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scratch license disappointment 
Bill Kerr via Bill Kerr on Sat, 29 Nov. 2008
If there could be a synergy between free software and the best constructionist software then that would be so much better for the poorest children of the world ...Unfortunately, the Scratch team at MIT Media Lab does not appear to support that. Very unfortunate because Scratch is currently the best available beginners constructionist software IMHO ...
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360 Cities Brings Stunning Spherical Panoramas To Google Earth
Robin Wauters via TechCrunch on Fri, 21 Nov. 2008
Color me impressed with this one: Prague-based 360 Cities, a network of ‘Virtual Reality’ photographers promoting high-resolution spherical imagery, has integrated its portfolio of stunning 360° panorama shots into the Featured Preview Layer for Google Earth.
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Internet Not the Child-Devouring Swamp Many Adults Fear
(unknown author) via Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily on Thu, 20 Nov. 2008
Could be a bigger study, but the conclusions are in accord with my own intuitions. "A three-year research project... finds that the stereotypical idea of the Internet as a soul-devouring, anti-social wasteland for our kids is just plain wrong. If you suspected otherwise, now you know you were right." Here's the link to the
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Google Kills Lively
Erick Schonfeld via TechCrunch on Thu, 20 Nov. 2008
Even Google is getting into the downsizing spirit. It just announced that it is killing Lively, its browser-baseed virtual worlds that could be embedded into other Websites.
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Is Flutter a CCK for WordPress?
dnorman via D'Arcy Norman dot net on Tue, 18 Nov. 2008
Following a thread through some blog posts this morning - I started at The Reverend’s post about Martha’s documentation of her hacking on WPMU, including a description of a WordPress plugin I hadn’t heard of before -
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7 Things You Should Know About Flip Camcorders
(unknown author) via Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily on Mon, 17 Nov. 2008
It's definitely worth looking at the Flip video camera. Capturing something like 13 percent of the video recording market in the first year, the Flip camera is a phenomenon. But I'm not sure these are the seven points I would pick to highlight about the Flip. How many ways can you say "by making it easier it increases the risks," anyways? (Answer: 4. Items 4 through 7.) The really important points
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Twine, del.icio.us, and event-driven service integration
Jon Udell via Jon Udell on Mon, 17 Nov. 2008
Last week on Interviews with Innovators I spoke with Nova Spivack about Twine, a service that’s been variously described as the first mainstream semantic web application and “just del.icio.us 2.0″. You’ll find support for bot
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The early adopter and “Waiting for Godot”.
Artichoke via Artichoke on Sat, 15 Nov. 2008
I spent much of the last ten years teaching teachers how to use thinking strategies and technologies for learning. Although I have witnessed radical and ubiquitous family, community, business and society wide adoption of ICTs in New Zealand in this time, I have yet to observe any significant school wide adoption of effe
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Intimacy 2.0
(unknown author) via Six Pixels of Separation - Mar on Fri, 14 Nov. 2008
At what point do you have too many friends, followers and subscribers? The big question we keep hearing about all of these online social channels is, "does it scale?" Maybe the better question is, "why does it have to scale?"
Welcome to Intimacy 2.0.
Right now, most of the online social networks and communications channels s
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Microsoft's New Photo Sharing Service: Live Photos
Frederic Lardinois via ReadWriteWeb on Thu, 13 Nov. 2008
Microsoft today announced a new photo sharing product, Microsoft Live Photos, which integrates very nicely with Microsoft's Windows Live Photo Gallery desktop photo application, and is yet another product in the long list of Windows Live services tha
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Small Basic Teaches Kids How to Program
Lidija Davis via ReadWriteWeb on Sat, 08 Nov. 2008
After a year in the making, and with very little fanfare, Microsoft last month launched Small Basic, a free programming language aimed at kids. Unlike Scratch and
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David Lynch: Consciousness, Creativity and the Brain
(unknown author) via Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily on Fri, 07 Nov. 2008
A nice Friday video for you - film director David Lynch lectures at UC Berkeley on the topic of consciousness and creativity. Nice, too, that the lecture was free in person as well as online. Here's the blurb: "The inside story on transcending the brain, with David Lynch, Award-winning film director of Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, Mullholland Drive, Inl...todo... The inside story on transcending the b
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How to Model Deliberate Practice in the Classroom
(unknown author) via Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily on Wed, 05 Nov. 2008
I oftent talk of teaching being 'modeling and demonstrating' (rather than 'information transfer'). But what does that mean? Modeling and demonstrating what? This post is a good insight into this. Things like goal-setting and self-reflection can be explicitly demonstrated. "While natural talent may be
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Let A Thousand Web APIs Blossom
Robin Wauters via TechCrunch on Mon, 03 Nov. 2008
ProgrammableWeb has been doing a fantastic job chronicling web app APIs for over three years, and today they reached a milestone, surpassing 1000 APIs tracked. ProgrammableWeb is a great resource for developers cooking up great mashups, so kudos to them.
Qui
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australia's digital counter-revolution
Bill Kerr via Bill Kerr on Fri, 31 Oct. 2008
From "digital revolution" to counter revolution in a mere ten months. Senator Stephen Conroy, Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy is threatening to censor the internet of illegal material in Australia at ISP levelHere is Mark Newton's argument against, which leads to the conclusion that Conroy's proposal will lead to increased child abuse:The online c
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The Rise of Generation We
(unknown author) via Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily on Thu, 30 Oct. 2008
Alec Couros writes, "If the reality of the new generation emerges into something this ideal, I for one welcome our young millennial overlords." Ale
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What do Google Reader engineers read?
Mike Knapp via Google Reader on Thu, 30 Oct. 2008
We are all passionate feed readers on the Google Reader team. For us, working on Reader is a dream job. Why? Because we have the perfect excuse when we're caught browsing feeds at work!
For a bit of fun, and to show you what we like reading, we've put together a bundle of our favorite feeds. After much deliberation, we've narrowed down our "Staff Picks" to the following:
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WorldWide Telescope - New Release!
(unknown author) via MSDN Blogs on Thu, 30 Oct. 2008
Shared by Robert Scoble
It made me cry all over again! Seriously, nice.
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User Privacy Concerns By Geography: A Flickr Study
Michael Arrington via TechCrunch on Wed, 29 Oct. 2008
This picture was presented by Elizabeth Churchill, Principal Research Scientist at Yahoo at a meeting I am attending today. It shows the privacy settings of a sample of a million Flickr users from 2005. Red spots note users who have
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