by Derek Morrison, 21 August 2009 It’s hard to think of a more ironic example of the new world order that media companies would like to inflict on us than that recently demonstrated by Amazon’s recent auto-deletion of George Orwell’s 1984 “purchased” by owners of Amazon’s Kindle ebook platform. The story was all over the […]
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On the video – a reflection on YouTube and friends (part 2)
November 13th, 2008
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In On the video: a reflection on YouTube and friends (part 1) I considered some of examples of online video usage some explicitly intended to be relevant to Higher Education and some originally created for other purposes. In part 2 I consider some of the hills and valleys of using – and not using – […]
eBooks and the e-learning ‘filling station’ revisited
September 25th, 2008
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by Derek Morrison, 25 September 2008 (addendum added 26 September 2008, Plastic Logic update 19 February 2009) In my November 2004 Auricle post A ‘filling station’ model of e-learning? I posited a ‘filling station’ view of e-learning which was at variance with the then dominant VLE view of the online learning world. I reflected on […]
Storm Clouds?
September 9th, 2008
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by Derek Morrison, 9 September 2008 (addendum added 26 September 2008) The recent release of Google’s Chrome is not intended to offer just another web browser to a marketplace already largely segmented by Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, Mozilla’s Firefox, or the eponymous Opera (plus a few other more minor players). No, Chrome is meant to advance […]
Lock-in, Lock out?
May 3rd, 2008
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by Derek Morrison, 3 May 2008 The central argument of Jonathan Zittrain’s book The Future of the Internet: And How to Stop It is that the concept of “generativity” that has been unleashed by Web 2.0 is being increasingly compromised by increasingly ubiquituous appliances that may do limited things well but which lock or tether […]
