This week’s podcast looks at the fake, the real, the copies, and the bizarre: fake journals from Elsevier, the MPAA telling teachers to film their TVs, the University of Michigan asking for real uses for its copies of Google’s book scans, and Wolfram Alpha’s use of sources. Mills and I also give Tom a parenting quiz appropriate to the digital age. [Subscribe to this podcast.]
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Digital Campus #40 – Super Models
OK, don’t get too excited by the title. Actually, do get excited if you want a freewheeling discussion of possible futures and business models (thus the title) for academic publishing. That’s just part of the roundtable chatter this time on the podcast. [Subscribe to this podcast.]
Digital Campus #39 – Upgrade in the Downturn?
Wondering what the Great Recession means for the use of technology in higher ed and at cultural institutions around the globe? We tackle that issue on this episode of the Digital Campus podcast, looking at possible impacts like an even greater use of free web apps, cheap netbooks, podcasting, and distance education. As always, you can join in the discussion at DigitalCampus.tv. [Subscribe to this podcast.]
Digital Campus #38 – E-Book Redux
Although we covered the topic in depth in 2007 on Digital Campus #16, we simply had to revisit the idea—and the reality—of e-books on the latest episode of the podcast given interesting new developments. With the launch of the Kindle 2 and the mobile version of Google Book Search (which yours truly nailed as a prediction on Digital Campus #35), Tom, Mills, and I once again debate the merits of electronic books. And through the magic of podcasting, we are able to talk with our former selves via flashbacks. We also cry crocodile tears over the demise of Ruckus and Juicy Campus, look at history in Google Earth 5, and discuss YouTube’s new licensing and download functionality. Plus, as always, our picks for useful sites, reading, and software. [Subscribe to this podcast.]
Digital Campus #37 – Material Culture
As a follow-up to earlier discussions of Smithsonian 2.0, the Digital Campus crew tackle the thorny question of how to bring museums online in this episode‘s feature story. Can the reverence for physical objects carry over into the digital realm? We’re lucky to be joined on the podcast by the Center for History and New Media‘s Director of Public Projects, Sharon Leon, who has done extensive work with the Smithsonian on projects such as The Object of History. We also discuss the impact of a possible new moderation policy on Wikipedia, Creative Commons on the White House website, Gmail going offline, and how we can all get a piece of the giant U.S. economic stimulus package. Another profitable Digital Campus podcast—give it a listen. [Subscribe to this podcast.]
Digital Campus #36 – Tweeting into 2009
If you haven’t been to the Digital Campus website in a while you might want to take a peek at our snazzy new design for 2009, courtesy of Jeremy Boggs. Along with the new site, we have our first podcast of the new year, chock full of news and views. We talk a lot about Twitter (you can now follow me there as well as on this blog, and you can also follow the podcast on Twitter), as well as e-books, mobile platforms, Google Notebook, Wikipedia, Europeana, and…Stevie Wonder. Take a listen, and subscribe in the new year to get all of our podcasts automatically delivered to your iTunes.
Journal of American History Begins Podcasting
Kudos to the Journal of American History for their launch this week of a podcast. In the inaugural “JAHcast,” John Nieto-Phillips speaks with James Meriwether about his article, “Worth a Lot of Negro Votes’: Black Voters, Africa, and the 1960 Presidential Campaign.” The podcast is put together well. It has relatively good sound quality (always critical for podcasts; bad sound quality repels audiences faster than bad web design), it’s open access (anyone can subscribe via iTunes), and most of all, it contains interesting subject matter for our times.
You will be unsurprised to hear (given a certain other podcast) that I think more scholarly journals and organizations should be podcasting like this. It’s a great way to build an audience and add context to print publications. It would be great for the JAH to add other kinds of podcasts, such as panels from the annual meeting and wider-ranging discussions or debates (rather than focusing on a single article). But a great first step.
Digital Campus #34 – Extra, Extra!
For the Thanksgiving Day Digital Campus podcast, Mills, Tom, and I covered a cornucopia of news, including more on the Google Book Search settlement, some academic challenges to Google’s main search engine, some trouble in the virtual worlds (in a new segment, “We Told You So”), and the end of email service for students at Boston College. We also point the audience to a new site on place-based computing, a couple of easy (or bizarre) ways to write a book, and Processing, a programming language that’s useful in higher ed. An easily digested podcast for those still snacking on turkey leftovers. [Subscribe to this podcast.]
Digital Campus #33 – Classroom Action Settlement
After an unplanned month off (our apologies, things have been more than a little busy around here), the Digital Campus podcast triumphantly returns to the airwaves with a discussion of the recent Google Book Search settlement. Also up for analysis are Microsoft’s move to the cloud, the new Google phone, and, as always, recommendations from Tom, Mills, and me about helpful sites, tools, and publications. [Subscribe to this podcast.]
Digital Campus #32 – Going Native
On this episode of the podcast we discuss whether “digital natives,” those teens and twentysomethings who are supposed to understand and use digital technology intuitively, really exist. We also cover Google’s latest digitization project (this time of newspapers), the publishing lobby’s attempt to close NIH’s open access research portal, and two new foundations to support good things on the web. [Subscribe to this podcast.]
