Thursday, December 16, 2010

Cathy Davidson's blog

Cathy Davidson's blog

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Digital Public Library of America

Posted: 16 Dec 2010 05:49 AM PST

"Digital Public Library of America:  Rather than better business plans (not that they don't matter), we need a new ecology, one based on the public good instead of private gain. This may not be a satisfactory conclusion. It's not an answer to the problem of sustainability. It's an appeal to change the system." 

--Robert Darnton, The Library:  Three Jeremiads, New York Review of Books, http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/dec/23/library-three-jerem...

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Child-Computer Interaction (CCI)

Posted: 16 Dec 2010 05:31 AM PST

HCI is a venerable area of computer study but often when "humans" and "computers" are being discussed in interaction with one another, the implicit interface is the adult.   This conference reconceives HCI for children, quite overtly.   Think about what kinds of interfaces kids want, what the computer would look like if it weren't simply insuring its legacy heritage--from the typewriter and the television--but could be reimagined by children, for children.

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