other web 2.0 tools. Link (PDF)
Andy Carvin has an interview with the authors of the report.
Study: Primary role of the Internet shifting from communications to content
“People are using time spent on the Internet to actually engage themselves in reading content more now than ever before, according to new data presented by the Online Publishers Association and Nielsen/NetRatings. The association released its four-year-long Internet Activity Index (IAI) today, which gauges people’s use of e-commerce, communications, content and search services over time. And while activities like e-commerce and communications still remain popular, reading and viewing content has skyrocketed between 2003 and today.”