November 14, 2009
URL shorteners like bit.ly present some profound problems for the health of the web: for one thing, they might vanish if they company that provides them goes bust (for some other things: it exposes your internet browsing to surveillance by random URL-shortening companies; it exposes you to malware and phishing attacks, and so on).
The first problem — URLs can vanish — looks like it may be solved soon. Many URL shortening companies are escrowing their databases of shortened URLs with the Internet Archive, an honorable, established nonprofit. If the companies go bust, their URLs will be redirected to the Archive and thus persist.
via URL shorteners suck less, thanks to the Internet Archive and 301Works – Boing Boing.
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Posted by Teb Locke
November 13, 2009
Google’s Chrome OS project, first announced in July, will become available for download within a week, we’ve heard from a reliable source. Google previously said to expect an early version of the OS in the fall.
What can we expect? Driver support will likely be a weak point. We’ve heard at various times that Google has a legion of engineers working on the not so glamorous task of building hardware drivers. And we’ve also heard conflicting rumors that Google is mostly relying on hardware manufacturers to create those drivers. Whatever the truth, and it’s likely in between, having a robust set of functioning drivers is extremely important to Chrome OS’s success. People will want to download this to whatever computer they use and have it just work.
via Google Chrome OS To Launch Within A Week.
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Posted by Teb Locke
October 19, 2009
In an age when online dialogue lasts no more than 140 characters, some have pondered just how relevant the business of blogging remains.
Those running one of the world’s most popular blogging platforms argue that this very personal way to share, sound off and express oneself has a healthy future ahead if the numbers are any guide.
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Posted by Charles Wachira
October 14, 2009
Free and open collaborative resource draws scholars from across disciplines.
The proliferation of Web 2.0 social networking Web sites such as Facebook, MySpace, and even Flickr got some people thinking: Which scholarly disciplines need better ways of researching, collaborating, and communicating, and could a social networking model play a role?
“Bioethics and applied ethics scholars are very interdisciplinary in their work,” said Kate McCready, EthicShare project director at the University of Minnesota, “The departments that most bioethics and applied scholars studied in and received degrees from don’t have the same names as the departments where they now work. They came from philosophy, religious studies, medicine, public health, etc., but now work in ‘bioethics.’”
[Source: Campus Technology]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
October 2, 2009
Dozens of colleges are embracing student blogs on their Web sites, seeing them as a powerful admissions tool.
[Source: New York Times]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
September 22, 2009
For whatever you find interesting, fascinating, or mind-blowing on Flickr, galleries are a way to curate up to 18 public photos or videos of your fellow members into one place. It’s an opportunity to celebrate the creativity of your fellow members in a truly unique way around a theme, and idea or just because.
via Flickr: Help: Galleries.
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Posted by Teb Locke
August 26, 2009
S. Craig Watkins, an associate professor of radio, TV, and film at the University of Texas at Austin, talks about the new age of social networking and media, and what it means for the classroom of the future. His soon-to-be-published book, The Young and the Digital: What the Migration to Social Network Sites, Games, and Anytime, Anywhere Media Means for Our Future, touches on those ideas.
[Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education - Wired Campus]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
