From the monthly archives:

January 2008

perpetual motion machine

by BethDunn on January 8, 2008

At the end of the day today I spoke for a long time with Rebecca Krause-Hardie, an Arts/Technology blogger with whom I appear to have a great deal in common. It was a free-wheeling conversation, not least, I suspect, because I had ingested very little besides several vats of coffee throughout the course of the [...]

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eight things meme

by BethDunn on January 7, 2008

“Eight things you (probably) didn’t know about me.” A few of the blogs I read have been bandying this one about, and since two of them decided against tagging anyone specific with it, I’m going to call myself tagged and take up the mantle myself. To keep up the thread, I’ll link myself back to [...]

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Ceci n'est pas une pipe

by BethDunn on January 6, 2008

One of the news articles I tagged for re-reading last week was this one from the Wall Street Journal – it’s from August 2007, but was recently tagged by somebody with the nptech tag. The article includes a nice round-up of online places — social networks and other tools — that young people have been [...]

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target practice

by BethDunn on January 6, 2008

The year is almost one week old.  I’ve been busy hanging art and making lists, but in the meantime I’ve been thinking about some of the year-end posts I’ve read recently about goals for 2008, resolutions, and the like. Now that my head is above water again, I went back and reread the ones I [...]

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video snacking for cultural organizations

by BethDunn on January 6, 2008

The New York Times published an article by Brian Stelter on Saturday about the growing trend of workers watching short videos online during their lunch breaks, either on YouTube, CNN.com, or elsewhere. “The trend — part of a broader phenomenon known as video snacking — is turning into a growth business for news and media [...]

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we're the young generation

by BethDunn on January 1, 2008

The New York Times reported the other day on the growing use of virtual worlds by young children, who are getting engaged in record numbers on sites like webkinz.com, Club Penguin (A Disney site that looks like Habbo), Pixie Hollow (another Disney site), and Nicktropolis (a Nickelodeon virtual world). As a nonprofit technologist, I’m interested [...]

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