Archive for October, 2007

links for 2007-10-25

Thursday, October 25th, 2007 | No Comments »

Google Continues to Bankroll Mozilla
Mozilla Foundatio makes $57 million a year from us using the google search box in the browser! I didn’t know that.
(tags: open+source foss)

Ensure Your IT Investments Have Lasting Impact
(tags: video+use)

Scratch | Home | imagine, program, share
Animation software.
(tags: animation)

Download free CSS templates – Free CSS Templates
(tags: looks+good)

links for 2007-10-24

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007 | No Comments »

BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » Editor 2.0
(tags: citizen+journalism citizenjournalism social+networks community+media media web2.0)

lotusmedia 2.0 » Crucial tweets
(tags: social+networks community+media)

MediaShift Idea Lab . Educate | PBS
having a go at re-working Educate Inform and Entertain for the online world.
(tags: e+democracy citizen+journalism community+media citizenjournalism)

Shane Richmond on why the NUJ is getting web 2 very wrong.
AGREED When I read [...]

Demos on Play and the Public Realm

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Nice job from Demos on a number of counts. This is good use of online social media – (this film appears on Youtube and their blog so you can watch it, comment on it and share it – hence social media) and a neat summary of the problem of children no longer feeling [...]

Read Dubber and…

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007 | 1 Comment »

weep.

Katine: Is this “the” nptech experiment?

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007 | No Comments »

The Guardian’s newly declared 3 year commitment to the village of Katine in Northern Uganda is an ambitious project using the principles of nptech. Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger sets out the three ways he think their long term online work for the community should work:

Get the STORY out there. To quote Rusbridger the newspaper [...]

One Life Changed by Trust in Beth Kanter.

Monday, October 22nd, 2007 | 4 Comments »

Leng is going to University after Beth Kanter raised the $1000 dollars it will cost in less than 24 hours. This worked simply because Beth knows how to use online tools like ChipIn, asks us to contribute to an individual and most importantly is known and trusted by hundreds of people.

If Beth tells me that [...]

Email Hail

Friday, October 19th, 2007 | No Comments »

As Chris Vallance so neatly puts it:
Oh the irony, the irony. The most emailed story on BBC News Online is this

Free Rice - online edugaming for goodness sake.

Thursday, October 18th, 2007 | 6 Comments »

Free Rice is simple, doesn’t require you to login and does three good things: Improves English vocab; Is Fun (in a computery addictive sort of way); Helps with world hunger by providing rice to hungry people for free.

It’s a game based on how good your vocab is. Every time you get a question right the [...]