Zack Dowell's Blog (6)

Some interesting examples here.

Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video

Blog post from Museum 2.0

http://museumtwo.blogspot.com/2009/03/educational-uses-of-back-channels-for.html

The key lessons at the bottom are fantastic and thought provoking.

Santa Rosa Junior College claims that student/faculty private emails at Google, Yahoo, etc. containing the acronym sjrc are "illegal"

http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20090507/ARTICLES/905079854/1350

So much for the Singing Railroad Jamboree Club I was going to start.... Maybe I'm safe because I don't work there?

Dumb.

US churches use Twitter to reach a wider audience

"Pastors in Westwinds Community Church in Michigan spent two weeks teaching their congregation about Twitter, which allows users to send messages to each other which are no longer than 140 characters. Of the church's 900 adult members, 150 are now tweeting."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/twitter/5274071/US-churches-use-Twitter-to-reach-a-wider-audience.html

Friday afternoon mindblow - exciting and visceral ideas about experiencing/interacting with/interpreting history:

http://digitalhistoryhacks.blogspot.com/2008/11/few-arguments-for-humanistic.html

Turkel, William J. Digital History Hacks: Methodology for the Infinite Archive (2005-08). [Weblog.]

I bought a Camp Rock sticker from a vending machine on a lark, and found this on the back:



“This product is intended solely for non-commercial home use. No license has been granted to apply this product to decorate articles which will thereafter be sold. Any such use is an infringement of the copyright in the characters portrayed and is specifically prohibited.”



Surely you would be protected by the First-sale Doctrine if you were to stick this sticker on a lunch box and… Continue