March 2, 2008 – Silence and Voice

Jeffrey’s Twitter Updates for 2008-03-02

Is official; I have bronchitis. #
@betsyweber Yes; they went to the pharmacy for me to pick up 3 scripts. #
@dmcordell Exactly, means I will begin that rest once I finish my performance review, which has to be submitted by today. #
Doing laundry. Not feeling well, but would rather get laundry done when no one else is doing it. #
Put clothes in the dryer and suddenly people came en masse to use the washers. Good timing. #
@_Yarbo_ Thank you. Got some medications for it from the doctor. At least that means I should not get any worse. #
@daveseah Like treacle pudding? #
@daveseah Perhaps they are related? #
@pinoyboy What is the picture from that you are using on your Twitter page? #
@pinoyboy Cool image; thanks. #
Anybody know how to use a live webpage as a screensaver on Windows Vista? #
@dnorman Which mass media do you follow, then? #
@ErnieAtLYD They don’t realize who they are losing. Onward and upward! #
@dmcordell A bit better. Have been staying in trying to rest. Added 2 blog posts. Will file some paperwork. Thank you for asking. #
@injenuity So, 2 of us? Anybody else? Last year Darren Barefoot blogged about it and there were many others who had it as well. #
@NancyWhite Thank you for positive thoughts and vibes my way, Nancy. #
@macboyx Will look forward to next time! For now, enjoy the new WTC Path Station. #
@RobinYap Thanks for the hotel links. Scary; I know a few of those places. #
Just discovered Exxplore Twitter http://explore.twitter.com/# Wow! #
Twitter Blocks are really visually cool! http://explore.twitter.com/blocks/# #
@slmader and @RobinYap Did you see Arjun’s post on Seinfeld and #nv08? http://tinyurl.com/37prct #
Interesting news about MediaWiki’s "embrace" of social networking http://tinyurl.com/2vsdk9 #

Scrabulous in the New York Times

Anybody see the article in today’s New York Times about Scrabulous? I learned that Scrabulous is not only available on Facebook, but also via email and with signing into Facebook.

This recalls a recent discussion we had in the SCoPE educational technology community. I think the Times article is somewhat balanced, showing some of the complexities of the issue from the makers of Scrabble and how the increasing use and influence of social media is changing our perceptions of entertainment and free use. It seems like such a case of infringing on copyright, but the comparison between the use of this game and digital music was interesting.

I wish they would have talked about how sales of the physical board game were doing, before as well as after this game started to grow in popularity on Facebook. Are they selling more, less, or the same? Should that influence how the makers partner with or sue the designers of the electronic version. Is there a difference between when the originators of Scrabulous created it for fun and now, as they make roughly $25k a month in adverting? What do anybody else think?

Perhaps now would be a good time to enter careers in intellectual property and digital media rights?

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Non-Northern Voice Plague?

It is official, I came down with bronchitis yesterday, and I am taking lots of medications for it right now. I do not think this is the Northern Voice Plague which affected so many people after last year’s Northern Voice, as I have felt fine this week. I just think I juggled too much this week, with work and academic deadlines that all seemed to come simultaneously.

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