Yes We Can!

The Design Director for New Media for the Obama campaign gave a talk recently.

A Parting Note...

That's it for this semester, and I'll leave you with this topical article from the Times, which questions web 2.0's relevance...

Break free of this world wide delusion...

Murdoch to charge for News websites.

Billionaire Tyrant (his own words) Rupert Murdoch plans to charge people to visit his News Corp websites, starting in 12 months or so, to fix (as he calls it) a "malfunctioning business model.".

What do we think of this? Would you pay? One of the sites I visit most often is the excellent website of The Guardian. I could see myself parting with a small monthly fee for access, but I think its a backwards step. Murdoch's inspiration, apparently, is the booming trade of the subscription Wall Street Journal. But they cater for a very specific market, would the Sun reader pay to read it online?

I certainly wouldn't pay for anything Murdoch owns....

Link (from The Guardian, freely accessible)

Adobe prepares Flash for high-def TV in the home

This is an interesting announcement, via Silicon Republic
Adobe prepares Flash for high-def TV in the home

Adobe has formed alliances with leading electronics and media giants, from Intel and Netflix to Disney and the New York Times, to bring its Flash platform to high-definition (HD) Blu-ray players and internet-enabled TVs.

Now, will iPhone 3.0 finally get Flash support?

JavaScript

A brief (if slightly harsh) history of why JavaScript became the world's most popular programming language...

The World's Most Misunderstood Programming Language Has Become the World's Most Popular Programming Language

George Carlin - Modern Man

Is Google an "immoral menace"?

Henry Porter, writing in the Guardian, thinks so.

If indeed a new era of global responsibility has come into being with measures that actually restrain banks and isolate tax havens, it may be time for the planet's dominant economic powers to focus on the destructive, anti-civic forces of the internet. Exactly 20 years after Sir Tim Berners-Lee wrote the blueprint for the world wide web, the internet has become the host to a small number of dangerous WWMs - worldwide monopolies that sweep all before them with exuberant contempt for people's rights, their property and the past.

What do you guys think?

Link