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Finally getting into Flickr
I have Flickr account for more than a year, but somehow after initial posting of photos I didn't use it anymore. Now I'm catching up (e.g. my photos on life in and around Seattle and subset from really fun weekend at Long Beach peninsula) From Mathemagenic on July 26, 2005 at 10:52 p.m..

OneNote fun
It has been ages since I thought of installing OneNote to my Tablet. It looked interesting, but I wasn't sure if it was worth paying for a bit of extra features. Since coming to Microsoft I saw many people using it for making notes, but still wasn't convinced till one lunch conversation. It looked that I was at the table with audio experts, so I asked about a software to annotate audio recordings (thinking about all the interviews we are doing :). I was told that this should be possible in OneNote. T From Mathemagenic on July 26, 2005 at 9:48 p.m..

My take on Virtual Earth
I'm probably a bit more in a geeky mode when I should, but it's difficult to avoid. As part of my study I'm reading much more technology blogs than I'd normally do, picking up stories and watching tools being released. One of those new tools is Virtual Earth (see also team blog, Channel 9 story). Usually I wouldn't jump to test it so early, but it's hard to avoid it wat From Mathemagenic on July 26, 2005 at 9:48 p.m..

Vacation observation
When doing pushups under water, most of your energy gets expended going down.... From Joho the Blog on July 26, 2005 at 9:45 p.m..

New Internet Literacies in the Classroom
Es sind eine Reihe von Slides (75), aber sie illustrieren sehr anschaulich, was heute unter den Stichworten "Media Literacy" und "Web 2.0/ Read-Write Web" diskutiert wird. Lohnenswert! Will Richardson, Weblogg-ed, 26 Juli 2005 (ppt, 2,97 MB) [Kategorien: Media Literacy,... From www.weiterbildungsblog.de on July 26, 2005 at 6:48 p.m..

Pensacola Bound (?)
So I've been pretty lucky up until now with the blogvangelism road tour in terms of making flights and not missing any presentations and such. But my attempts to get to Pensacola today are not going well. First Northwest cancels my flight from Philly and gets me on a Delta flight that gets into Fla around midnight EST, four hours later. Oy. Now I see that a bunch of Delta flights are getting delayed or cancelled. Double oy. I've got a post brewing about this double life I'm leading...this summer h From weblogged News on July 26, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..

Local Blogger Wins Forbes Best of Web Award
So just a quick "waytago" to Henry Abbot, local Flemington, NJ blogger and church buddy who just got a Forbes Best of the Web Award for his pro basketball blog "True Hoop." Nice to see that my little small town is becoming such a blogging hotbed. But hey Forbes...no education division? From weblogged News on July 26, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..

Freakonomics and Complexity
Dave Pollard's review of Freakonomics by economist Steven Levitt and journalist Stephen Dubner is worth a read. What I like is the discussion of complex (as opposed to merely complicated) systems and the need for pattern recognition. "Our long-term memory has a capacity of about 40,000 patterns (models, archetypes, plans, idealizations and other representations of reality), and when we see, hear or otherwise pay attention to something we only perceive and internalize the 5-10% that resonates and is consistent with those patterns, that understanding of reality." I'm not sure about the From OLDaily on July 26, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..

Good Start Breakfast Club
We know that nutrition has a direct impact on one's ability to learn, so it is welcome to see this program aimed at ensuring that every (Australian) student gets a breakfast. By Various Authors, Australian Red Cross, July, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect] From OLDaily on July 26, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..

An Overview of E-Portfolios
Overview of e-portfolios with links to quite a number of examples. Dave Tosh (of elgg) comments, "These papers are starting to get very boring. It has a few example e-portfolios towards the end but there is nothing new here for those who have been following e-portfolios over the past couple of years... If you have never heard of e-portfolios give it a read but don't look to this paper for any new insight." In annoying PDF. I have mixed feelings about e-portfolios. In one sense, personal portfolios would be very useful. But tying them sp From OLDaily on July 26, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..

Yahoo!360 - Home
Yahoo! 360 has opened up to external content, which is good. But does this mean, as Albert Delgado says, that "the 'walled garden' concept is finally and officially dead?" It's a step in the right direction. But I notice all my 'contacts' are people with Yahoo360 accounts - and there doesn't seem to be a way to create as a contact someone's Flickr account or Orkut account. So the walled garden hasn't been eliminated - not quite yet. By Albert Delgado, Edu From OLDaily on July 26, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..

New Internet Literacies in the Classroom
You will be able to breeze through these slides in five minutes or so, but do take the time to have a look. Will Richardson is able to put together nicely the ideas of new digital literacies and the read-write web. By Will Richardson, Weblogg-ed, July 26, 2005 [Refer][Research][Re From OLDaily on July 26, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..

Libros recibidos IV
Capriotti, Paul (coord.), La marca corporativa. Estratègies de gestió i comunicació, Eumo Editorial, Vic, 2005, 244 pp. (Gracias Carlos). Caruncho, Luis María, María Antonia Dans (1922-1988), Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza, A Coruña, 1999, pp. 502. (Gentileza Fundación Pedro... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on July 26, 2005 at 2:51 p.m..

Another Google Maps Pedometer Tool...
Has some interesting features including the ability to save and share routes. Click on any of the markers for your route and see how far this point is from the start and what the estimated time would be for a given speed. From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on July 26, 2005 at 2:48 p.m..

Unilever tries to make a product interesting
I Can't Believe It's Not Butter (known in my family as I Can't Believe We're Eating This) is eschewing TV commercials in favor of a 4-part animated mock soap opera at TasteYouLove.com. It's certainly interesting when a retail product jumps off of TV. For one thing, the Web ad doesn't interrupt me while I'm trying to do something else. And the first two episodes ICBINB has posted are a tiny bit amusing. But just a a tiny bit. The problem is that products like ICBINB aren't interesting. The script tries to make up for the product's tedium by hitting t From Joho the Blog on July 26, 2005 at 1:49 p.m..

E-Portfolios overview
E-Portfolios overview. This is a good introduction to the concept of E-portfolios if you are unaware of what they are and how they are used. An Overview of E-Portfolios - George Lorenzo and John Ittelson, Educause. E-portfolios are a valuable learning and assessment tool. An e-portfolio is a digitized collection of artifacts including demonstrations, resources, and accomplishments that represent an individual, group, or institution. This collection can be comprised [Bill Brandon: eLearning on July 26, 2005 at 12:48 p.m..

Yay Discovery!
I just finished watching the lift-off of the Discovery and it was so cool, especially because they have a new camera now mounted on the external fuel tank (the big orange thing) so you could see the Shuttle roll over and then you could see it separate. The fuel tank falls off and burns up in the atmosphere on re-entry, and you could watch the Shuttle just float away above it. It's pretty incredible after so many Shuttle launches to get a never-before-seen view of the process. From megnut on July 26, 2005 at 12:45 p.m..

Scientific and academic use of RSS
Pito aggregates what he's learned about the use of RSS and blogs among academics, researchers and scientists. Short answer: A lot's going on. The final point on Pito's list is one he appropriately calls "awesome": the University of Saskatchewan Library's list of feeds from hundreds of journals, from Abacus to World journal of surgical oncology [Technorati tags: rss PitoSalas]... From Joho the Blog on July 26, 2005 at 11:46 a.m..

Order of Magnitude Quiz: Ebayers
According to a survey conducted by eBay, how many Americans say that eBay is their primary or secondary source of income? The answer is in the first comment... [Thanks to Center for Media Research for the info.] [Technorati tags: OrderOfMagnitudeQuiz ebay]... From Joho the Blog on July 26, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

Bush blocks Abu Ghraib truth
The Bush administration continues to refuse to release photos and videos of Abu Ghraib that, by all accounts, show far worse scenes of torture. We need to know what happened. We're Americans. We're supposed to believe in the power of truth. [Technorati tags: iraq bush AbuGhraib]... From Joho the Blog on July 26, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..

Schools Need to Get Up to Speed
Steve Cohen sent me a link to this story at North Jersey.com that captures the incredibly messy stage we're in regarding schools and blogs and students and Web publishing. Pretty much seems like schools are in reaction mode instead of proaction mode, and to me it's only going to get worse until schools start understanding the shifts that are occurring. Thi From weblogged News on July 26, 2005 at 6:47 a.m..

Big Brother Wants to Be Diet Cop
As diabetes reaches epidemic proportions, health officials want the government to monitor diabetic New Yorkers to reduce deaths and cut costs. But privacy experts are alarmed by the move to track a non-contagious disease. From Wired News on July 26, 2005 at 6:46 a.m..

Playing on Your IPod: Text Games
Since their heyday in the 1980s, text-based adventure games have dwindled to a niche market. Now, some developers think portable devices like the iPod and cell phones might breathe new life into the genre. By Jacob Ogles. From Wired News on July 26, 2005 at 6:46 a.m..

Enviros Make U-Turn, Praise SUV
The Sierra Club takes the unusual step of promoting Ford's SUV -- it guzzles slightly less gas than the standard model. Others are less impressed with Ford's effort. By John Gartner. From Wired News on July 26, 2005 at 6:46 a.m..

Nanotech Moves Closer to Cure
Dr. James Baker and his lab at the University of Michigan are turning tiny, tendril-covered particles into weapons against disease and illness. By Howard Lovy. From Wired News on July 26, 2005 at 6:46 a.m..

Venezuela: weblogs en el II Congreso de Periodismo Digital
Los días 20 y 21 de octubre tendrá lugar en Maracay el II Congreso de Periodismo Digital, en el que se abordará la relación entre weblogs y medios y el uso de weblogs en comunicación corporativa. Entre los ponentes, tendré... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on July 26, 2005 at 5:50 a.m..

Understanding true decentralisation - the microformat model (Kevin Marks)
Jeff Jarvis called for decentralised tags and restaurant reviews, and Stowe Boyd posted some ideas about how to achieve this. Unfortunately, Stowe misunderstood how the existing open, decentralised tagging model works, and went off into a design dead-end because of... From Corante: Social Software on July 26, 2005 at 4:49 a.m..

Legal downloads triple worldwide - BBC
Figures released by the international recording industry suggest the number of legal downloads has tripled to 180m worldwide in the first half of 2005. The rapid growth of broadband has seen a surge in legal downloading and a decline in unauthorised file- From Techno-News Blog on July 26, 2005 at 3:45 a.m..

Microsoft, Google duke it out for China - Stefanie Olsen, CNET News
With an estimated 100 million people online, China's Internet audience is second only to that of the United States, and financial analysts believe it will surpass America's Internet population within five years. China also has 350 million mobile phone sub From Techno-News Blog on July 26, 2005 at 3:45 a.m..

Stanford professors offer password protection - Associated Press
The increase in identity theft has prompted two Stanford University professors to develop software that protects computer passwords from Internet thieves. John Mitchell and Dan Boneh will unveil Pwdhash, software that scrambles passwords typed into Web si From Techno-News Blog on July 26, 2005 at 3:45 a.m..

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Systems Thinking and Complexity Links. Learning is an integrative task...a holistic experience. Moving learning beyond the artificial sanitary construct of a course and into the sometimes nebulous messy environment of real-life requires acknowledgement that learning is an open loop process - i.e. external factors influence what we know, decisions alter context, application of knowledge is a feedback generating process, etc. Over the last few months I've encountered increased focus on systems thinking in relation to lea From Bill Brandon: eLearning on July 26, 2005 at 12:45 a.m..

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Driven to distraction by technology. Socially, most of us adapt at a slower pace than technology develops. Even if we begin using new tools, the social/work/personal implications lag behind. Growing stress over information overload is an indication of this. Productivity experts are advocating the importance of "compartmentizing" tasks (i.e. read email only twice a day, turn of IM software). I think life/work/technology balance is a very personal experience. Ultimately, technology should enable, not squelch, productivity. Bill Brandon: eLearning on July 26, 2005 at 12:45 a.m..

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Social Machines. Social Machines: "At bottom, the shift is bringing computing far closer to our everyday experience. We've just seen how social software can give us new ways to tap into the collective wisdom of the people in our social groups. But that's only one consequence of continuous computing. On a more personal level, for example, the portable devices that sustain the information field are more respectful of our bodies and From Bill Brandon: eLearning on July 26, 2005 at 12:45 a.m..

A PR agency I'd like to see
PRSpeak thinks maybe it's time to get the various people mouthing off about PR (I am one of those mouthers) into a room and produce something like a manifesto. This isn't a manifesto, but here's a self-description I'd like to hear from a PR agency sometime: 1. Our PR agency's aim is to help knowledge emerge in public. 2. We recognize that knowledge is a property of conversations. 3. Scientists, industry experts, businesses, enthusiasts, and users each have important and unique contributions to make to these conversations. No one group holds all the knowledge necessary. From Joho the Blog on July 26, 2005 at 12:45 a.m..