Archive for November, 2005

Amazon.com Adds Wiki Power

WHOA!! Amazon has just added a Wiki for each product page, from the explanation:

What is a Wiki?
Wiki provides a way for you to share your knowledge about a topic. Wikis are written and edited by groups of people. When you contribute to a Wiki you join a community of other people knowledgeable in the [...]

Video of Revenge of the Female Nerds Talk

For those of you who wanted to but could not attend due to reasons beyond your control, we now have an archived version of Annalee Newitz’s talk on Revenge of the Female Nerds: Busting media and industry myths about why women can’t be technical. You can stream it here. (Note: in .rm format)
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Welcome Back, Kotter

The NYTimes is reporting on an AOLTime Warner program to release old, unsyndicated shows for free.

Programs on In2TV will have one to two minutes of commercials for each half-hour episode, compared with eight minutes in a standard broadcast. The Internet commercials cannot be skipped.
America Online, which is making a broad push into Internet video, will [...]

Revenge of the Female Nerds

Please join us for a talk by Annalee Newitz, author, columnist, and contributing of Wired Magazine on “Revenge of the Female Nerds: Busting media and industry myths about why women can’t be technical.” The event will be held on Thursday, Nov. 10 at 8pm in Pound 100, Harvard Law School (here’s a map). Drinks and [...]

Blog Journalism

I’m a bit behind-the-fold in replying to Ethan Zuckerman’s Halloween afternoon post about media coverage of the FreeCulture@NYU DRM protest, but it relates to a sister chapter of FreeCulture.org, and our discussion of the situation at last Wednesday’s FreeCulture chapter meeting here at Harvard got me thinking a bit about the future of blogs [...]