Kids and Media Exposure

Kids and Media Exposure: "
Here’s a slide from a Kaiser Family Foundation report in the US called Generation M2: Media in the Lives of 8-to-18 Year Olds, (2010).



Here is a link to the report (85 page pdf).

Stephen
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The global scope of library activity

The global scope of library activity: "

Some cool stats from OCLC’s NextSpace newsletter:

The global scope of library activity

We big.

Stephen

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A more entertaining way to watch water boil

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A more entertaining way to watch water boil

[YouTube Video]

Egg Watchers is a great concept. You just tell the system what size of egg you're boiling, whether or not the egg is refrigerator-cold, and how well-done you want it. Then, you're set up with a YouTube video that will end at approximately the same time your egg is done.


No more boring waiting around! For an 8 min. 30 sec. extra-large hard egg, I was treated to the delightful educational mockumentary above.


My only complaint: I'd love to see this concept expanded to a full-on YouTube-based cooking timer. I've got 15 minutes for this pasta to boil, how will the Internet entertain me?


Eggwatchers

(Thanks, Laura Browning!)

After 3 months, Newsday's web site gets 35 subscribers

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After 3 months, Newsday's web site gets 35 subscribers

In October Newsday (a Long Island daily paper that was sold for $650 million) began charging for online access. The price is $5 per week. In three months 35 people have subscribed.

The web site redesign and relaunch cost the Dolans $4 million, according to Mr. Jimenez. With those 35 people, they've grossed about $9,000.
In that time, without question, web traffic has begun to plummet, and, certainly, advertising will follow as well.

After Three Months, Only 35 Subscriptions for Newsday's Web Site

Lessig on Copyright and Culture: "Things could have been different"

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Lessig on Copyright and Culture: "Things could have been different"

For the Love of Culture, Google, Copyright and our Future. Astute and moving commentary by Lawrence Lessig, a love letter to the real-space library.

Whatever your view of it, notice first just how different this future promises to be. In real libraries, in real space, access is not metered at the level of the page (or the image on the page). Access is metered at the level of books (or magazines, or CDs, or DVDs). You get to browse through the whole of the library, for free. You get to check out the books you want to read, for free. The real-space library is a den protected from the metering of the market. It is of course created within a market; but like kids in a playroom, we let the life inside the library ignore the market outside.

This freedom gave us something real. It gave us the freedom to research, regardless of our wealth; the freedom to read, widely and technically, beyond our means. It was a way to assure that all of our culture was available and reachable--not just that part that happens to be profitable to stock. It is a guarantee that we have the opportunity to learn about our past, even if we lack the will to do so. The architecture of access that we have in real space created an important and valuable balance between the part of culture that is effectively and meaningfully regulated by copyright and the part of culture that is not. The world of our real-space past was a world in which copyright intruded only rarely, and when it did, its relationship to the objectives of copyright was relatively clear.

We forget all this today.

New program combines technology, community service

New program combines technology, community service: "
Students at six schools from across the country are taking part in a pilot program that uses 'service learning' as a way to revitalize their schools and communities while gaining valuable 21st-century skills.
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