Michael Mandiberg

I have a bad habit of not blogging little things. Like when I get blogged. It seems so recursive. But at the same time, I delish them, and then they just stay there.
So in an effort to change that practice, I am instituting a Ping Report, which I will do as needed, [...]

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 [...]

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

http://en.flossmanuals.net/DigitalFoundations
For three days in February 2009 Adam Hyde and the members of the FLOSSmanuals.net collective convened at Eyebeam in NYC to translated xtine burrough and Michael Mandiberg’s new Creative Commons textbook Digital Foundations from Adobe software to FLOSS software
Video and print version coming soon

I am going through my things tagged “to blog” and this one seems timely. In June of 2008 the CRUMB list was dedicated to a discussion of collaboration. I wrote a long post in response to a post by Steve Lambert, in which he argued that there were multiple forms of collaboration: Master [...]

Wanna FLOSS?
We are FLOSSing Digital Foundations next weekend. We need help, and we want to do it *together.* We need people of all levels, from the GIMP guru, to the Ubuntu n00b to test it all.
Digital Foundations uses formal exercises of the Bauhaus to teach design software. It was written for the [...]

A few days ago I posted 10 things I learned in the process of successfully negotiating a CC license with a book publisher. This contract was for xtine burrough and my co-authored Digital Foundations, which takes the Bauhaus exercises and translates them into software based exercises. Yesterday Bob Chao posted it on CNET [...]

My HOWTO negotiate a CC license contract with a publisher was translated into Chinese. I love CC.
UPDATE: The translation is now on the CC Taiwan site. Awesome.

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 [...]