“Why are you willing to pay $5.00 for a low quality 30-second clip of music but you aren’t willing to pay 99 cents for a good quality complete recording of the same song on iTunes?”
“Honestly… because my friends will hear it.” - Sam Altman
I’m pretty sure that this can become an analogy for why creating […]
“Our philosophy is that we want everyone to take our content and make it their own.” - Dixie Feldman (I couldn’t find the actual article, so this is cached.)
This woman really gets the kinds of environments that kids crave. She told the story of a character dying on Degrassi and students needing a place to […]
There is a panel here at the Ypulse mashup of teenage entrepreneurs including Aseem Badshah, creator of Scriptovia.com. Scriptovia is an amazing website for sharing school papers and essays. During the panel I asked the following question: “What do you tell to teachers who are worried about kids using your site for plagiarism?”
His response was […]
The Ypulse Mashup has turned into a much better event than I had previously thought. I think that it makes sense to continually question the theory of why kids are so drawn to online, mobile, and collaborative environments. Henry Jenkins is one speaker who has gotten me thinking.
His research into fan fiction has helped him […]
I am now at the Ypulse Mashup 2007. It is all about Teens and Tweens and how they react to marketing, media, and education. The reason why I am here is put better on this post, but I think that there are a lot of ideas that can apply to education through marketing. The next […]
