links for 2008-01-14

• oxford internet institute | webcast | Internet Governance and Regulation: The Future of the Internet - and How to Stop It
  "This inaugural lecture by Jonathan Zittrain proposes a theory about what lies around the corner for the Internet, how to avoid it, and how to study and affect the future of the internet using the distributed power of the network itself, using privacy as
  (tags: technology policy internet zittrain law)
• Concurring Opinions
  "Concurring Opinions is a group blog with a broad emphasis on legal topics. It is run by Concurring Opinions, LLC, a Pennsylvania Limited Liability Company. Concurring Opinions regularly publishes contributions from blog members as well as guest bloggers.
  (tags: legal law blog)
• UChannel - The Future of the Internet - and How to Stop It
  Podcast: Jonathan Zittrain on Internet Governance and Regulation
  (tags: podcast zittrain internet governance regulation)
• Pistachio Consulting Inc. » Twitter is my Village
  An interesting look at Twitter and the community that can develop around its use...
  (tags: twitter social web2.0)

links for 2008-01-13

• Candidate Schedules from the NY Times
  The NY Times has a web page with a listing of candidate schedules. A nice way to anticipate where the candidates are visiting and what will the be the talking points of the day. You can also subscribe to the calendar with Google Calendar...
  (tags: calendar politics nytimes)

links for 2008-01-12

• Doodle: Easy Scheduling
  Doodle helps scheduling meetings and other appointments. Doodle is simple, quick, free and requires no registration. Simply set up a poll, send a link to ...
  (tags: doodle calendar web2.0 useful events howto)
• Summize - Discover reviews and blogs on millions of products
  Summize connects you with the opinions of millions of people on zillions of products. Summize scours the web for the latest user reviews and blogger discussions, surmise their sentiments, and summarize them.
  (tags: comparison shopping web2.0 mashup guide)
• bookr :: pimpampum
  Bookr is a mashup that allows you to create online picture books using images from Flickr...
  (tags: photography photo books flickr mashup)
• Former OLPC C.T.O. Aims to Create $75 Laptop - New York Times
  Pixel Qi is company founded by former OLPC CTO Mary Lou Jepson and it is looking to create a $75 laptop. It is trying to advance technologies developed for the OLPC into low-cost computers and power-efficient laptops, mobile phones and other consumer elec
  (tags: olpc laptop PixelQi jepson)
• BBC World Service - Find A Programme - Digital Planet
  BBC Digital Planet podcast with an interview with Mary Lou Jepson of Pixel Qi and formerly of OLPC.
  (tags: podcast bbc jepson pixelqi olpc)

links for 2008-01-11

• About « All Together We Can Do Our Best
  This site is led by Samuel Charles Sennott, who is a teacher focused on helping children and adults who have various labels of special needs succeed in school, communication, and writing.
  (tags: blog special-education special-needs)
• Talking Word Wall
  Utilize the OSX Voice over feature to create a personalized word wall system that has simple text to speech by clicking or arrowing into the letters or words on the word wall.
  (tags: education literacy web2.0 blog special-needs)
• Create personal mailing lists through contact manager
  Google makes it easier to manage mailing lists using Gmail.
  (tags: gmail google mail lists)

links for 2008-01-10

• TeacherTube - Online Photo Sharing in Plain English
  A simple explanation of backing up and sharing your photos on the web using online photo sharing services like Flickr.
  (tags: flickr photos photography commoncraft howto diy)

links for 2008-01-09

• 20+ Websites Optimized For The iPhone
  Mashable.com points to 20 sites that are optimized for viewing on the iPhone...
  (tags: iphone websites web2.0 mashable)

links for 2008-01-08

• library sponsored wireless in North Plains at walking paper
  Article about the North Plains Library's free wifi network in North Plains.
  (tags: library wifi wireless)
• Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Where did the computer go?
  An excerpt from "Burden's Wheel," the first chapter of The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google, by Nicholas Carr...
  (tags: web2.0 internet history carr)

links for 2008-01-07

• Guerrilla Warfare and the OLPC - OLPC
  Discussion about the possible use of the OLPB in a war zone...
  (tags: wireless olpc laptop 1:1)
• This American Life: Shouting Across the Divide
  A Muslim woman persuades her husband that their family would be happier if they left the West Bank and moved to America. They do, and things are good...until September 11. After that, the elementary school their daughter goes to begins using a textbook th
  (tags: podcast, thisamericanlife,PRI, NPR)
• YouTube Feeds
  A list of useful YouTube RSS feeds...
  (tags: youtube RSS video)
• The Story of Stuff with Annie Leonard
  Great video about our use of resources.
  (tags: video consumption stuff)
• An Interface of One’s Own
  NYTimes Magazine article by Virginia Heffernan about alternatives to word processors. Scrivener is highlighted among others..
  (tags: nyt writing technology medium scrivener)
• Literature and Latte
  Scrivener is a virtual writing studio that integrates the processes of outlining, storyboarding, research and writing. It's a notebook. It's an outliner. It's a cork notice-board. It's a ring-binder. It's a place to store and cross-reference your research
  (tags: scrivener software writing osx editors applications)
• Periscope
  Mac only web cam software that lets you use your iSight to capture activity in front of your Mac’s camera and then save or share that image simply and automatically. Several options for sharing including uploading to .Mac, FTP, email and Flickr...
  (tags: apple software surveillance webcam video osx security flickr)
• Mark Simonson Studio
  Fonts and graphic design...
  (tags: art graphics design fonts)

links for 2008-01-06

• Ideas and Thoughts from an EdTech » Blog Archive » What is Video?
  (tags: video)
• What This Gadget Can Do Is Up to You - New York Times
  Hackable PVR
  (tags: PVR video)

Pingie: RSS to SMS

Pingie is a web tool that allows you to sign up to receive SMS (text messages) messages whenever a particular RSS feed is updated. Might be useful to monitor sites within my district that are updated on a less frequent basis. An interesting way to keep up with your information flow. Regular SMS charges apply. Read more on the Pingie Blog...