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40-minute interview on Wisconsin Public Radio about Twitter, New New Media, and Iran
by Paul Levinson 02 Aug '10

02 Aug '10

The interview was conducted at 7am this morning. You can listen to it anytime at http://clipcast.wpr.org:8080/ramgen/wpr/jca/jca090624b.rm PL

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Ranking Web of Universities: July 2009 edition
by Isidro F. Aguillo 22 Jul '10

22 Jul '10

The July edition of the Ranking Web of World Universities (http://www.webometrics.info) shows important news. Most of them are due to changes done to improve the academic impact of the open web contents and to reduce the geographical bias of search engines. As a result, the US universities still lead the Ranking (MIT with its huge Open Courseware is again the first, followed by Harvard, Stanford and Berkeley), but the digital gap with their European counterparts (Cambridge and Oxford are in the region’s top) has been reduced. Even more important, some of the developing countries institutions reach high ranks, especially in Latin America where the University of Sao Paulo (38th) and UNAM (44th) benefits from the increasingly interconnected Brazilian and Mexican academic webspaces. Several countries improves their performance including Taiwan and Saudi Arabia with strong web oriented strategies, Czech Republic (Charles), the leader for Eastern Europe, Spain (Complutense) and Portugal (Minho, Porto) with huge repositories and strong Open Access initiatives. Norway (NTNU, Oslo), Egypt could be also mentioned. On the other side, the underrated are headed by France, with a very fragmented system, Korea, whose student-oriented websites are frequently duplicated, New Zealand, India or Argentina. Africa is still monopolized by South African universities (Cape Town is the first, 405th), as well as Australian Universities are the best ranked for Oceania (Australian National University, 77th) Other well performing institutions include Cornell or Caltech in the USA, Tokyo (24th) Toronto (28th), Hong Kong (91st), or Peking (104th). On the contrary, in positions below expected we find Yale, Princeton, Saint Petersburg, Seoul and the Indian Institutes of Science or Technology. Check out also: Ranking Web of Research Centers http://research.webometrics.info/ Ranking Web of Repositories http://repositories.webometrics.info/ Ranking Web of Hospitals http://hospitals.webometrics.info/ Ranking Web of Business Schools http://business-schools.webometrics.info/ -- ************************************* Isidro F. Aguillo, HonPhD Cybermetrics Lab CCHS - CSIC Albasanz, 26-28, 3C1. 28037 Madrid. Spain Ph. 91-602 2890. Fax: 91-602 2971 isidro.aguillo @ cchs.csic.es www. webometrics.info *************************************

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facebook, twitter and annoyances
by Barry Wellman 03 Nov '09

03 Nov '09

1. Nancy, I think it is more complex. What if there are really interesting people whose posts are often filled with gems, but at the same posts some self-infatuated or status update stuff ("going for breakfast") ("sitting in my garden") stuff which is not interesting to almost all. 2. Christophe, I don't understand why you have included my name. I don't think we ever met, and you certainly don't know me. I had nothing to do with the CNN story. Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Department of Sociology 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 2J4 twitter:barrywellman http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-3963 Updating history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _______________________________________________________________________

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Facebook, twitter and annoyances
by Katy E. Pearce 31 Oct '09

31 Oct '09

I often contemplate having multiple twitters. My academic followers don't care that I am sitting on the beach right now. My friends don't care that Wednesday was the NCA discount deadline. My Armenian activists followers care for neither. BUT, would requiring that every tweet took into consideration the multiple audiences (including, possibly, the public?) make it as interesting? I also like that I know that Nancy Baym outsourced BoingBoing to her son. Would I have read that if I was only following @n.baym.academic? PLUS, if it is GOOD someone will re-tweet it. Now, back to the beach, @kpearce Katy Pearce -- Sent from my Palm Pre

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Information wants to be ASCII or Unicode? Tibetan-written information cannot be ASCII anyway.
by Han-Teng Liao (OII) 31 Oct '09

31 Oct '09

Dear all, Running the risk of trolling and misrepresenting the famous motto "Information wants to be ASCII", I want to raise the question of the difference between "Information wants to be ASCII" versus "Information wants to be Unicode" from a multilingual perspective. It should be pointed out when Lev Manovich declare "Information wants to be ASCII" when talking about remix and remixability of information, it was in 2005 when the adoption of Unicode was just in the early adoption period globally. So I do not intend to raise the question to make lazy criticism against the America-centric implication inside ASCII, but rather raise the question about remix and remixability across linguistic boundaries. Why the Unicode is not universally deployed yet? How can we measure the remixability across linguistic boundaries simply because the information are encoded not in Unicode? Why so many user-generated content websites in China are only using their simplified-Chinese-only kind of "national standard" (GB2312) even when Hong Kong (using traditional Chinese not included in GB2312) is part of China and Beijing claims Taiwan is part of China? What about Tibetan-written information: is it want to be Unicode or GB 18030-2000? Tibetan-written information cannot be ASCII anyway. I really like to hear from you. Best regards, -- Han-Teng Liao PhD Candidate Oxford Internet Institute http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/students.cfm?id=123

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Will the default culture of Internet shift from ASCII to Unicode?
by han-teng.liao＠oii 31 Oct '09

31 Oct '09

Dear all, As continuing effort to revive the earlier discussion thread with the title "Information wants to be ASCII or Unicode?", allow me to point out the current news event on a further step towards internationalized domain names, as summarised by boingboing blogger Xeni Jardin on Rachel Maddow Show as below: http://www.boingboing.net/2009/10/30/xeni-on-rachel-maddo-2.html "[D]omain name extensions will be available in non-Latin character sets. Chinese, Greek, Arabic, or any one of the more than 20 official languages in India. In other words, the alphabet you're reading this blog post in will no longer be the default for web addresses." Not long ago, PHP a popular open-source computer scripting language that powers many websites also announced their latest version with the feature of "internationalization capabilities via Unicode support" http://www.thestandard.com/news/2009/10/21/php-6-boost-internationalization… Still, whether the open-source developers will write computer codes that are "unicode safe" remains a challenge, as the PHP creator has been quoted saying: "... unicode is a big problem we need to solve. Developers want to work on cool, sexy code tho - features people will notice, they don't want ot make extensions unicode safe..." http://www.nowpublic.com/tech-biz/rasmus-lerdorf-simple-hard-drupalcon-2008… Will the default culture of Internet shift from ASCII to Unicode? What is the implications for the future of Internet? The beginning of the end of Anglo-Latin order? The beginning of the end of commonly shared English-based Internet-specific languages? When we reintroduce languages back, have we also reintroduced more state power back? I particularly found the question raised by Rebecca MacKinnon <http://rconversation.blogs.com/> interesting: "What if a human rights group in Canada wants to register a domain name in Chinese or Arabic, in the native-alphabet country extensions for China or Saudi Arabia," she said, "Can the countries involved deny that request? Those are the sort of challenges to free speech that lie ahead." (quoted by Xeni Jardin <http://www.boingboing.net/2009/10/30/xeni-on-rachel-maddo-2.html>).

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Re: [Air-L] high-Quality Video Recording And Editing with Skype (Meryl Krieger)
by Martin＠Cleaver.org 31 Oct '09

31 Oct '09

For $100, last time I looked, you can buy screenflow - that will your screen, your webcam and your audio channels. So you can record the video from Skype, or indeed, use it to record demos. soundflower can route audio elsewhere - that's free but slightly tricky to set up. Best, Martin -- Martin Cleaver MSc MBA Martin(a)Cleaver.org http://twitter.com/mrjcleaver +1 416-786-6752 (GMT-5) On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 9:23 PM, Ulrike Kachel <u.kachel(a)griffith.edu.au>wrote: > Skypecap have a free trial version and then charge $49.95 US for a single > license. Pamela seems to be a bit cheaper, but they don't have a mac > version, and looks like callrecorder is mac only. > > Ulrike > > > > At 7:02 PM -0400 30/10/09, Meryl Krieger wrote: > >> Is Skypecap free or paid? Can't quite tell - looks like there's some kind >> of hook built in (at least I assume it - all of the ones I've seen have >> something!) >> >> Meryl >> >> On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Ulrike Kachel <<mailto: >> u.kachel(a)griffith.edu.au>u.kachel(a)griffith.edu.au> wrote: >> >> I haven't used skype recording, but there are some other products out that >> might be worth a look: >> >> <http://www.ecamm.com/mac/callrecorder/> >> http://www.ecamm.com/mac/callrecorder/ >> <http://www.pamela.biz/en/>http://www.pamela.biz/en/ >> <http://www.skypecap.com/>http://www.skypecap.com/ >> >> Regards, >> >> Ulrike >> >> >> >> >> At 11:11 AM +1300 31/10/09, <mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> >> air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org wrote: >> >> Thank you for passing that along, Meryl - I haven't used it, but was just >> yesterday wondering how to record skype convos for interview purposes. >> I may have the chance to use it in the next week or so, but I also would >> be >> very interested to hear what others think of the app., if they've used it >> already. >> >> Regards, >> Tessa >> >> PhD Candidate >> Media and Communication >> University of Canterbury >> New Zealand >> _______________________________________________ >> The <mailto:Air-L@listserv.aoir.org>Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list >> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers <http://aoir.org/> >> http://aoir.org >> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: < >> http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org> >> http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org >> >> >> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >> <http://www.aoir.org/>http://www.aoir.org/ >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Ulrike Kachel >> PhD Candidate >> Department of Tourism, Leisure, Hotel and Sport Management >> Griffith Business School >> Gold Coast campus >> Griffith University Qld 4222 Australia >> >> Location: Room 2.08, G27 building >> >> Phone: 07 5552 8084 >> Fax: 07 5552 8507 >> Mobile: 0416 095 196 >> Email: <mailto:u.kachel@griffith.edu.au>u.kachel(a)griffith.edu.au >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> The <mailto:Air-L@listserv.aoir.org>Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list >> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers <http://aoir.org/> >> http://aoir.org >> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: < >> http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org> >> http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org >> >> >> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >> <http://www.aoir.org/>http://www.aoir.org/ >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> J. Meryl Krieger >> Ph.D., Folklore & Ethnomusicology >> Associate Instructor, Indiana University >> Adjunct Instructor, Ivy Tech Community College >> > > > -- > Ulrike Kachel > PhD Candidate > Department of Tourism, Leisure, Hotel and Sport Management > Griffith Business School > Gold Coast campus > Griffith University Qld 4222 Australia > > Location: Room 2.08, G27 building > > Phone: 07 5552 8084 > Fax: 07 5552 8507 > Mobile: 0416 095 196 > Email: u.kachel(a)griffith.edu.au > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ >

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Re: [Air-L] high-Quality Video Recording And Editing with Skype (Meryl Krieger)
by Meryl Krieger 31 Oct '09

31 Oct '09

Is Skypecap free or paid? Can't quite tell - looks like there's some kind of hook built in (at least I assume it - all of the ones I've seen have something!) Meryl On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Ulrike Kachel <u.kachel(a)griffith.edu.au>wrote: > I haven't used skype recording, but there are some other products out that > might be worth a look: > > http://www.ecamm.com/mac/callrecorder/ > http://www.pamela.biz/en/ > http://www.skypecap.com/ > > Regards, > > Ulrike > > > > At 11:11 AM +1300 31/10/09, air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org wrote: > >> Thank you for passing that along, Meryl - I haven't used it, but was just >> yesterday wondering how to record skype convos for interview purposes. >> I may have the chance to use it in the next week or so, but I also would >> be >> very interested to hear what others think of the app., if they've used it >> already. >> >> Regards, >> Tessa >> >> PhD Candidate >> Media and Communication >> University of Canterbury >> New Zealand >> _______________________________________________ >> The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list >> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: >> http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org >> >> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >> http://www.aoir.org/ >> > > > -- > Ulrike Kachel > PhD Candidate > Department of Tourism, Leisure, Hotel and Sport Management > Griffith Business School > Gold Coast campus > Griffith University Qld 4222 Australia > > Location: Room 2.08, G27 building > > Phone: 07 5552 8084 > Fax: 07 5552 8507 > Mobile: 0416 095 196 > Email: u.kachel(a)griffith.edu.au > > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > -- J. Meryl Krieger Ph.D., Folklore & Ethnomusicology Associate Instructor, Indiana University Adjunct Instructor, Ivy Tech Community College

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Re: [Air-L] high-Quality Video Recording And Editing with Skype (Meryl Krieger)
by Tessa Houghton 30 Oct '09

30 Oct '09

Thank you for passing that along, Meryl - I haven't used it, but was just yesterday wondering how to record skype convos for interview purposes. I may have the chance to use it in the next week or so, but I also would be very interested to hear what others think of the app., if they've used it already. Regards, Tessa PhD Candidate Media and Communication University of Canterbury New Zealand

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Fwd: high-Quality Video Recording And Editing with Skype
by Meryl Krieger 30 Oct '09

30 Oct '09

For those of you, like me, who need a way of recording Skype interviews, this just came into my inbox. For those of you familiar with it, what has been your experience using this? Thanks much for the input, on the list or off! Meryl Krieger ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Geert Lovink <geert(a)xs4all.nl> Date: Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 2:35 AM Subject: <videovortex> High-Quality Video Recording And Editing with Skype To: videovortex(a)listcultures.org http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/29/vodburner-brings-high-quality-video-re… ----- video vortex discussion list artist responses to youtube to change your settings or unsubscribe, please go to: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/videovortex_listcultures.org -- J. Meryl Krieger Ph.D., Folklore & Ethnomusicology Associate Instructor, Indiana University Adjunct Instructor, Ivy Tech Community College

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