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Instant messaging hits a growth spurt - Tech News - CNET.com Instant messaging hits a growth spurt. It's not just kid stuff any more. America Online offers a version of its instant messenger for big-business use, and players from AOL and Wall Street firms to the Internet's governing body move to end the messaging industry's fragmentation.
magazine: Microsoft's Weblog Software Picture the following scenario: Microsoft has created a weblog tool that is designed to run inside the firewall at a company. It's browser-accessible from any 4.0 or higher web browser and doesn't require Windows on the client. It leverages their strengths by integrating with Office, and there's no per-user client access fee. Then imagine if this weblogging tool were deployed to millions of users, all before anyone in the weblog community took notice.That scenario is real.
This article looks at Microsoft Sharepoint...
Smart Mobs - Book Summary Smart mobs emerge when communication and computing technologies amplify human talents for cooperation. The impacts of smart mob technology already appear to be both beneficial and destructive.
A new book by Howard Reingold.... A companion web site focuses on the social implications of technology...
Groove Networks - Groove-Related Weblogs
A number of people have created weblogs (or "blogs") devoted to, or frequently mentioning, Groove technology. Here are a few you can follow to get an idea of what people are saying about Groove.
Similar to what the folks at Macromedia are doing... Am thinking this would be interesting for the Innovation in Education site... Imagine blogs devoted to Wild Ride, Seeing Reason, Emerging Technologies... Right now everything is pretty static....
Imagine the teachers from Idaho keeping a blog about Wild Ride... Jim and Jane keeping a blog about Seeing Reason...
These could include everything from classroom instruction ideas, to information about bug and Java issues... Right now we really don't have a way for folks who are interested in the resources to get information about them, or to form any kind of community around them...
The blogs don't have to be posted in house. Macromedia is utilizing Blogger and Radio for their sites... Groove is using the Radio tool and hosting most at Radio servers... They are linked off of their web site, but the blog content resides elsewhere...
Something to think about....
Wiring the World: Kids
Using a policy of what he terms 'minimally invasive education', Sugata Mitra, the head of the Research and Development wing of NIIT, India's premier software and education company, has opened up the astounding prospect of making 500 million Indian children achieve basic computer literacy over the next five years.
Mitra's 'hole-in-the-wall' experiment consisted of plugging a high-powered Pentium PC with a high-speed data connection into a wall which separates his company's grounds from waste land which poor people use as their toilet. He connected the PC to the internet, left it on and allowed any passer-by to tinker around with it. The activity on the PC was monitored by him using a remote computer and a video camera mounted in an adjacent tree.
'Within a matter of a few days, slum children had learnt how to browse the internet' [Smart Mobs]
The Microbe Zoo: Middle-schoolers match microbes with regions of the world
HAMILTON, Georgia Growing up in rural Georgia, middle-schoolers tend to imagine that life-threatening parasites or bacteria are worlds removed from their bucolic community. [Innovation Odyssey]
Ten Reasons Why It ain't about the technology, it's about what you do with it: This article, "Is our children learning?" from Red Herring offers the usual Luddite screeds about technology in the classroom not living up to the potential predicted by its evangelists. Sigh. It's the same old story. Lots of hand-waving about the millions spent on computers but Johnny still can't read. Lots of blustery, accusatory rhetoric about tech companies providing training but Johnny still can't read.
another test
Aaron Swartz has set up his RSS aggregator to create an email list of his weblog... To subscribe, simply send a message to aaronswblog-subscribe@notabug.com and reply to the confirmation message you get back.
You can also email for help and a description of available commands.