This is where you say something clever
According to a report about a new study:
Almost half of all “tweens” (kids between age 9 and 14) who consume digital music get it from the iTunes Store, according to a survey from the NPD group released this week.
I always have said that one of the things that would bring down the amount of illegal downloading would be good convenient legal sources. The other thing would be to get the prices down further.
Bill Corrigan is at the Educuase Learning Initiative (ELI) annual meeting in San Antonio and he’s blogging it over at our eTech blog.
“What everyone else is calling Web 2.0 is fandom without the stigma” – Henry Jenkins (MIT) interviewed by Danah Boyd at last year’s SXSW Interactive.
Hear it here.
“What everyone else is calling Web 2.0 is fandom without the stigma” – Henry Jenkins (MIT) interviewed by Danah Boyd at last year’s SXSW Interactive.
Hear it here.
In 2005 the Motion Picture Association of America released a study where it estimated that 44 percent of the industry’s domestic losses came from illegal downloading of movies by college students. That figure has been widely cited as a reason why Congress should act to require higher-ed institutions to install software (which is itself not all that ready for prime-time) to keep students from illegally downloading movies and music.
Steve Worona points out this AP news item:
But now the MPAA, which represents the U.S. motion picture industry, has told education groups a «human error» in that survey caused it to get the number wrong. It now blames college students for about 15 percent of revenue loss.
In the article Educause VP Mark Luker goes on to point out:
…it does not account for the fact that more than 80 percent of college students live off campus and are not necessarily using college networks. He says 3 percent is a more reasonable estimate for the percentage of revenue that might be at stake on campus networks.
«The 44 percent figure was used to show that if college campuses could somehow solve this problem on this campus, then it would make a tremendous difference in the business of the motion picture industry,» Luker said. The new figures prove «any solution on campus will have only a small impact on the industry itself.
In a related note, the Common Solutions Group released a summary of our meeting two weeks ago with the three major vendors of software that claims to supress illegal file sharing. The findings?
Although each of the technologies we discussed works in the narrow technical sense, it is the sense of CSG participants in the discussion that current products cannot stop all (or even most) unauthorized sharing of copyrighted material without interfering with the efficiency of the networks essential to research and teaching in higher education.
In 2005 the Motion Picture Association of America released a study where it estimated that 44 percent of the industry’s domestic losses came from illegal downloading of movies by college students. That figure has been widely cited as a reason why Congress should act to require higher-ed institutions to install software (which is itself not all that ready for prime-time) to keep students from illegally downloading movies and music.
Steve Worona points out this AP news item:
But now the MPAA, which represents the U.S. motion picture industry, has told education groups a «human error» in that survey caused it to get the number wrong. It now blames college students for about 15 percent of revenue loss.
In the article Educause VP Mark Luker goes on to point out:
…it does not account for the fact that more than 80 percent of college students live off campus and are not necessarily using college networks. He says 3 percent is a more reasonable estimate for the percentage of revenue that might be at stake on campus networks.
«The 44 percent figure was used to show that if college campuses could somehow solve this problem on this campus, then it would make a tremendous difference in the business of the motion picture industry,» Luker said. The new figures prove «any solution on campus will have only a small impact on the industry itself.
In a related note, the Common Solutions Group released a summary of our meeting two weeks ago with the three major vendors of software that claims to supress illegal file sharing. The findings?
Although each of the technologies we discussed works in the narrow technical sense, it is the sense of CSG participants in the discussion that current products cannot stop all (or even most) unauthorized sharing of copyrighted material without interfering with the efficiency of the networks essential to research and teaching in higher education.
Kristen Dietiker dropped an email the other day asking me for some details on installing Movable Type at the UW. She actually took the time to write up a set of instructions for installing MT on the UW’s central unix clusters. Nice work, Kristen!
Kristen Dietiker dropped an email the other day asking me for some details on installing Movable Type at the UW. She actually took the time to write up a set of instructions for installing MT on the UW’s central unix clusters. Nice work, Kristen!
Watching the blog and chat coverage from Steve Jobs’ Macworld Expo keynote this morning. It’s nice to see Apple introduce some things I’ve been asking for – most notably a light notebook (the MacBook Air – 3 lbs, with lots of nice features including being really thin, a mutlitouch trackpad (like the iPhone), and an (exensive) option for solid state disk instead of spinning disk), and the email app on the iPod Touch (though that’s a $20 software upgrade).
The other thing they introduced that I think is significant is location awareness in the maps app on the iPhone (and the Touch). Interestingly enough, they’re not doing it with GPS (since the devices don’t have GPS, which I’ve heard was a decision based on the power consumption of GPS units), but through triangulation of signal strength from cell or wifi base stations. I know that’s an approach that CS faculty here have also been using in their research projects. I wonder if that location info will be available to applications when they release the iPhone SDK next month.
Not a revolutionary set of new products, but certainly some nice incremental progress from Apple.
Rodney Hill, Educause
Professor Chun Wei Choo at Toronto – has a good definition of info management.
The systematic, imaginative, and responsible management of information so that:
* the creation and use of information contributes strategically to the organization’s goals
* groups and individuals have efficient access to and make effective use of the information they need to do their work and to develop themselves.
How many CSG schools have info management policies? Not many.
What is Information Management – informal survey of policies from the working group of the eudcause security task force:
Data retention; records retention schedules; e-discovery; data classification; tools for encryption.
Paul Hill, MIT
from a security consultant: most organizations don’t know all the locations where data resides – the problem seems to be getting worse in many cases. they concentrate on asking people about data they have that they shouldn’t have.
The Institute archivist – wants to preserve context along with content. Need to ensure appropriate destruction of non-permanent records in a timely manner.
Sponsored programs – want to get rid of excess data. Concerned about data that’s distributed on campus.
Researchers – need to preserve data for long term – example is the Framingham Heart Study that started in 1948 and is now in its third generation of participants. Data gets repurposed – eg. in 2003 went into that data to mine the social network graphs. There’s all sorts of metadata and workflow context that needs to preserved along with the data.
Enterprise architect – every project should be asked “why are you collecting this data?” and “what is the necessary lifetime of this data?”
Informal survey – we’re all over the map.
Length of preservation of DHCP logs? never, 2 weeks, all the way to multiple years.
Length of authentication logs? from 48 hrs up to seven years.
Nobody seems to have URLs for policies related to log file retention.
Educause is going to have a half-day workshop on developing electronic records policies in early May in Arlington.
