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Richmond.edu, who are you?
So for the past week or so, I've been getting all these weird emails from people with Richmond.edu return addresses. Most of them are in the form of short essays, either agreeing or disagreeing with some of the points I make in the introduction to my book Screenagers (formerly, Playing the Future). I tried to write back to some of them, figuring after the first three or four that it was some kind of class assignment, and that their teacher was hoping I'd write them back. Or maybe he thought it was good for them to experience their essays in action. Most of the From
rushkoff.blog on November 1, 2006 at 9:45 p.m..
Raytheon Taps Game Gear for UAVs
A virtual "cockpit" utilizing off-the-shelf game controllers gives unmanned aerial vehicle operators a better grip on war-time situations. In Gear Factor. From
Wired News on November 1, 2006 at 7:46 p.m..
Join the Crowd in Second Life
Wired magazine contributor Jeff Howe dishes on crowdsourcing, games and virtual worlds at Second Life's virtual Wired office this Friday. Don't miss it. In Game|Life. From
Wired News on November 1, 2006 at 6:46 p.m..
Andy Powell - The Importance of Being Open - eFoundations
I have started uploading some of
my PowerPoint slide presentations into Slideshare and am sympathetic with the observations in this post. "It is hard not to be tempted to make simplistic comparisons between JORUM and Slideshare and the other social tools... but I wonder how the 1200 resources deposited into JORUM over the last 11 or so months compare with the rate of presentations being deposited into Slideshare currently (even while it is still in beta)?" Why is this? It's hard to say, but the author suggests, "I think we fell foul of being too From
OLDaily on November 1, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..
Alex Ragone - 21st Century Learning #20: Bill Fitzgerald on DrupalEd - Ed Tech Talk
With
Drupal 5.0 just released (in very Beta) this discussion of the education-specific verion of Drupal, DrupalEd, is timely. "A distribution for Education will mean different things to different people: a set of tools to support classroom blogging, a set of tools to support teacher professional development, a set of tools to allow a school to track student progress (aka a SIS), a public-facing school web site, an internal teacher professional development site, a personal learning space (the PLE), to say nothing of the library sites, the LMS&apo From
OLDaily on November 1, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..
Dean Shareski - EdTech Posse Podcast 2.3 - Communities, Open Source in Education - Ed Tech Posse
Some audio discussion of my recent critique of K12Online and the responses. Folks, this should have been a very minor thing; it was just a casual remark on one small post. But as this link points out, many of the comments in response "seemed more like they would be heard in a junior high class." From my perspective, this vindictive response just reinforces what I have been saying recently about groups and networks. Group members mutually reinforce each other and they respond with hostility to any perceived threat from the outside. [
From OLDaily on November 1, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..
Steve Hargadon - SupportBlogging's New Google Custom Search Engine
Another attempt at an edublogger custom search in Google, this one hosted by Support Blogging. Again I searched for 'downes', again I got
incorrect results. Why? My best guess is that my site wasn't listed among the edublogger sites selected, since no results from my site showed up. Now not to praise myself too much, but:
who would create an edublogger search and not include downes.ca? [
Link] From
OLDaily on November 1, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..
Mark Cuban - Some Intimate Details on the Google YouTube Deal - Blog Maverick
Support for some of the speculation I offered the other day about the Google purchase of YouTube - yes, it is a way to deal with the problem of uploaded commercial content. According to this item, the purchases revolved around a deal to compensate the networks, but without requiring that they in turn compensate the artists. The deal also works for Google because the networks then turned around and sured other video uploading services, giving Google free reign in the domain. Google gets its monopoly, the networks get to clamp down on uploading, and the artists and users get... well, noth From
OLDaily on November 1, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..
Stephen Downes - The Future of E-Learning - Stephen's Web
PowerPoint slides and
MP3 audio from my talk at the CGA educators' meeting in Toronto. The sound in the audio is a bit faint for the first speaker, Mark Bullen, an Associate Dean from BCIT. I speak after him and discuss blogs in learning, aggregation, connectivism, and learning networks. This is a short and breathless statement of the major trends as I see them at the moment. [
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OLDaily on November 1, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..
ITunes Plays Catchup
Apple's latest update gets the software player ready for the newest iPod shuffle and improves the app's speed and responsiveness. But this puppy ain't full-grown yet. In Monkey Bites. From
Wired News on November 1, 2006 at 4:46 p.m..
One Cingular Sensation
Cingular is forming partnerships with eMusic, Napster and Yahoo in a bid to launch an online music service for users of its music cell phones, which will also play MP3s ripped from CDs. In Listening Post. From
Wired News on November 1, 2006 at 3:45 p.m..
Bomb Blows Out PayPal Window
An investigation is under way after the detonation of an explosive device at the Silicon Valley headquarters of PayPal on Halloween night. No injuries were reported and service continued without interruption, the company said. From
Wired News on November 1, 2006 at 3:45 p.m..
Gadget Lab: Surround Sound
A set of speakers that will immerse you in mediocrity, a speaker phone adapter that will keep your hands on the wheel and a sexy hard drive that will save your music. In Gadget Lab. From
Wired News on November 1, 2006 at 2:45 p.m..
Cyberlovers Are Often Cyberliars
So many people are disillusioned by the creeps they meet in online dating that the professional matchmaking business is booming again. But don't think of it as some kind of Fiddler on the Roof experience. Today's matchmakers are slick professionals, and so are most of the clients. From
Wired News on November 1, 2006 at 1:46 p.m..
Sticks, stones, and...Hey, look over there!
John Kerry botches a joke that was supposed to make fun of Bush. Instead, Kerry insulted our soldiers. (In fact, I suspect that our soldiers will walk away with a lower opinion of Kerry, not of themselves.) So, let's put it in the balance. Sen. Kerry Pres. Bush Hurt the feelings of our soldiers. Lied us into a war in which 3,000 of our soldiers have died, tens of thousands have been injured, and more than that will come back altered forever by the stress of their service. After several hundred billions of dollars and 650,000 Iraqi deaths, Iraq looks... From
Joho the Blog on November 1, 2006 at 11:49 a.m..
State of the EdBloggosphere–Survey Results
Well, that didn’t take long. Now I know this is all totally unscientific and probably doesn’t mean much in the grand scheme of things, but here are the results from the survey I posted Monday with some brief thoughts. I’d love to know what you think. (By the way, I screwed up in terms of allowing [...] From
weblogged News on November 1, 2006 at 11:48 a.m..
Any Morris County (NJ) EdBloggers Out There?
A local newspaper reporter is looking for some teacher/bloggers in the Morris County area for a story. Leave a comment if you’re out there… technorati tags:blogging Listen to this podcast From
weblogged News on November 1, 2006 at 11:48 a.m..
Venezuela through Iran, Madonna in Swahili...only at Global Voices
Global Voices has a feature on left-wing Iranian bloggers writing about Hugo Chavez, and Madonna in Swahili blogs. The Swahili roundup also covers issues more trivial than the Madonna adoption controversy—and, really, isn't everything trivial when compared with Madonna?—such as corruption in Tanzania and the fact that Tanzania is down to providing electricity only at night. Where else than in Global Voices? [Tags: gv globalvoices venezuela iran ]... From
Joho the Blog on November 1, 2006 at 10:46 a.m..
I, Robot Builder
Putting together hundreds of tiny parts can be a bit of a pain, but the thrill of bringing a humanoid to life is worth the struggle. By Tim Hornyak. From
Wired News on November 1, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..
Technology of the Beast
There's no use denying it; technological advances are the work of Satan. Even a cursory review of the Bible reveals warnings galore about such perils as BitTorrent, MySpace and the political blogosphere. Take heed! Commentary by Lore Sjöberg. From
Wired News on November 1, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..
Stem-Cell Fix for Diabetic Ulcer?
Facing almost certain amputation, an Indian woman with a nasty-looking leg wound undergoes an experimental treatment using bone-marrow stem cells. Two months later, she's all better. Scott Carney reports from Chennai, India. From
Wired News on November 1, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..
The Fountain Finds a Way
To create his sci-fi epic, director Darren Aronofsky had to slash the Hollywood budget, ditch the usual digital f/x, and return to his roots as an indie filmmaker. By Steve Silberman from Wired magazine. From
Wired News on November 1, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..
Visible narratives: understanding visual organisation
Luke Wroblewski has written an article on visible narratives, with the aim of bridging visual design and information architecture. To quote: Whenever we attempt to make sense of information visually, we first observe similarities and differences in what we are... From
Column Two on November 1, 2006 at 5:46 a.m..