“‘We believe it’s important to put our money where our principles are. Consumers deserve more competition and innovation than they have in today’s wireless world. No matter which bidder ultimately prevails, the real winners of this auction are American consumers who likely will see more choices than ever before in how they access the Internet.’”
Courtesy [...]
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“Larry Lessig gets TEDsters to their feet, whooping and whistling, following this elegant presentation of ‘three stories and an argument.’ The Net’s most adored lawyer brings together John Philip Sousa, celestial copyrights, and the ‘ASCAP cartel’ to build a case for creative freedom. He pins down the key shortcomings of our dusty, pre-digital [...]
Publish Blogroll Straight out of Google Reader
Posted in Symphony on Nov 6th, 2007
I’ve been waiting for this since Day 1.
“Head over to the ‘Tags’ section on the settings page, make one of the tags you use for subscriptions public, and click on ‘add a blogroll to your site.’ For an example, head over to my personal blog, and you can see my blogroll in action [...]
“I believe that this online art gallery helps boost the students’ pride and self-esteem, technology awareness and multicultural understanding. Further, it also enables parents, relatives and friends to view the child’s artwork online. I encourage you to take an active role in your child’s art education by participating in Artsonia.”
This little nugget came [...]
Hugh McLeod does the cartoons. His writing also completely rocks.
Expressive Capital
1. First we had Human Capital. You! There! Go to the next village and kill everybody because I’m the Chief of this village and I say so etc.
2. Then came Physical Capital. Land, property, factories etc.
3. Then came Financial Capital. Money, credit, dollars etc.
4. [...]
Information R/evolution
Posted in Symphony on Oct 14th, 2007
More killer YouTube from Michael Wesch.
Strange, Networked Moment
Posted in Symphony on Oct 13th, 2007
David Warlick presenting.
Me testing the stream out to the web.
Later in the afternoon Warlick was demoing NetVibes. This picture of the two of us popped up front and center.
It was taken by Steve Dembo. In Chicago. He found us on TV. EdTV. http://edtv.wikispaces.com.
My head spun really hard testing out this [...]
I’ve been working the past month to package my “learning 2.0″ pollen into 20 minute messages.
Click on the pretty blue text for a profound message.
Interesting Gmail Tip
Posted in Symphony on Sep 28th, 2007
I’m reading Made to Stick right now.
The 2nd annual K12 Online virtual conference is just about a month away. The 2007 conference is scheduled to be held over two weeks, October 15-19 and October 22-26 of 2007, and will include a preconference keynote during the week of October 8.
The conference theme is “Playing with Boundaries.”
The event is completely free. It [...]
It’s Called a Convocation
Posted in Symphony on Aug 27th, 2007
My seemingly endless summer tour took me to the University of Wisconsin Platteville to speak at their 2007 convocation.
convocation |ˌkänvəˈkā sh ən| noun
1. a large formal assembly of people. • a formal ceremony at a college or university, as for the conferring of awards.
2. the action of calling people together for a large formal assembly.
I [...]
