Points To Ponder
From Tgc
Locals and Tourists #106 (GTWA #37): Istanbul, by Eric Fischer http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/4672127450/in/set-72157624209158632/ (Blue pictures are by locals. Red pictures are by tourists. Yellow pictures might be by either. Base map © OpenStreetMap, CC-BY-SA )
a "bill of rights" for social-network users http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_15326665
Guillaume Marceau
on iPhone and restrictions on its openness.
In an interview with the creator of the fantastic program Scratch, which is used to get a little kid programming on their own, from their own sense of creativity, without teachers. Scratch just got denied from the App Store.
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/3q-resnick-scratch-0428.html
versus
Android's openness
Jace: Explanation for why Google's Android business model is as brilliant as it is. Why Android will dominate. http://www.visionmobile.com/blog/2010/04/is-android-evil/
David Szanton: in April I ran a dissertation workshop on "Popular Culture and Social Change in Asia," in which one of the students was doing very interesting empirical research on internet gaming in China. She was studying the social and class backgrounds of the gamers (mostly young men), the evolving social formations among them, to what extent they gamed in isolation or with others, and how this has changed over time as the economy has grown and more people have access to computers at home as opposed to having to go to cyber cafes.
The student's name is Marcella Szablewicz and she is doing her PhD dissertation at Renssalear Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in upstate New York in the Dept of Language and Literature. She might be there or back in Shanghai (or elsewhere) at the moment, ...
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