links for 2007-12-14

“A Dunkin’ Donuts worker stopped a thief in his tracks so he would look good on YouTube.” (Foucault’s panopticon anyone?)

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning is now out in the world, freely available as a series of PDFs!

–w00t,” an expression of joy coined by online gamers, was crowned word of the year on Tuesday by the publisher of a leading US dictionary. Massachusetts-based Merriam-Webster said “w00t”, typically spelled with two zeros…”

Customised version of Google specifically searching open-licensed music and sound samples.

Some useful tips for all undergraduates (and lots of other people) on how to write a solid, convincing university-level essay or paper.

Predicts that the WGA strike in the US will lead US downloaders to download a lot more European TV, broadening the use of BitTorrent overall!

Detailed bibliography of research on web 2.0 and education.

Composing and Compositing: Integrated Digital Writing and Academic Pedagogy – Jamie ‘Skye’ Bianco; Reinventing the Possibilities: Academic Literacy and New Media – Cheryl Ball & Ryan Moeller; The Digital, the Virtual and the Naming of Knowledge…

“Facebook has just updated their statuses so that “is” can be removed. The word “is” has finally become a throwback. Not much to announce except that it has been removed.”