shouting loudly

This is brilliant on so many levels.

[This is more of a holiday-cheer post than my usual academic blog entries.  'Tis the season...]
In Convergence Culture, Henry Jenkins’s excellent work on the various effects of digital media on media production/culture, “convergence” takes on multiple meanings.  Part of what makes it such a good book is that all of these meanings are true.  Media [...]

Just a quick, 24-hours-overdue thanks to the folks at the Newsweek Dev Team for hosting me last night at their third News/Geek event.
I had a rollicking good time, the questions were awesome, and the post-talk celebration was even better. If you want the Powerpoint, it’s here in all its 12.2 MB glory.
Further discussion welcome.

It is with a joyous heart that I welcome our latest co-conspirator contributor, Paul Falzone.
Like the rest of us, he has a big “Penn” stamp on his arse, having earned his PhD from Annenberg in 2008. He started in 2003 (same year as Jason and me), and it quickly became apparent that he was a [...]

The MTA is so zealous in their enforcement of trademark and copyright that, at least according to one blogger, they’ve already censored me.
That was news to me, but it wouldn’t have surprised anybody if it were true. Here’s what is:
On July 25, I uploaded this design to CafePress:

CafePress took down the design within 30 minutes [...]

Do you want to know how Wikipedia was able to become such an incredible success? Who the people behind its success are? The best book to learn about the history and the culture of Wikipedia is Andrew Lih’s new book “The Wikipedia Revolution“, launched last week. He was at Harvard last night to give [...]

Just submitted my final batch of grades for the Fall 08 semester and thought I’d celebrate with a long-overdue trip over to xkcd. What do I find, but this quip about Somerville, Massachusetts:
 
 
He obviously made these up, but SOOOO funny! In a snake-eating-its-tail outcome, see the Google Trends result for “I hate this website”, which spiked [...]