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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eBook development gets newspapers “out of gaol”?
July 7th, 2009
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by Derek Morrison, 7 July 2009 Does the following represent as possible “get out of gaol” for the newspaper industry? Or is it just an interesting cul de sac? The current generation of ebook readers don’t do visual multimedia, they try to be a two dimensional paper analogue; al la paperback format, e.g. Sony Reader […]
Project Canvas
March 7th, 2009
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by Derek Morrison, 7 March 2009 The BBC’s iPlayer is undoubtedly successful but yet the service constrains its users to viewing its streamed or downloaded material on a computer. Not for much longer apparently. Over on the BBC Trust site we find an account of Project Canvas which in essence seems to be broadband connection […]
Digital Britain? Going beyond the digital dirt track?
January 30th, 2009
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by Derek Morrison, 30 January 2009 (updated 14 February 2009 The UK’s Department of Culture, Media and Sport published the Digital Britain – Interim report yesterday (29 January 2009). It’s notable that the “white heat of technology” ethos still reigns supreme in this report, e.g. Download article as PDF
Kangaroo tied down
December 13th, 2008
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by Derek Morrison, 13 December 2008 So the UK Competition Commmission has put a barrier in the way of the launch on the joint BBC, ITV, and Channel 4 Video on Demand (VoD) service with the working title of the Kangaroo project (perhaps to be called the SewSaw VoD portal?) Sky and Virgin Media weren’t […]
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 […]
e-Learning: Opportunities and Threats in the 21st Century
June 16th, 2006
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I’m playing catch-up here but I did promise the University of Chester that I would add some further narrative to my image rich (but text poor) slides supporting the keynote ‘e-Learning: Opportunities and Threats in the 21st Century’ I gave at their recent annual staff conference (25 May 2006). Here, therefore, is my ‘value added’. […]
