Livescribe Blog
You may remember Livescribe, smart pen and paper based technology, from June and Sept posts. Its blog just came out today. Hopefully, it will come out as early as possible in Q1 2008.

Corruption Lecture - alpha version (Lessig Blog)
Although I already mentioned it under shared readings, I wanted to emphasize the lecture again in this post. It's Lessig's first presentation (alpha version) on 'corruption.' If you are an educator, scholar, tech evangelist, or someone who cares about influence/effects of money on reason/decision-making/society/politics, it is a worthwhile piece to explore and ponder.

And, you may already be familiar with his simple presentation style. As he moves into a new research area, note the change in font - nice font. Note the use of html code format.

Management guru Gary Hamel: Break free! - Sep. 27, 2007
Achieving innovation and discipline at the same time!

Visualizing Economics
A cool site about economics info, bringing data into life

Marc Lesser: Accomplishing More By Doing Less

Common Craft - In Plain English
Explaining products/services in plain English.

TechCrunch40 Conference 2007
40 hottest startups showing their products/demos

Google presentation software already out tonight
Eventually, it is here! Let's see how good it is for collaboration. Of course, it isn't intended to compete with MS PowerPoint features to features (at least for the time being).

If you're new to Google Docs, watch this video to learn more about creating and collaborating on documents (and now presentations!).

Is Technology-Enhanced Learning Effective? Recent Research and the "No Significant Difference" Hypothesis - Digital Media Center - University of Minnesota

Novel Resizing of Images
Software developed by Shai Avidan and Ariel Shamir. It changes the whole concept of limited image resizing that we become used to. Wondering when the product may be available.

Participatory Media Literacy
Howard Rheingold - Resources for educators and students

My Library feature on Google Book Search
I haven't really tried it out in details. Useful tool for students.
Link on Google Blog.

KnowledgeWorks - Map of Future Forces Affecting Education
Must-see site

OpenID: an actually distributed identity system
Open source alternative for authentication. When will Google support it?

Made To Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip and Dan Heath
Worthwhile reading if you need to communicate ideas!

LiveScribe Smartpen: The Entire D5 Demo With Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher | BoomTown | Kara Swisher | AllThingsD
You can now see the whole demo online! Too bad, we'll have to wait until 1st quarter next year.

Introducing Sky in Google Earth - Press Release
Expansion of Google Earth to include views to the sky/space - better 3D.

Top 100 Tools for Learning
important to note that many are not necessarily specific educational tools and that most popular ones are free (9 out of 10, and 16 out of 20). And, web 2.0 dominates the list, though it certainly has bias of technologists and early adopters.

Technology Review: Handwritten Passwords
A step in the right direction re: authentication.

UC Berkeley CIO: Shelton Waggener
CIO Sessions Vision Series on ZDNet.com
Covers many aspects including Sakai.

Physics for future Presidents
Must-see physics course materials for non-physics majors
See web/podcasts
See UC Berkeley article about the class
Teaching methods are exemplary as well.

What the history of the electric dynamo teaches about the future of the computer
from Slate. How technology affects organizations and processes over time for productivity.

Livescribe :: Sneak Peek
Smart pen and paper-based technology, previewed at D: All Things Digital in Carlsbad last week by Jim Marggraff who also invented FLY Pentop. With recommendation from head of MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab. Around $200 by end of year, targeting college students. Could have tremendous ramifications on education - hope that mostly positive.

Open Culture
Blog on podcasts by Daniel Colman of Stanford

Best Business Blogs
according to Fast Company

Authentic Learning for the 21st Century from ELI
including what it is, why it is important and effective, examples such as inquiry-based learning, IT support for it, etc.

A Fair(y) Use Tale
a 10-minute short video on copyright by Eric Faden of Bucknell U. Also, link from Slashdot

A new generation of office tools
at the Under the Radar conference
fr. CNET News.com

Meraki
- cool and cheap wireless mesh networks
- Google as an investor
- too bad that WPA is not yet included
- "Internet for the next billion"

... towards Tomorrow's Learning Support System
NetGens Perspective
CMS - extension of the classroom - seamless partnership - my starting off point for exploring web - see simulations
Visual learner - multimedia approach - more text, more disengaged - to show us in the right directions to good research - some resource links
Too many PDFs - no reading by students
Give us a tutorial
Consider traditional vs. non-traditional students
Development path for CMS that tie with learning paradigm
Web 2.0 - Future CMS
Learning: "How People Learn," multi-pass through learning content, when associated with social aspects, active process, people who is doing is the person who is learning the most,
Lecture, transcript, Handout review, Handout authoring,

Web 1 Web 2
Britannica Wikipedia
Publishing Participating
Personal website Blogosphere
They, the media We, the media
Big content Micro content
Authority Collective
Best seller Long tail
Control Cooperation

Teaching Paradigm Learning Paradigm

CMS 2.0
- Enable mashups
- Enable tagging and bookmarking
- Content management
- Collaboration and team tools
- Themes, not just courses
- Peer tutoring collaborations
- Facebooks, not portals
- Social note taking

Active, social, interactive
"where" the students "are"

CMS - web posting, grades, one-to-many communication

What problems do we want to solve? Fundamental infrastructure tool
Expand the Mental Model: "Course" - learning opportunity
Expand the Mental Model: "Management"
Expand the Mental model: "System"

Several different ways of looking at: courses, campus, multiple campuses

Lecture: No PowerPoint reading; discussions are essential for students to show up
Room for both web 1/CMS 1 and web 2/CMS 2 - need both

Watch student behavior and access what they are doing
Open service buses - SOA - open and common standards
Open Source - when to switch - now, 3 years or 5 years? - no free lunch

The Acceleration of Technology in the 21st Century: the Impact on Education and Society
Timing is an essential key in inventions
Doubling time
Disability technology - reading machines - portable
AI - www.kurzweilai.net
Future predictability
Projecting linear is going to be way too conservative - rate is accelerating - exponentially
Linear function on logarithmic graph - though each paradigm runs out of steam eventually - but another paradigm starts - of course, ultimate limit - still far away
Moore's law to molecular computing
Democratization of knowledge creation
Virtual attendance - going to virtual reality
Biotechnology revolution - turning off specific genes, enzymes - artificial red blood cell
Reverse engineering of the brain - will be a key towards AI - will succeed in modeling most regions in 20 years
bulk of human intelligence - pattern recognition - an example of self-organization
language translation will be a feature on the phone.

Automated Classroom Video Streaming Pilot at the University of Minnesota
Class Capture to be the norm in 3-5 years
Value-added study aid
without operator is the key
vendors - Tegrity, Sonic Foundry, etc.
$7 million program implemented
3 phases
3rd phase: "low-end" - low-cost - asynchronous video streaming
AMS panel, mediapoint encoder, quicktime streaming server,
Sony color PTZ amx
Vadeo - expensive, $7k
high resolution video possible due to declining encoder prices
audio downloads - preferable for social sciences

EDUCAUSE 2006: Cerf's Uncovering Science in Computer Science

400 million webhosts
1TB memory on his home computer
Things that need improvement
- semantic web w/ tags - in early stage - manual - maybe moving to automated
- indexing sounds/imagery - much difficult w/ raw data
- localized - geo-indexing, also include time dimension
- meta-topics
- information decay - what do they mean? IP territory - to find ways to keep info useful
User-centric services - self-service, inverting a great deal of previous paradigm
Children - natural scientists - "Take this job and ship it" -
Technology Enrichment Programs
New Sputnik - global warming - framework for improving science in K-12
InterPlanNetary Internet - JPL - flexibility, 28kbps - transmission rate - now 128kbps - making standards - interplanetary backbone
NetNeutrality - Internet freedom - not very much choices -

Official Google Blog: Avoiding RSI

Official Google Blog: And we're back
A good way to deal with your own mistakes.

aungzayar's

aungzayar's is launched today! Recommit to aung zayar's 'blog' as well.

Mossy Nissan Sentra List

AutoTrader.com - Find Your Car: Search Results

ShoesOnTheWeb.com Display adidas Results

Finish Line :: Products

Are You a Star at Work?

Wired Campus Blog
From Chronicle

A VC: The Starbucks of the Internet
Interesting post on Google, its rapid growth and array of new services versus revenue-generating ones.

Good Morning Silicon Valley

Yahoo takes on iTunes with new music service | CNET News.com
$5 a month is the way it should be for music. We'll see how long Yahoo! will run as $60 a year since it said it is only introductory.

MercuryNews.com | 05/09/2005 | Text streaming service lets users read material as fast as they can

LinkedIn
Social Networking, more business focused.
Tribe.net - "tribes" of mutual interest
Friendster - more social
MySpace - for music
Thefacebook - for college students

New Scientist Google searches for quality not quantity - Technology

Blogs Will Change Your Business

How To Finance a Hollywood Blockbuster - Start with a German tax shelter. By Edward Jay�Epstein

Craiglist housing and Google Maps combined

Free Software Magazine - Free Software Magazine

adaptive path � ajax: a new approach to web applications

Mission | Ourmedia

The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: Geo-Greening by Example

footnoted.org | Home | Blog

USNO Astronomical Applications Department

Solstice Dates

The Weather Doctor's Diary: Season Dates

Guilt is Good: A New Approach to Environmental Problems - Knowledge@Wharton

Getting Credit for a Novel Approach to Offsetting Auto Emissions - Knowledge@Wharton

TerraPass - Reduce your carbon emissions from your car, fight climate change

Squashed Philosophers- Condensed

The Social Investment Forum: Promoting socially responsible investing, community investing and shareholder advocacy

GreenMoney Journal

WilderShares (ECO)

Cascadia Scorecard Weblog: Who Wants to be a Responsible Millionaire?

CSRwire.com -- Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire

Bloggers' Internet obsession

New cyber security protocol for online banking, and more

LOHAS Journal Online
Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability

UCSD Department of Economics Roundtable

Department of Economics Roundtable

Tom Brown's bankstocks.com
Independent insights on the financial services industry

Jybe! - CoSurfing re-invented

Inside Firefox - The Inside Track on Firefox Development

The De Soto Delusion - Peruvian Economist Hernando de Soto's ideas for helping the poor have made him a global celebrity. Now, if only those ideas worked. � By John�Gravois

PowerPoint Goes to the Fair

Google's AdWords gets API beta

Basics: Custom Tailor a Web Browser Just for You

Amazon directory shows storefront images

Geeksta rap

Zixxo is new classifieds kid on the block

Google to offer TV search

MSN Money - Invest in the coming global water shortage

SIWI - Stockholm International Water Institute

HBS Working Knowledge: Finance: Professors Introduce Valuation Software

Predictions Database

Thefacebook

FOLIOfn - Online Investing

Wired News: Investment Folio for Average Joe

Life Interrupted

Domestic Per Diem Tables Effective October 1, 2004

America�Who Needs It? - The global economy thrives without the United States. By Daniel�Gross

Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume One

We the Media

Inc.com | Strategies: The Don't-Take-It-to-Market Alternative

Henry Blodget's column in Slate

A sign of things to come in entertainment and commerce

Clinton Presidential Center