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.