SXSW 2010 — Universities in the “Free” Era. MIT, Yale, Stanford, and others put lectures online. Chris Anderson argues that all university lectures should be free. From Academic Earth to TED, it’s free. So what is the value-add of a university education? What models of higher education will survive? How will universities leverage the social web to reinvent themselves Read Article
Notes from SXSW 2010 — Beauty in Web Design. Great web design is all around us, but can we go beyond ‘cool’, ‘usable’ and ‘fun’ to create something truly beautiful? This session examines our changing attitudes to beauty, art and meaning, and why the web is ideally suited to become a vehicle for true beauty in the Information Age Read Article
Notes on DRM and lessons from the music industry from the O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing conference, February 22-24 Read Article
Notes on a presentation by Google’s Abe Murray on Google Editions at the O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing conference, February 22-24, Read Article
These are notes from this morning’s session on the The Future of Digital Textbooks at the O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing conference (February 22-24, 2010) Read Article