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Saturday 30 June 2012

Clay Shirky: How cellphones, Twitter, Facebook can make history


Clay Shirky's analysis of how new media, like Twitter, Face Book, etc. makes audiences increasingly  participatory and not just passive consumers of messages and ideas is important for understanding the impact of Web 2.0 and its heirs. Clay's TED Talk is now three years old yet its relevance and foresight is impressive.

Tuesday 26 June 2012

David Crystal on It's Only a Theory debunks myths on text messaging, spelling and writing


Brilliant stuff!

A New Literacy: Making Connections in Electronic Environments


Most young people today are reading and writing more than at any stage before the invention of the telephone, or perhaps even earlier! Web 2.0, 3.0 and 4.0, et al.