founder of LibriVox.org, an all-volunteer project to make free public domain audiobooks. writes for the Huffinton Post about digital media and publishing, co-editor of datalibre.ca, and the President of the Board of Directors of the Atwater Library
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We live in a software culture - that is, a culture where the production, distribution, and reception of most content - and increasingly, experiences - is mediated by software. And yet, most creative professionals do not know anything about the intellectual history of software they use daily - be it Photoshop, GIMP, Final Cut, After Effects, Blender, Flash, Maya, or MAX.
business-to-business nexus of content, technology and business. the ContentAgenda.com community is comprised of leading executives from the media and entertainment, hardware, technology, government and policy making, financial and retail communities. Designed to be the one-stop source for the most up-to-date conversation and news, ContentAgenda.com features a comprehensive, global compendium of news reports on the home/personal entertainment industry powered by LexisNexis, the leading name in the information aggregation business, as well as user-configurable newsletters, RSS feeds, and whitepaper brokerage.
iSolon.org is a policy institute committed to exploring and advancing opportunities for democratic reform brought about by new information technologies. It focuses on the most difficult areas of democratic reform─where elected officials have a conflict of interest in bringing about reforms that might reduce their own power. Home of Citizens Assembly News Digest.
iSolon.org's Citizens Assembly Project also reports on citizens assembly developments throughout the world. Reporting on such developments is a joint project with iSolon.org's readers. iSolon.org carefully monitors the print press and blogosphere for reports on citizen assemblies, but it also gets much of its most valuable information from its readers.
Have a story you want to share about the role of technology in your life? Want to rant about a particularly unfair policy at your school surrounding internet use? Want to share your favorite new technological tool with us? Related to the book Born Digital and the initiative of the Digital Natives project, an interdisciplinary collaboration of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and the Research Center for Information Law at the University of St. Gallen.
The Digital Natives project is a collaboration between the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School and the Research Center for Information Law at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland.
The first Media in Transition conference was held in 1999 and marked the launch of the MIT graduate program in Comparative Media Studies. Since then, four bi-annual conferences have been held
ACM has a new Web site to complement its flagship print publication Communications of the ACM. The Web site offers exclusive news, opinion, research, information, extensive content from the current issue of Communications, the complete archived issues of the publication, access to searchable content from the ACM Digital Library and from other sources around the Web, and hosts a blog section.
CrunchBase is the free database of technology companies, people, and investors that anyone can edit. Here, you can learn and edit everything about companies like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, MySpace and Tagged, products like Droid and Google Wave, and people like Mark Zuckerberg and Steve Jobs.