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Jokosher is a simple yet powerful multi-track studio. With it you can create and record music, podcasts and more, all from an integrated simple environment.
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SLOP is a tool that converts builds made into Second Life or OpenSim in a format that is compatible with either one of the worlds.
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Watch the world’s leading TV channels in the highest quality plus your favourite web channels, all in one free player.
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School for Tomorrow (SFT) is a private, nonprofit secondary school (grades 6-12) opening in September 2009 in Montgomery County, Maryland with a one-of-a-kind, cutting edge education model designed for the 21st century.
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As preparation for a workshop I am giving this fall I thought it would be interesting to collect together all the diagrams of PLEs I could find, as a compare and contrast sort of exercise. Dave Cormier.
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LMS’ speak the language of the current power structure in education: control, accountability, manageability. PLEs, in contrast, are concerned with individuals and personal learning – at least a partial return to ancient education models. Most discussions of PLEs address the individual learning opportunities they afford…but fail to move into a discussion of the reasons why they are still fringe tools. And will continue to be so until power relationships change.
links for 2009-01-02
Posted by Sean FitzGerald on January 3, 2009
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links for 2008-12-22
Posted by Sean FitzGerald on December 23, 2008
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James Boyle introduces readers to the idea of the public domain and describes how it is being tragically eroded by our current copyright, patent, and trademark laws. In a series of fascinating case studies, Boyle explains why gene sequences, basic business ideas and pairs of musical notes are now owned, why jazz might be illegal if it were invented today, why most of 20th century culture is legally unavailable to us, and why today’s policies would probably have smothered the World Wide Web at its inception.
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A report by the Global e-Sustainability Initiative says the power it takes to send and receive signals from cellphones and other wireless electronics creates the same amount of carbon dioxide per year as that generated by the aviation industry. According the report, 830 million tonnes of carbon dioxide is generated worldwide each year to keep communications towers buzzing.
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Bill Gates wrote a paper titled The Internet Tidal Wave in 1995. It’s a concept that’s been used quite extensively since then. This was the document used as prove of the real concern od Bill Gates about Netscape's browser (Navigator) on the Anti-trust process at the and of the Browser War I.
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ViOS (Visual Internet Operating System) was a client-server software system designed by Julian Lombardi in the mid-1990s and built by a team he led at ViOS Inc. from 1999-2001 as a way of spatially organizing all Internet-deliverable resources (including web pages) into a massively-scaled multiuser 3D environment with users of the system represented as customizable avatars. The basic concept behind the "ViOS 3D Internet Viewer" was to take the virtual world of the entire Internet and adapt it to a physical representation of large virtual landscape, complete with mountains, rivers and cities. This approach was taken because of the belief that virtual landscapes resembling our physical world are more conducive to exploration and social interaction than the flat and abstracted world of the current document-based Internet.
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One in five US teens has sent nude or partially-clothed images of themselves to someone by email or mobile phone and twice as many have sent sexually suggestive electronic messages, a survey shows.
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Fresh off the press, just finished coding a tool to that will export all the posts in your Tumblr blog into an XML file. You can then import that XML file into your WordPress.com blog or self-hosted WordPress blog.
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights infographic movie
Posted by Sean FitzGerald on December 21, 2008
In (belated) honour of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights here is the document presented as an infographic movie (with a political message about Aung San Suu Kyi at the end):
It’s important to bring the Universal Declaration of Human Rights into the forefront of our awareness from time to time, as the fight to bring human rights to all is still an ongoing process.
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links for 2008-12-16
Posted by Sean FitzGerald on December 17, 2008
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KickYouTube serves up an elegantly simple solution: simply go to the YouTube video you’d like to download and insert the word “kick” at the start of the URL. The final url would look something like http://kickyoutube.com/watch?v=39pZ1r3MG2Q, and options to download the clip are provided at the top of the page.
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Microsoft's Craig Mundie has dismissed the potential of "synthetic virtual worlds" like Second Life, saying that the potential for immersive environments will be likely realized through 3D tools that capture and model the real world.
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The action bias, or the desire to do something rather than nothing when you have just been through a terrible experience, plays a powerful role in our lives. It influences individuals and companies, investors and leaders. You can see the action bias on display in current thinking on the housing and economic crises, in the bitter debates over the war in Iraq — even in discussions about how to fix a football team that's a perennial loser.
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The waning days of the 20th century seemed like an Orwellian nightmare: laws preventing publication of scientific research on software; laws preventing sharing software; an overabundance of software patents preventing development; and enduser license agreements that strip the user of all freedoms—including ownership, privacy, sharing, and understanding how their software works. This collection of essays and speeches by Richard M. Stallman addresses many of these issues.
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Use ViWoGeo to find places of interest that exist in the real world as well as out in the digital metaverse. At current the database contains links to Second Life.
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SoCal Connected tracked down some surreal sights associated with the crisis – a company that specializes in removing whatever people leave behind in their foreclosed homes. The process is called a “trashout” – a term the company came up with because it perfectly describes what happens. Everything that’s left is dumped in a trailer and taken to the landfill.
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links for 2008-12-14
Posted by Sean FitzGerald on December 15, 2008
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We're now reaching the end of a cycle, we're seeing feature wars. That's what's going on between Facebook and Google, both perfectly timing the rollouts of their developer proposition to coincide with the others' — on the very same day! I don't even have to look at them and I am sure that they're too complicated. Because I've been around this loop so many times. The solution to the problem these guys are supposedly working on won't come in this generation, it can only come when people start over. They are too mired in the complexities of the past to solve this one. Both companies are getting ready to shrink. It's the last gasp of this generation of technology.
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Seth Godin on Tribes
Posted by Sean FitzGerald on December 12, 2008
If you are interested in community formation and have an hour to spare you should check out this presentation by Seth Godin on Vimeo where he talks about the ideas in his book Tribes.
Here are the slides from the presentation:
Seth Godin on Tribes – SlideShare
Update – 13/12/08: As per Andrew’s comment below the Vimeo embed is working now. Thanks to Andrew for posting the video online. See Seth Godin On How To Build And Lead Your Tribe. : Mixergy.com
I would have embedded the video here as well, but when I tried I got this message:
Seth Godin on Tribes–via Mixergy.com
Some “feature”! I’m not sure what Andrew Warner has against WordPress.com. At least Seth lets me embed his slides. 
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links for 2008-12-02
Posted by Sean FitzGerald on December 3, 2008
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The Works With U 1000 identifies businesses and organizations across the globe that have made the move to Ubuntu on servers, desktops and/or mobile devices. We are not suggesting that Ubuntu is the best solution for all companies and organizations. Rather, Works With U strives to help organizations identify how, why and where Ubuntu is gaining critical mass.
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So what is The Levelator? It’s software that runs on Windows, OS X (universal binary), or Linux (Ubuntu) that adjusts the audio levels within your podcast or other audio file for variations from one speaker to the next, for example. It’s not a compressor, normalizer or limiter although it contains all three. It’s much more than those tools, and it’s much simpler to use. The UI is dirt-simple: Drag-and-drop any WAV or AIFF file onto The Leveler’s application window, and a few moments later you’ll find a new version which just sounds better.
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Despite valuable early contributions to the web 2.0, much of the discussion within the education community has been speculative. This Commentary sets out to challenge the confident portrayal of web 2.0 by many educationalists in terms of an imminent transformation of learning and teaching. Careful thought has therefore been given to how technologists, educators and learners can best shape the fast-changing internet in the near future. It aims to explore how education can change the web, as well as how the web can change education.
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WP plugin that adds a Twitter-style quick post box on your blog. Inspired by the Prologue theme.
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The world’s first rich media webcasting solution – and it’s open source.
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“Back to <virtual> school”. Issue on education in virtual worlds.
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Social networking fosters collective intelligence, collaborative work and support communities. Tools and behaviors from the consumer world are now making the transition to the corporate world, with diverse implications for changing the way businesses operate. This paper explores 10 opportunities presented by social networking, along with 10 associated challenges.
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The NMC today released the first in a new series of regional and sector-based Horizon Reports with the Horizon Report: 2008 Australia-New Zealand Edition.
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Home of the Guild Research 360° Reports. Our reports illuminate best-practices, trends, benchmarks, and industry suppliers and are based on data collected in more than 32,000 member profiles and by in-depth surveys on various topics of critical importance. Each survey we conduct is designed by a crack team of industry thought leaders.
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The Future of Money: How millions of currencies are about to change the world
Posted by Sean FitzGerald on November 20, 2008
via English :: “El futuro del dinero” which has the text version.
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Amazing demo of the future of augmented reality using mobile devices
Posted by Sean FitzGerald on November 20, 2008
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