Posts from ‘August, 2008’

Via New York Times - http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/28/us/politics/28media.html
By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
Published: August 27, 2008
DENVER — The musician will.i.am, who produced the hit video “Yes We Can” about Senator Barack Obama, calls the Democratic gathering here the first “batonical” convention.
That’s not botanical, as in gardens, but batonical, as in baton and the passing of. The [...]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JKgIa0MZiM]Author: Tyler Knowlton
With the announcement of closed captioning for youtube videos, the number of barriers to Federal Government use of the video sharing service are declining.
I’m going to try and get as close to compliance as possible today.
1. Official Languages Act - We live in a bilingual country and that’s the law. Uploading a [...]

By Ryan Paul | Published: August 29, 2008 - 06:15AM CT _ Via ARS Technica
A nonprofit open source advocacy group in Quebec is taking the provincial government to court over its software procurement policies. The group, which is called FACIL, contends that the government has failed to comply with contract regulations by consistently adopting foreign [...]

Via Tech Crunch http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/28/youtube-adds-closed-captioning/
YouTube has turned on the ability to add full closed captions to videos. This will not only allow videos to appeal more directly to foreign audiences, but will give YouTube excellent data for searching videos and targeting ads to them. After all, a complete set of subtitles is the same as a [...]

Original Location: http://www.com.motionpoll.ca/

One in two Canadian business leaders say social media is becoming more important than mass media. 46 per cent say social media tools such as Facebook, YouTube and blogs are becoming even more important than television, radio, newspapers and magazines.
The results are contained in a poll of 444 Canadian business and marketing leaders, [...]

Original Location: http://www.mediaincanada.com/articles/mic/20071129/recruitment.html by Carey Toane
This fall, prospective students got the skinny on the University of Manitoba direct from the mouths - or, rather, keyboards - of those who know best. Since mid-October, 16 U of M students and alumni have been sharing their experiences through individual blogs at www.itsmyfuture.ca.
Developed by Winnipeg-based McKim Cringan George [...]

New Media Consortium 2007 Horizon Report (PDF)
The core of the report describes six areas of emerging technology that will impact higher education within three adoption horizons over the next one to five years.

Original Source: PEW Internet http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/232/report_display.asp /9/2008 Lee Rainie
48% of internet users have been to video-sharing sites such as YouTube and the daily traffic to such sites on a typical day has doubled in the past year. The basic findings in a national phone survey that ended in December show:

48% of internet users said [...]

Original Source: http://chronicle.com/free/2008/01/1159n.htm
By JEFFREY R. YOUNG
Forget Lonelygirl15, YouTube’s 2006 online video phenom. Professors are the latest YouTube stars. The popularity of their appearances on YouTube and other video-sharing sites may end up opening up the classroom and making teaching—which once took place behind closed doors—a more public art.
What’s more, Web video opens a new form [...]

Original Source: http://www.socialtext.net/wiki-government-and-democracy/index.cgi?
For both emerging and established democratic societies, the Wikinomics<!– wiki-renamed-hyperlink “Wikinomics” –> era holds the promise and the inevitability of new models for delivering the functions of government. Government 2.0: Wikinomics, Government & Democracy is a global research project that will identify and analyze emerging opportunities to harness new models of collaboration to [...]