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Slashdot | Is Wi-Fi Ruining College?
"It seems a bit of a stretch to impute a causal relationship, but it's certainly possible that the kind of brain that can handle multiple channels of information is also the kind of brain that earns A's."
Bud posted this on November 19, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
A VC: The Future of Media (aka Please Take My RSS Feed)
"if I were a television executive right now, I'd take my content, microchunk it, put a couple calls to a video ad server in the middle of it, and let it go whereever it wants to go"
Bud posted this on November 6, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Learning Space Design Interview with Bill Dittoe
Might be worth a listen. I think the real issue is to get the informal aspect right. The web is an incredible archive, but by and large, really only semi-structured by search and the like. It requires a flexible approach for classroom integration.
Bud posted this on September 21, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Online Higher-Education Market to Exceed $6B in 2005
Not entirely surprising, but still only a drop in the bucket of the total educational spend. Many aspects of education might be better accomplished online, particularly if any sort of archival material is involved. Does this include homegrown?
Bud posted this on September 21, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
A New Approach to Sharing Web Research
A web archiving tool. No notion of remixing, merely shares web content with selected others. One wonders how big the market can be for this. The archiving, not the collaboration features are the strong point.
Bud posted this on September 21, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Feed Digest : Mix, convert, and syndicate RSS and Atom feeds
A service that allows you to remix feeds, creating web pages or feeds on feeds. They've broken the 10k mark with about 3 remixes per user. Requires a technical understanding to use. No archive on your own site, just theirs.
Bud posted this on September 21, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Search: Big indexes versus microformats
Makes the point that adding metadata like tags and microformats needs to be ridiculously easy.
Bud posted this on September 15, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Mailinator:Spam Map
Uses google maps and their spam database to map spam. Can this itself be gamed?
Bud posted this on September 15, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (6) | TrackBack (0)
Socialmarks.com - Social Bookmarking. Social RSS/Atom Feed Syndication. Automated Trend Discovery.
Should we be doing this instead of the Learning Remix?
Bud posted this on September 14, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Google Blog Search
An extremely good blog searching tool by google. Search for LearningRemix
Bud posted this on September 14, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
NewsFire blocks RSS ads
"Is NewsFire the first of what may be many aggregators to block advertisements in feeds?"
Bud posted this on September 13, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)