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Delila Osmankovic

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  • Delila Osmankovic on 01 Mar 10
     
    TigerText is an iPhone application which promises to delete text messages from the receiver's phone after a set period. Billed as a tool for adulterers.
Frankie Virgili

Scan This Book! - New York Times - 0 views

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  • At the same time, once digitized, books can be unraveled into single pages or be reduced further, into snippets of a page. These snippets will be remixed into reordered books and virtual bookshelves. Just as the music audience now juggles and reorders songs into new albums (or "playlists," as they are called in iTunes), the universal library will encourage the creation of virtual "bookshelves" — a collection of texts, some as short as a paragraph, others as long as entire books, that form a library shelf's worth of specialized information. And as with music playlists, once created, these "bookshelves" will be published and swapped in the public commons.
    • Joe Miano
      Joe Miano on 31 Mar 10
       
      This passage raises the concerns about retaining the integrity of books and other intellectual works. The reduction of an author's works into "snippets" that can be arranged at will by web users opens doors to taking the work out of context. Also, the author may find that most of their work is not presented in the fashion that they intended and that many people who would have otherwise read the entire work have simply relied on selected remixes of the texts.
  • We can provide all the works of humankind to all the people of the world.
  • When books are deeply linked, you'll be able to click on the title in any bibliography or any footnote and find the actual book referred to in the footnote.
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  • On this screen, now visible to one billion people on earth, the technology of search will transform isolated books into the universal library of all human knowledge.
  • The first was a new copyright law passed by Congress in 1976. According to the new law, creators no longer had to register or renew copyright; the simple act of creating something bestowed it with instant and automatic rights. By default, each new work was born under private ownership rather than in the public commons.
  • (This is to be expected. The fact is, entire industries and the fortunes of those working in them are threatened with demise. Newspapers and magazines, Hollywood, record labels, broadcasters and many hard-working and wonderful creative people in those fields have to change the model of how they earn money. Not all will make it.)
    • Joe Miano
      Joe Miano on 31 Mar 10
       
      It is certainly true that media and publishers will need to change their business model to accomodate the digital age. Even Kevin Kelly admits here that "not all will make it", and most won't if copyrights do not allow authors to have basic controll of how their content is accessed and distributed.
  • The major problem for large publishers is that they are not certain what they actually own. If you would like to amuse yourself, pick an out-of-print book from the library and try to determine who owns its copyright. It's not easy. There is no list of copyrighted works. The Library of Congress does not have a catalog. The publishers don't have an exhaustive list, not even of their own imprints (though they say they are working on it).
  • It is so good, in fact, that we can now state a new covenant: Copyrights must be counterbalanced by copyduties. In exchange for public protection of a work's copies (what we call copyright), a creator has an obligation to allow that work to be searched.
Joe Miano

Reading and the Web - Texts Without Context - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • AT THE SAME time the Internet’s nurturing of niche cultures is contributing to what Cass Sunstein calls “cyberbalkanization.” Individuals can design feeds and alerts from their favorite Web sites so that they get only the news they want, and with more and more opinion sites and specialized sites, it becomes easier and easier, as Mr. Sunstein observes in his 2009 book “Going to Extremes,” for people “to avoid general-interest newspapers and magazines and to make choices that reflect their own predispositions.”
    • Joe Miano
      Joe Miano on 31 Mar 10
       
      I really reject what Cass Sunstein is saying here. He is lamenting that people are finding outlets of news and opinion that they like or agree with. Just because these outlets are not to his liking or approval, he labels them as extreme and suggests that we use sources that he approves of. This is the mentality of censureship and is contrary to free speech. It treats people like we are too ingnorant to make decisions about ascertaining news and opinion.
  • All too often, however, the recycling and cut-and-paste esthetic has resulted in tired imitations; cheap, lazy re-dos; or works of “appropriation” designed to generate controversy
    • Joe Miano
      Joe Miano on 31 Mar 10
       
      Digital media has definitely created more opportunity for plagiarism, and re-use of work without permission. This loss of control over creative work has irked many creators because they find that there work is presented in wasy that they never intended. I remember reading an article a month or so ago saying that Pink Floyd had sued their record label for allowing their Dark Side of the Moon album to be sold on iTunes as individual songs. Floyd did not like that because all of the songs on that album seamlessly flow from one to a next, so selling individual songs would completely lose that.
  • “Reading in the traditional open-ended sense is not what most of us, whatever our age and level of computer literacy, do on the Internet,” the scholar Susan Jacoby writes in “The Age of American Unreason.” “What we are engaged in — like birds of prey looking for their next meal — is a process of swooping around with an eye out for certain kinds of information.”
    • Joe Miano
      Joe Miano on 31 Mar 10
       
      That is very true, I notice that when I surf the web for news or research I rarely read the entire article. Only after I narrow down the results to what I think is most relevant will I really read the whole piece.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 31 Mar 10
       
      I feel this is true as well. When I read over an article, I either skim through or look for the most important parts.
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  • which suggests that increased Internet use is rewiring our brains, impairing our ability to think deeply and creatively even as it improves our ability to multitask.
    • Joe Miano
      Joe Miano on 31 Mar 10
       
      I think that this should be interpeted as a call for moderation in activity. There are both pros and cons to traditional books and digital media, and probably it is best to become proficient at both.
  • He points out that much of the chatter online today is actually “driven by fan responses to expression that was originally created within the sphere of old media,” which many digerati mock as old-fashioned and passé, and which is now being destroyed by the Internet
    • Joe Miano
      Joe Miano on 31 Mar 10
       
      Interesting point, I have noticed that on sites like YouTube, many users are still devoted fans to older music and movies and this enthusiasm does not seem to be present in newer film/music.
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