Category: web 2.0
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Yelp Reviews
Yelp is a cool social networking website focused on reviewing and reading reviews of restaurants, night life hot spots, spas and “active life” destinations in a particular area. If you live in or are traveling to a major city (Boston, Chicago, Seattle, LA, NYC, Atlanta, Austin, etc) Yelp could be a great resource to find…
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Podcastercon Jan 7th
An excellent conference about podcasting is scheduled for this coming Saturday, January 7th. Podcastercon is a free conference being held at the University of North Carolina in Raleigh. I expect, given the unconference style of the event particularly, there will be lots of blog entries and podcasts available for those (like me) who cannot attend.…
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Riya and Photo Face Recognition
Whoa, this is quite an exciting development. Still in invitation-only alpha testing phase, Riya is a photo search website with technology permitting users to search faces for similar photographs. This is 21st century technology for sure. Thanks to Ewan Mcintosh for alerting me to this.
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Einstein Endorsement
Hey, is this cool or what?! Thanks to Andrew, a Flickr contact from Bejing, for alerting me to the amazing website archive where I discovered this image tonight! This one is also potential poster-material for a K-16 classroom near you! 🙂 Go ahead, make your own version! Playing in the web 2.0 world is equivalent…
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YouTube and Technological Anarchy
A new website, YouTube, is now serving millions of Internet videos online every day to a global audience. A Google News search will provide more current articles on YouTube and the discussion it is raising as will a Technorati search for the same term. The marketing slogan of YouTube is: Broadcast yourself. Watch and share…
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Open Source Tipping Point?
The following is a trackback response to a post Miguel Guhlin wrote on December 26th relating to open source and intellectual property issues, in part raised by his viewing of the excellent “Free Culture” web-presentation by Lawrence Lessig. I am with you on wanting to support open source alternatives, Miguel, but I don’t think the…
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Educational artists self-renew
I am about one-third of the way through the fantastic book “John Dewey and the Art of Teaching: Toward Reflective and Imaginative Practice” by Douglas J. Simpson, Michael J. B. Jackson, and Judy C. Aycock. I have taken 3 of my doctoral C&I classes from Dr. Simpson at Texas Tech, he is one of the…
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Can’t lawyers find anything better to do?
This is really ridiculous. Can’t our society do something to curb the financial incentives which exist for lawyers to pursue ridiculous cases? I would much rather see these people actually doing something VALUABLE with their lives rather than making headlines like this. According to today’s Business Week article, “Wikipedia: “A Work in Progress”: …on Dec.…
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Skype Headsets, Pamela, WeeMees & Videoconferencing
Skype is continuing to become more mainstream: adding more features and users and getting more attention in the news. In November, Skype announced it would begin selling headsets compatible with its VOIP network at Radio Shack this holiday season. I am not getting rid of our home landline yet, but if we can have landline…
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Uconference model and Dynamical Dialog
The upcoming Podcaster Conference in North Carolina (Podcastercon.org scheduled for January 2006) is taking a radically different approach to sharing ideas and networking at a conference. These ten ideas summarize what the organizers are trying to do, and the philosophy with which they are encouraging others to attend and participate. They are trying to operationalize…