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Contents contributed and discussions participated by Gideon Burton

Gideon Burton

Video Games as Art (with tweet) · pcbills · Storify - 0 views

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    In addition to discussing an important topic in digital culture, Paul Bills exemplifies here a new format for the academic essay: Storify used to curate content to make and to frame claims about a topic.
Gideon Burton

The Fixer's Manifesto- the future needs fixing - sugru - 0 views

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    Interesting - the authors of the "Fixer's Manifesto" ask you to fix their manifesto and provide various ways of doing so. Great example of open content and open culture.
Gideon Burton

YouTube Refuses to Honor DMCA Counter-Notices - 0 views

  • Now instead of the copyright holder having to sue to keep the material offline, the only way a user can have his video restored is to sue the copyright claimant for a declaration that the video is not infringing and to secure an injunction forcing the copyright claimant to withdraw its copyright claim.
Gideon Burton

Online Communion Sparks Questions for Digital Age - 0 views

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    United Methodists debate online communion and open a conversation about religion in the digital age. Interestingly, they are using a hashtag #onlinecommunion as one way of generating discussion.
Gideon Burton

Romain David: Web, entrepreneuriat…Blog perso de l'un des fondateurs de Wisem... - 1 views

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    French blog post showing the evolution of the web toward curation as a main mode.
Gideon Burton

Pictures Over Experience? - 0 views

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    Analyzing the psychology and sociology of picture taking in the digital age.
Gideon Burton

Wired 12.10: The Long Tail - 0 views

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    Seminal article by Chris Anderson introducing the concept of the long tail
Gideon Burton

Digital Civilization: Social Discovery - 0 views

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    An early post that I did on social discovery
Gideon Burton

Getty, Liberation of Masterpieces as Open Content by $techgnotic on deviantART - 0 views

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    A bold move by an important institution to open up its content.
Gideon Burton

19 Wildly Specific Subreddits - 1 views

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    Example of highly specific niche communities
Gideon Burton

On Being an Entrepreneur: A Maker's Manifesto | Techli - 0 views

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    A romantic vision of the maker movement in this manifesto
Gideon Burton

Understanding Digital Civics | DMLcentral - 0 views

  • it would also be a mistake not to take seriously the role of new communications media in understanding civic life. In democratic states, citizens need information about what challenges a government faces and what it’s proposing to do about it to be effective citizens. And citizens need to be able to connect with one another to discuss, debate and propose solutions. What a communications medium makes possible has a shaping influence on civic life.
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