Change.gov
Utilizing the power of social computing by Barack

The Tower and The Cloud
Higher Ed in the age of cloud computing by EDUCAUSE

Teaching Philosophy 101 - Chronicle.com
Even if you're not teaching philosophy, you as a professor may check it out.

aung zayar's blog
new look to the blog, emphasizing shared items from Google Reader since I haven't posted any in a while.

Personal Genome Project
Controversial but tons of potential. Look forward to participating. You can register now to be notified when enrollment is available this year.

Google Blog: What comes next in this series? 13, 33, 53, 61, 37, 28...
How important it is to keep the homepage clean.

Spread Firefox | Download Day 2008
Firefox 3.0 will be out tomorrow at 10 am PST. It is on a mission to set a Guinness World Record for the most software download in 24 hrs. Be sure to pledge and download it tomorrow. Check out new features before you go ahead to pledge.

Buffett's bet: Hedge funds can't beat the market
for a cool $1 million to a charity in 10 years

Obama's Drucker-Style Win
noting Drucker's five questions for every organization.

The Adventures of Bollywood Blackboardwala
Really funny mashups, involving Blackboard, Moodle and Sakai

Support disaster relief in Myanmar (Burma)
via Google Checkout

academhack » Twitter for Academia
13 ways to use Twitter in Academia

File and Media Sync, Web Backup and Mobile Access - SugarSync
The best sync and backup solution I've seen so far. Very clean interface. Ease of use. And, pricing more reasonable now with founders' circle pricing for everyone. Hopefully, they will raise storage level in the future the way Google does with Gmail.

Pleasing Google's Tech-Savvy Staff - WSJ.com
Changing enterprise IT

Change Congress Beta Launch (Lessig Blog)
It launches on March 20, 2008 at 1:30 pm (EST). Hope that it will expand the same way Creative Commons is now.

ChangeThis
a cool website using CC. a quick way to scan books and ideas.

Google Sites Under Apps
Finally, it is here. Wiki-like site building from Google - from JotSpot acquisition. Google is pushing wikis to mainstream by letting users recognize that wikis are super easy-to-use websites such as portals, classroom sites, etc. I just had a brief scan, and it is not bad at all for the first version.

Two announcements (Lessig Blog)
You should check out this 10 minute video by Larry regards to the launch of his Change Congress movement (part of his fight on "corruption - influence of money in politics") and the decision he'll try to make (around Mar. 1) about running for Congress in a special election for CA-District 12. He's one of my most inspired thought leaders. Obviously, he's reaching out for an almost impossible goal with tackling corruption - essential for monumental innovation and change. Is it already the right time to run or would there be enough support for his beliefs? It is not an easy task to change our current system of politics and hope you can support his efforts towards a revitalized system of politics where influence of money won't take politicians to wrong decisions.

eLearning Reviews: research on elearning – reviewed for you
lots of information, yet worthwhile to check it out

movingforward » home
A good wiki for educators, either K-12 or colleges. Examples of many good wikis.

Harvard Faculty Adopts Open-Access Requirement - Chronicle.com
It is an important step for open access and content movement. Hope Alliant can support the movement in near future and have open access as part of its vision.

BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » Networked journalism
Any possible analogy with higher education? with Open Content efforts?

Horizon Project
2008 Horizon Report is now available from ELI and NMC.

Inspiring quote to me
"The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well." by Horace Walpole, English author (1717 - 1797)

Happy New Year!
Very glad to see Creative Commons raised $584,572 in its 2007 campaign.