During the last Sask NDP leadership race, I spent a lot of time analysing the social media aspects of each candidate’s campaign. As we get another leadership race underway, the social media landscape has changed and grown, both in terms of services available and also the reach of sites like Facebook, Twitter and numerous other […]
A variety of factors – from a depressed economy to a heightened environmental awareness to increasing urbanized living – means that many young people are rejecting the traditional signifiers of economic success – houses and cars -in favour of alternatives such as smart phones and shared living arrangements. What this may mean for the economy […]
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Posted 23 August 2012
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Lots to think about in this interview and presentation… Some choice quotes… We don’t have to wait to see if social media and crowdsourcing and mobile data in the cloud are going to add up to anything useful. It’s happened. These things are real, now today….We need to change our collective mindset from “let’s be […]
A colleague sent me this article about a new augmented reality device – a ring with an embedded camera that can snap photos of objects then send that photo to a smartphone which can, in turn, analyse and provide feedback about what is being seen – colours, prices, etc. This hits two areas of interest […]
3-D printing is an emerging technology that has the potential to be quite revolutionary. It allows users to “print” three dimensional replicas of real world objects in a variety of materials (usually plastic or something similar.) I first heard of 3-D printing when I saw a TV show about how Jay Leno, a noted antique […]
The C-64 was the first computer I interacted with on a regular basis. My elementary school had one at the back of the Grade Six classroom (along with a homeroom teacher who was a pretty big nerd when that wasn’t as cool as it is today!) and we would spend hours (or at least it […]
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Posted 01 August 2012
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The Universal: Television, The Internet and the End of Space & Time (PDF w/ Speaking Notes) from headtale When I did my favourite presentation ever in library school where I looked at the future of broadcasting in a Media Studies course on the History of Communication, I may have made one mistake. At the time, […]
I made a reference to my blog undergoing botox treatments yesterday which was more than a bit intentional as I have indeed restored some youthful vigour to this blog. After starting my first blog on the Blogware platform at blog.jason.hammond.net back in 2006 when I was in library school, I ended up with two blogs after […]
The classic children’s book gets re-imagined for our modern age.
After being one of the hottest web properties and spurning a $200 MILLION dollar offer from Google, user-driven voting site Digg was sold last week for a measley $500,000. Some commentators thought it was competition from user-driven sharing sites like Facebook and Twitter that put the nail in Digg’s coffin but ignored the rise of […]
