Tag: The Internet

  • Online video in schools

    My Drawing school is beginning to be quite successful, but it is noticeable that most of my hits come from California, the home of all things digital – a really wired society. The trouble with UK viewings is that schools seem to disallow YouTube point blank, which is a terrible shame as there are amazing…

  • eBooks and authors

    There is a big problem with ebooks. Once all the books in the world have been digitised, there will only be one book. No author, no revenue, except for those who find ways to exploit the power of cut and paste. There will be no reason to write a book again. Books take time and…

  • You are not a gadget – Jaron Lanier

    I’m reading Jaron Lanier’s You are not a gadget, at the moment. Lanier is one of the original geeky gurus of the net. He’s taking stock and having a think about where we are going in this book, which he calls a manifesto. I haven’t got to the manifesto part yet, but his musings are…