We talk a lot about livestreaming and broadcasting at DTLT. It has quickly become one of the core focuses of our group through projects like DTLT Today and the purchase of our own Kit. We made the proposal to the Teaching Center at UMW to have a kit that would allow us flexibility to go - Read More -
❖ From the blog: Twitter and the 140 Character Limit is.gd/1CNRop #restrictions #limits @timmmmyboy @twitter Let’s fix this eh? #### — Tim Owens (@timmmmyboy) December 9, 2011 Twitter has been around for several years now and iterated constantly during that time. In some cases they have made changes to core features that folks have used - Read More -
Andy Baio (who you might remember from the big Kind of Bloop copyright mess) has written an excellent piece on copyright in a culture that legitimately does not see this as a legal issue. He points out that under current law every cover song, mashup album, and fanfic story are all illegal and there is - Read More -
Seems like lately I’m coming across more and more featured artwork that could easily be wrapped into a ds106 assignment. Such is the case with these great 1997 versions of popular websites. Google Plus, Facebook, and YouTube make an appearance here (and I love that the artists used Netscape Navigator to frame them!) but I - Read More -
I’ve become pretty accustomed to taking screenshots anytime I wanted to talk about something someone posted on Twitter. Of course there’s Storify which is cool in its own right, but I can’t say that creating a new “story” and searching for tweets, putting it all together, and publishing, and then moving to the blog to - Read More -
Alex Prager has a series of video portraits on the New York Times that is absolutely haunting and excellent. I love the idea of using a minute or so of film to capture an idea, a portrait, with stunning visuals. It adds a layer of cinematography to a portrait that makes for a really compelling - Read More -
