Comments on: Episode 43 – Summer Wrap-up

By: E-Book Readers: Parables of Closed and Open

E-Book Readers: Parables of Closed and Open — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:56:51 +0000

[...] a discussion of e-book readers on a recent episode of Digital Campus, I made a comparison between Amazon’s Kindle and Apple’s iPod which I think more or [...]

By: Mike Dickison

Mike Dickison — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:16:44 +0000

So happy to see you guys have returned; I was hoping you hadn’t fallen prey to the interminable hiatus that hits so many blogs. Loving profhacker too; good pick.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:45:23 +0000

Good to hear you again. Your discussion about the increasing flows of real-time digital information was interesting. If you are looking for a backlash, I’m happy to provide one! (Along with Mills, I suspect.) Maybe I’m just still resistant to an assumption that the new reality necessitates some loss of control over the information space, as you mention (though the sense of loss of control over my time makes me even more grumpy). In fact, the thing I have always loved most about the Internet is how it untethers me from needing to be in a particular time or place to accomplish some task – whether it’s shopping, finding information, communicating via email, etc. For me, Twitter, texting, status updates, etc. reverses this; it’s like going back to a time when people sat waiting by the phone in case a call came in. (The fact that people can now take their phones with them doesn’t make it any better, in my opinion.)

Bottom line, unless and until we have better tools to manage this information I think it’s incumbent upon anyone sending out important information – whether individuals or institutions – to be respectful of the fact that not everyone is (or wants to be) hanging on their every word as it issues forth.

Alright, rant over…

By: Bryan Alexander

Bryan Alexander — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:14:44 +0000

Welcome back, Digital Campus!
Will be listening to this over the next week, I suspect.

By: Tom Scheinfeldt

Tom Scheinfeldt — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:37:44 +0000

Thanks, Julian. Great tip. In the past we’ve also used SubEthaEdit, which I don’t think we mentioned either.

http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/

Tom

By: julian

julian — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 02:55:07 +0000

Nice to have you back

Regarding online collaboration tools and Google Wave etc, there is another collaboration tool that you did not mention
http://etherpad.com/
Users can all update the same document online in real time

By: Hevel.org: A Chasing after Wind » Blog Archive » What will the future hold for Humanities journals?

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:30:35 +0000

[...] I heard about this study on the future of humanities journals in the new episode of the Digital Humanities podcast. [...]