Vu sur Dan Cohen's Digital Humanities Blog: la revue Journal of American History propose désormais, en plus du contenu classique d'une revue scientifique, un service de podcasts (en libre accès; la revue, elle, nécessite un abonnement).

Le premier illustre un des articles paru dans le n° de décembre sous la forme d'une discussion entre l'auteur et un prof (par ailleurs éditeur associé de la revue).

Suite au récent congrès Trends from Mobile World, ce billet sur Stephen's Lighthouse présente en 30 points les tendances en matière de téléphonie et d'usage des technologies dites mobiles pour les prochaines années. Voici les 5 premiers.

1. Voice will not be the dominant form of electronically mediated communication in the future. It will stay static as new forms - even beyond texting and SMS take over. Jetson style videophones are already here (including my new one).
2. Mobile will have a large component of asynchronous voice messaging including threaded discussions using v-mail technologies. Timed v-mail as well as mobile v-blogging will be common.
3. Mobile devices will be most individuals' primary electronic device used for their calendar, voice and e-mail, small scale video, learning, surfing, search, GIS, etc. - basically most everything. This moves the virtual world from home or office-based computing to truly personal computing.
4. GIS features will be key to the growth of mobile applications. 3D maps of your local area, context sensitive ads and coupons, smart mobs, political rallies, etc. will all come to popular consciousness. Search and local apps will be GIS sensitive.
5. Search on the mobile will be the fastest growing app in the next five years. It is already a major feature of Apple iPhones (as I noted on this blog recently) and other digital phone companies are well advised to catch up.

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A voir également ce rapport de la Technology Review du MIT: Your Next Cell Phone (toujours via Stephen's Lighthouse)

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Màj (05/03/08): voir aussi ce rapport de Pew: Cellphones More Important To Users Than Internet, TV, Email (source: SEL, 05/03/08)

Educause propose une série d'interviews (données pour le CNI) de personnalités impliquées dans les technologies liées à l'enseignement supérieur:

Jim Neal (Columbia University)
In this 20 minute podcast, we feature an interview with Jim Neal, Vice President for Information Services and University Librarian at Columbia University. He provides leadership for university academic computing and network services as well as a system of twenty-five libraries. He also works with the Electronic Publishing Initiative at Columbia (EPIC) and the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL). He serves on key academic, technology, budget and policy groups at the University.
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Roger C. Schonfeld (Ithaka)
In this 18 minute podcast, we feature an interview with Roger C. Schonfeld, Manager of Research at Ithaka, an independent not-for-profit organization with a mission to accelerate the productive uses of information technologies for the benefit of higher education worldwide.
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Cathrine Harboe-Ree (Monash University)
Cathrine Harboe-Ree is the Monash University Librarian. She is a member of the CAUL (Council of Australian University Librarians) Executive and a faculty member of the CAUDIT-EDUCAUSE Institute. She was the CAUL representative on the Australian Government's eResearch Coordinating Committee in 2005 and 2006 and is currently a member of AeRIC (the Australian e-Research Infrastructure Council). She has established an electronic press for Monash University, is the project leader of the national institutional repository project, ARROW and is a member of Monash's Research Committee and e-Research Steering Committee.
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Kate Wittenberg
In this 11 minute podcast, we feature an interview with Kate Wittenberg, Director of the Electronic Publishing Initiative at Columbia (EPIC). She spoke to us at the Coalition for Neworked Information Fall 2007 Task Force Meeting.
As Director of the Electronic Publishing Initiative at Columbia, Kate Wittenberg directs the electronic publications Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO), Columbia Earthscape, the Gutenberg-e online history project, Digital Anthropology Resources for Teaching, and the Core Integration for the National Science Digital Library. Kate's work focuses in particular on the creation of new models for scholarly communication, sustainable business plans for digital scholarly publishing, collaborative organizational models, and the evaluation of use and costs of scholarly and educational digital resources. EPIC develops relationships among scholars, technologists, publishers, librarians, and national and international partners that move beyond the organizational and disciplinary categories within the traditional university infrastructure. Kate writes and speaks frequently on the topics of scholarly communication in the online environment and digital publishing.
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Source: Educause

JISC -- Interview de Ross Gardler (boss de OSS Watch) à propos des applications open source

Educause -- The Top-Ten Challenges of the Academic Technology Community

Les podcasts du JISC sont désormais disponibles via des fils RSS et/ou via iTunes.

Via PSLB