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Alfred Thompson - Thoughts About the $100 Laptop Project - Computer Science Teacher
So what does Microsoft think of the $100 laptop project, especially given that the computers will use Linux operating systems. This blog post isn't an official response, but as it comes from a Microsoft staffer we can get an insight into how they may feel. And how they feel, in a word, is critical. The Linux system, he writes, "has an amazingly poorly designed user interface that is unnecessarily complex." Also, "The pessimist in me also worries that the virus programmers of the world will find 100 million identical networked laptops an irresistible target." [
OLDaily on July 12, 2006 at 3:45 p.m..
Dave Pollard - Escaping the Prison - How to Save the World
My most
recent book review is of Doris Lessing's Prisons We Choose to Live Inside, and so it is appropriate that Dave Pollard brings us
this post summarizing how to escape the prisons. Based on David Edwards's 1995 book, Burning All Illusions, the advice (a bit long, but worth it) is as follows: Be mindful. Watch what's happening and why. Be self-aware. Pay attention to what you're doing From
OLDaily on July 12, 2006 at 3:45 p.m..
Ross Mayfield - Ten Trends That Matter to Business - Ross Mayfield's Weblog
These trends probably matter to other people too but if you're trying to make a living these days you have to appeal to 'business' (whatever that is). Perhaps that explains item number 2, 'overburdened public sector'. As though you could just wave your have and make health and pension costs go away? And perhaps by business responsibility becomes number 6, 'social cost'. "Business has never been loved, but there is a different tone, fueled by tech and edu." Perhaps most important is not the demographic shifts or the shortages of resources but the "Massive scal From
OLDaily on July 12, 2006 at 3:45 p.m..
Chris Anderson - On Media Elitism and The "Derivative" Myth - The Long Tail
How often have you heard something like this? "Without the New York Times, there is no blog community. They'd have nothing to blog about." Yeah, it's the old story. But it's not true. Check out these statistics: "Technorati shows that there are currently 555,000 posts linking to the New York Times. Nearly 800,000 posts mention the Times in one way or another. Sounds like a lot? Not if you pull back and look at the entire blogosphere. Technorati is currently tracking 2.7 billion links." Another way of putting it is to observe, with the author, that "roughly 300 times more people From
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Various authors - Reboot - Bbc
This is a really interesting look at what readers thought the BBC's web 2.0 web page should look like. There are some really good ideas here with some others that are, well, less good. I liked the personalization in the
winning entry but I actually preferred the
Schumachers' version, which was much cleaner, incorporated personalization, and had built-in radio. I also like the idea expressed in
I don&a From OLDaily on July 12, 2006 at 3:45 p.m..
Unattributed - Video Sharing Creates Challenges For Schools - ESchool News
It really is a case of the chickens coming home to roost, isn't it. Now that children and young adults can create and share video, their offerings look surprisingly like Fox or MTV. And, of course, parents are outraged. "But alongside the cute animal tricks, comic sports bloopers, and corny lip-synching sessions are extremely weird antics and clips of the crudest kind. There's a plethora of videos of people vying for some attention and young women flaunting their bodies." Block the sites, you say. Fine. But who is going to fix the fact that you taught them that this was OK? Ho From
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Various authors - Moodle Sites - Moodle
If you are still of the belief that an open source application like Moodle is not really of use in a production setting, perhaps you will want to check out this map. And maybe contact a few of the thousands of sites listed to get their perspective. "Currently there are 13379 sites from 158 countries who have registered. 2052 of these have requested privacy and are not shown in the lists below." Via
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