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An interesting short article refuting some of Prensky’s approach from NESTA (UK’s National Endownment For Science Technology and the Arts) The notions of digital native and digital immigrant may be useful slogans for provoking argument. There have been clear social and cultural shifts that need to be investigated because they are deep and profound. However, [...]

Regular contributors and readers . . . . we have two new categories for posts – Web2.0 Digital storytelling If there are other categories you’d like me to create for posts then please add them in the comments. Remember that in Web 2.0 world, tagging is everything.

Center for History and New Media has just launched this. Nice use of Google Maps. The Center for History and New Media, the University of New Orleans in partnership with the National Museum of American History, and Louisiana State Museum recently launched a new digital history project, the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank (http://hurricanearchive.org). I think [...]

RETRIEVR This is an amazing concept that allows you to search images on the Flickr database by sketching a pattern. It’s not very accurate yet but it is still pretty amazing. It seems to recognise colours and basic shapes.