In the fourth episode of The Undisciplined Room, Scott and Sara discuss Apple’s latest attempt to dominate the universe through interactive textbooks, the potential of online education, last night’s State of the Union address, going on an “Information Diet,” Google’s new privacy policy (or lack thereof), fonts (always a hot topic), and, in The Arts Corner, discuss a film made in 2011 that would look — and sound — more at home in the mid-1920s. Plus, a set-to concerning the challenges for achieving brevity in podcasting.

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Show Notes

iBooks Author

• Apple Education Keynote
• iBooks Author
• Daring Fireball: I’ma Set It Straight, This Watergate
• Daring Fireball: A Writer’s EULA
• NY Times: Apple Introduces Tools to (Someday) Supplant Print Textbooks
• ProfHacker: Reflections on the Apple Education Event
• Hack Education: Apple and the Digital Textbook Counter-Revolution

Online Education

• Wired Campus: Professor Departs Stanford U., Hoping to Teach 500,000 Students at Online Start-Up
• University 2.0 — Sebastian Thrun
• Nexium

SOTU

• NY Times: President Obama’s State of the Union Address

Information Diet

• Maria Popova: In a new world of informational abundance, content curation is a new kind of authorship
• Trouble: on developing good reading/consuming/engaging habits
• Clay A. Johnson: Tools for going on an Information Diet

Google and Privacy, or: Just Because You’re Paranoid…

• Google: One policy, one Google experience
• Washington Post: FAQ: Google’s new privacy policy
• Snopes.com: Heinz 57 Varieties
• DuckDuckGo
• Urban Dictionary: Grey Duck
• Matt Gemmell on Twitter: O2 adds your phone number to HTTP requests
• James Burke: Connections

Fonts

• Chank Fonts
• Minnesota Original: Chank Diesel
• Chank fonts on Typekit: Dry Cowboy • Chaloops • Adrianna

“The Arts Corner” presents The Artist

• The Artist
• Hollywood Reporter: Kim Novak Cries “Rape” Over “The Artist’s” Use of Music from “Vertigo”
• AMC Filmsite: Film History of the 1920s
• The Daily Beast: What Charlize Theron Doesn’t Get About Black Hollywood