Michael Mandiberg

Celebrate Small Victories: Digital Foundations has run through its initial print run of 8000 copies, and gone into reprints. The publisher has reprinted a run of 4000 copies to meet demand. This semester it was adopted at over 100 colleges and universities; hopefully that number will steadily increase semester by semester. But for now, we [...]

FLOSS Book Sprint: Digital Foundations from Michael Mandiberg on Vimeo.

Last weekend was the epic Digital Foundations–>FLOSS Book Sprint, led by Adam Hyde of FLOSSmanuals.net and Eyebeam Senior Fellow Michael Mandiberg. Around 25 volunteers convened at Eyebeam over the course of 3 days to translate Digital Foundations from Adobe to FLOSS (Free Libre Open Sources [...]

Digital Foundations: An Intro to Media Arts with the Adobe Creative Suite is officially in print. Amazon has switched their Pre-Order status to In Stock!
Digital Foundations (http://digital-foundations.net/) takes the formal principles and exercises of the Bauhaus and uses them to teach hands on design software exercises. These are supplemented with historical visual examples from [...]

I cut and pasted this…
from an interview related to Harvard’s Digital Natives project.
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/10/02/digital
(tx Rose)
Q: Does being exposed to many and varying media, including multiple sources on the Internet, make students think more critically about the information they consume? Or are digital natives increasingly used to trusting what they see online, so much so that [...]

More press coverage over students and professors trying to find alternatives to exorbitantly priced textbooks.  Ours will be a standard $50.  Thankfully not in the $150-$200 range that many “proper” textbooks hit.  From Ars Technica:
In 2006, Rice experimented with a wiki for his Introduction to Political Science class. In addition to online articles, the wiki [...]

Lessig writes on this major ruling.
In non-technical terms, the Court has held that free licenses such as the CC licenses set conditions (rather than covenants) on the use of copyrighted work. When you violate the condition, the license disappears, meaning you’re simply a copyright infringer. This is the theory of the GPL and all CC [...]

NYTimes reports on textbook piracy. Textbooks are being scanned and torrented on The Pirate Bay, et all.  Scanning the entirety of a text book seems like a lot of work, but I guess it pays off:
Time flies, however, if you’re having a good time plotting righteous revenge, and students seem angrier than ever before about [...]

Harper Collins has analyzed the data, and concluded that their one month free access to Neil Gaiman’s American Gods had direct and measurable increase on sales.  They were only able to measure it among independent booksellers, as there was an alternate Gaiman promotion going on at the big box bookstores:
 The Browse Inside Full Access promotion [...]

Kottke reports on an author & publisher in dispute over Google Print.
To that end, she asked her publisher, Simon & Schuster, to put her book up on Google Print so it could be found, and they refused. Now they’re suing Google over Google Print, claiming copyright infringement. Meghann is not too happy with this development.
It [...]

Its only in Canada for the moment, but MiniBookExpo is a service to get books to bloggers for review.   Something we have thought about too.

 
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