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Edge 250 - George Dyson's "Engineers' Dreams"

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:22:04 -0000

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Digital Vision Program » Ken Banks

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 05:37:09 -0000

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kiwanja.net :: Where technology meets anthropology, conservation and development

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:04:37 -0000

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PC World - Business Center: Anthropology's Technology-driven Renaissance

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:04:08 -0000

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Others include mobile phones with multiple phone books, which allow more than one person to share a single phone, a practice largely unheard of in many developed markets.

Mobile phones with flashlights are just one example of a product that can emerge from this brand of user-centric design. Others include mobile phones with multiple phone books, which allow more than one person to share a single phone, a practice largely unheard of in many developed markets.

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Commonwealth of Learning - Education for a Digital World

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:42:05 -0000

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trackstick II

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 05:30:35 -0000

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YouTube - BMW GINA Light Visionary Model: Premiere

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:35:36 -0000

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Social bookmarking - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:34:39 -0000

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Social bookmarking is a way for Internet users to store, organize, share and search bookmarks of web pages. In a social bookmarking system, users save links to web pages that they want to remember and/or share. These bookmarks are usually public, but depending on the service's features, may be saved privately, shared only with specific people or groups, shared only inside certain networks, or another combination of publicness and privateness. The allowed people can usually view these bookmarks chronologically, by category or tags, via a search engine, or even randomly.

The concept of shared online bookmarks dates back to April 1996 with the launch of itList.com. Within the next three years, online bookmark services became competitive, with venture-backed companies like Backflip, Blink, Clip2, Hotlinks, Quiver, and others entering the market^{[citation needed]}. Lacking viable models for making money, this early generation of social bookmarking companies failed as the dot-com bubble burst.

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Using Brainwaves To Chat And Stroll Through Second Life: World's First

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 03:39:16 -0000

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Instant Messaging Proves Useful In Reducing Workplace Interruption

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 04:44:02 -0000

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YouTube - Robots with a mind of their own

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 02:47:15 -0000

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SimTeach: Information and Community for Educators using M.U.V.E.'s

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 23:59:13 -0000

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AFP: Paralysed man takes a walk in virtual world

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 01:11:19 -0000

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Paralyzed Man 'Walks' In Second Life | Game | Life from Wired.com

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 01:04:07 -0000

Researchers at Japan's Keio University have created an experimental headset designed to monitor brain waves that allowed a man who had been paralyzed for more than 30 years to control a Second Life avatar using only his thoughts.

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Ideas and Thoughts from an EdTech » Blog Archive » Multi-tasking and the Backchannel: Powerful learning or more noise

Mon, 26 May 2008 20:01:47 -0000

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Groklaw - Digging for Truth

Tue, 20 May 2008 15:55:04 -0000

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GigaOM Favs: 10 Blogs We Love - GigaOM

Mon, 19 May 2008 22:57:02 -0000

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Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Here Comes Everybody

Sat, 03 May 2008 21:06:51 -0000

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Desperate Housewives essentially functioned as a kind of cognitive heat sink, dissipating thinking that might otherwise have built up and caused society to overheat.

And it's only now, as we're waking up from that collective bender, that we're starting to see the cognitive surplus as an asset rather than as a crisis. We're seeing things being designed to take advantage of that surplus, to deploy it in ways more engaging than just having a TV in everybody's basement.

And I said, "No one who works in TV gets to ask that question. You know where the time comes from. It comes from the cognitive surplus you've been masking for 50 years."

So how big is that surplus? So if you take Wikipedia as a kind of unit, all of Wikipedia, the whole project--every page, every edit, every talk page, every line of code, in every language that Wikipedia exists in--that represents something like the cumulation of 100 million hours of human thought. I worked this out with Martin Wattenberg at IBM; it's a back-of-the-envelope calculation, but it's the right order of magnitude, about 100 million hours of thought.

It's precisely when no one has any idea how to deploy something that people have to start experimenting with it, in order for the surplus to get integrated, and the course of that integration can transform society.

At least they're doing something.

Did you ever see that episode of Gilligan's Island where they almost get off the island and then Gilligan messes up and then they don't? I saw that one. I saw that one a lot when I was growing up. And every half-hour that I watched that was a half an hour I wasn't posting at my blog or editing Wikipedia or contributing to a mailing list. Now I had an ironclad excuse for not doing those things, which is none of those things existed then. I was forced into the channel of media the way it was because it was the only option. Now it's not, and that's the big surprise. However lousy it is to sit in your basement and pretend to be an elf, I can tell you from personal experience it's worse to sit in your basement and try to figure if Ginger or Mary Ann is cuter.

But media is actually a triathlon, it 's three different events. People like to consume, but they also like to produce, and they like to share.

One per cent of that is 100 Wikipedia projects per year worth of participation.

I think that's going to be a big deal. Don't you?

Well, the TV producer did not think this was going to be a big deal; she was not digging this line of thought. And her final question to me was essentially, "Isn't this all just a fad?" You know, sort of the flagpole-sitting of the early early 21st century? It's fun to go out and produce and share a little bit, but then people are going to eventually realize, "This isn't as good as doing what I was doing before," and settle down. And I made a spirited argument that no, this wasn't the case, that this was in fact a big one-time shift, more analogous to the industrial revolution than to flagpole-sitting.

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What's the next big thing for the wireless industry? - San Jose Mercury News

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:23:16 -0000

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Plasma vs LCD: Which is right for you? - TVs

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:31:02 -0000

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Apart from better contrast due to its ability to show deeper blacks, plasma screens typically have better viewing angles than LCD.

Plasmas can also produce a brighter colour, once again due to light leakage on an LCD affecting its colour saturation.

Traditionally, the biggest advantage plasmas have had over their LCD cousins is price, particularly in the large screen end of the market.

LCDs tend to have higher native resolution than plasmas of similar size, which means more pixels on a screen.

LCDs also tend to consume less power than plasma screens, with some estimates ranging that power saving at up to 30 per cent less than plasma. LCDs are also generally lighter than similar sized plasmas, making it easier to move around or wall mount.

LCD pundits also point to the fact that LCDs have a longer lifespan than plasma screens. This was true of earlier plasma models, which would lose half of their brightness after more than 20,000 hours of viewing. Later plasma generations have bumped that up to anything between 30,000 and 60,000 hours. LCDs, on the other hand, are guaranteed for 60,000 hours.

If you're in the market for a big screen television -- and we're talking 50-inches and above -- then we'd suggest plasma as a safe bet. Plasmas give you more bang for your buck at the big end of town, and while LCDs can give you better resolution, plasma still has the edge in terms of picture quality.

One other thing to look for, whether you opt for plasma or LCD, is an integrated tuner -- many TVs still have analogue tuners, which look pretty terrible on a large screen. Try to get a model with an inbuilt HD tuner if you can.

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