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27 septembre 2019

Movie Piracy Claims More Fiction Than Fact

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Movie Piracy Claims More Fiction Than Fact
According to a "steady stream" of news articles, Canada is one of the hotbeds of movie piracy. The problem with this 'news' is that it is based mostly on fiction. The percentage of movies camcorded is overstated. The financial impact of camcorded copies is exaggerated. Suggestions that the law doesn't deal with camcording are simply wrong. More...

27 septembre 2019

Web 2.0 - SOA and AJAX - the Next Killer App?

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Web 2.0 - SOA and AJAX - the Next Killer App?
I was pleased today to discover that Bill St. Arnaud has a blog - I remember a decade ago reading (and gaining a lot from) his regular email newsletter. Anyhow, in this post he links to two articles to make the comment: "There is no Web 2.0 without SOA (Service Oriented Architecture)... SOA doesn't need Web 2.0 [but] Web 2.0 does need SOA... SOA lacks a face; that's where AJAX comes in - it puts a face on SOA." If course, this is to depict Web 2.0 as nothing more than the fancy AJAX interfaces. More...

27 septembre 2019

The End of Captain Copyright

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The End of Captain Copyright
Access Copyright is killing Captain Copyright, a misleading propaganda campaign on file sharing aimed at Canadian children. For teachers who ordered "literally hundreds" of Captain Copyright packs, Michael Geist recommends Copyright, copyleft and everything in between, a multimedia curriculum on copyright alternatives in South Africa. More...

27 septembre 2019

Copyright Policy

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Copyright Policy
If you are involved in copyright and licensing in Canada, you don't want to miss this collection of studies, recently made public by Canadian Heritage. As Michael Geist notes, the list was recently released by the Copyright Policy Branch (and I echo his kudos to the Branch for doing this). There's a lot to absorb, but among the studies you'll want to be sure to look at Economic Impact of WIPO Ratification on Private Copying Regime ("the new outflow is from Canadian consumers to foreign copyright holders, and the new inflow is from foreign consumers to Canadian copyright holders") and also The Economic Impact of Canadian Copyright Industries - Sectoral Analysis" - take some time and look at the graphs documenting the trade deficit (outflow to foreign copyright holders) and ponder what the impact of exaggerating that deficit - through more stringent legislation and ratification of WIPO - would be. More...

27 septembre 2019

Blackboard Makes a Pledge

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Blackboard Makes a Pledge
More on the Blackboard pledge. Inside Higher Ed comes in with comprehensive and well-source coverage showing, I think, that nobody is satisfied with the Blackboard pledge, and more than a few think Blackboard was "misleading" in the way it portrayed, in its press release, support from Sakai and EDUCAUSE. More commentary (all negative) from Barry Dahl, Mark Oehlert, Joseph Hart, Seb Schmoller. meanwhile, we have this very odd report about an email sent to the "Blackboard Community" containing a very very misleading interpretation of the Sakai-EDUCAUSE statement. More...

27 septembre 2019

Media Education Kit Published by UNESCO

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Media Education Kit Published by UNESCO
Pretty good and comprehensive media awareness kit, beginning with the nature and impact of traditional media and continuing through to many internet services and practices. Worth noting is the authors' extensive use of Wikipedia in the internet section. Also new to me was the story of how Celestin Freinet introduced a printing press to his classroom and watched as the students took it upon themselves to learn the art of newspaper production. "The pupils wrote down their own personal adventures, the incidents that they had experienced inside and outside the classroom, and so on. Usually these texts were then presented to the class, discussed, corrected and edited by the class as a whole before being finally printed by the children themselves working together. Freinet called this approach Free Writing ('Texte libre')". More...

27 septembre 2019

New Criteria for New Media

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. New Criteria for New Media
The thesis is that traditional criteria for assessment - such as publication in traditional journals - is inadequate for evaluation of work done in new media, partially because of the medium but mostly because of the time lag before publication. Alternatives suggested are invited publications, conference presentations, citations, downloads and influence. Sounds good to me. There is also an expanded version of this paper in wiki form, waiting for your contributions. More...

27 septembre 2019

The Internet and the Threat It Poses to Local Media: Lessons From News in the Schools

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The Internet and the Threat It Poses to Local Media: Lessons From News in the Schools
In a nutshell: "Internet-based news is trumping both television news and the daily newspaper as a mode of classroom instruction." The rest lies in how you portray it; one person's "threat" is another person's "liberation". Also interesting to note: "NIE (Newspaper In Education) program directors are only vaguely aware of the Internet's inroads on newspaper use in the classroom." Note to research authors: this survey consisted of 1,262 respondents, not 5. More...

27 septembre 2019

Collaborative Building in Second Life

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Collaborative Building in Second Life
This video is a very good demonstration of how an environment like Second Life can be useful (and no, it doesn't have a single lecture theatre of video screen in it). (P.S. the author of this blog continues to remain anonymous - making me wonder whether it's marketing rather than a real blog. More...

27 septembre 2019

The Wizard of SOA

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The Wizard of SOA
Some refreshingly blunt coverage of SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) - the much touted Next Big Thing (after 2L, that is). "This is what I don't get: a) we have to pay for it (licensing more products) and b) we have to develop it (and development of SOA applications seems overly complex to me)." Every time I talk to people about the Semantic Web (always in caps) and SOA, they are always talking enterprise. But think about it - when was the last time something developed for the enterprise had any great influence? The things that make real change - and therefore are really the Next Big Thing - are always (always) small, simple and personal. More...

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