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Saturday, October 31, 2009
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Obama's drug czar has said "legalization" isn't in his vocabulary. Here's why it should be.
Drug adviser asked to resign after comments - Channel 4 News
The government's chief drug advisor David Nutt is "extremely disappointed" after being asked to leave for claims that cannabis, ecstasy and LSD are less dangerous than alcohol and cigarettes.
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Friday, October 30, 2009
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Ustream Pairs Live Video With Simultaneous Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace Chat
We’ve already covered how viral the chat options on live video services like Ustream, Justin.tv, and Tinychat can be. By signing into these services with
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Why Aren't VCs Backing Augmented Reality?
Some people believe that Augmented Reality (AR), the class of technologies that place images or data on top of other views of the physical world, could be the ...
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
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Augmented Reality Apps Envision Big Bucks — Datamation.com
A recent report suggests that the potential for augmented reality apps to deliver eyeballs could produce major advertising revenue.
The Consumer Expert Group (CEG) was asked in the Digital Britain Report to report on the specific issues facing disabled people using the Internet.
Trucks and Transportation Industry Going Greener, Getting Smarter - Technology For Change
Trucks and Transportation Industry Going Greener Getting Smarter Technology For Change:
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009
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Techne » Virtual Programming Addresses Technology for Teaching Global Cultures
Virtual Programming Addresses Technology for Teaching Global Cultures
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Technology Review: Faster Maintenance with Augmented Reality
Global Neighbourhoods: SM Global Report: Howard Rheingold [Part 2]
Where we're going [Howard Rheingold. Photo by Oscar Espiritusanto] Note: This is part part 2 of two parts. You can see Part 1, Where we've been here. This title is just slightly misleading. Howard really offered no predictions of where people and technology is heading in the Conversation Age, and I didn't try to get him him to make forecasts. While his writings have displayed more than a little prescience, he is more of a thinker than a futurist. But he did offer some interesting observations about at least one emergent technology and some useful insights into his students at Stanford and UC Berkeley and from there you might draw some conclusions yourself. Q. You were an early champion of virtual reality, which may not have taken off as quickly as you forecast. Do you think it is still likely to evolve? How do you see it being incorporated into social media moving forward? You win some, you lose some. I can't really take credit for being prescient without taking blame for foreseeing events that have yet to come to pass -- may never come to pass. To be fair to myself, I did note that truly photorealistic immersive virtual worlds would not exist until sufficient affordable computation power came along, some time in the early 21st century. And people like Jeremy Bailenson at Stanford have been doing some extremely valuable social science research using today's version of virtual reality. There are some fundamental unsolved problems. If you can move your perceptions around a limitless virtual world, what keeps your body from slamming into the wall when you try to run toward the horizon? In regard to social media, I've spent enough time in Second Life to see exactly how seductive to a small portion of the population an immersive virtual world with photorealistic or Photoshop unrealistic avatars that can not only navigate and communicate but build and exchange landscapes, buildings, objects with behaviors can be. But it's work to create an avatar and learn how to navigate it and where the action is. In an infinite land
Global Neighbourhoods: SM Global Report: Howard Rheingold, Part 1
Where we've been [ [Howard Rheingold in his backyard giant sunflower patch. Photo by Shel Israel] Howard Rheingold is a founding father of the Conversational Era. He has spent much of his past 40 years exploring the impact and promise of the convergence of technology and the human brain. He is a student of the many people, incidents and trends that have brought us to today, and as a prolific thinker, writer and speaker, he has contributed significantly to the body of knowledge and thought. He's not sure just how many books and articles he has authored or collaborated on, since 1970, but Amazon offers 72 titles with his byline. Two of these books, The Virtual Community [2000] and Smart Mobs [2003] have profoundly influenced my thinking and writing over the past half dozen years and if you happened to be into social media he is among the early pioneers who blazed the trail the rest of us have followed. He has been a friend & colleague of many of the thinkers and doers who have delivered us to today and in many cases he can say he had been there and part of the collaborating team that did that. He has also been often prophetic in seeing the seeds that began as visions and have since become reality. Arizona-born in 1947, he graduated Reed College in Portland, Oregon, then moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, where he became an integral part of America's most controversial Renaissance Era. He drank the original KoolAid. He also dabbled at Xerox PARC, the legendary tech experimental tech center where, among other innovations, the personal computer's graphical interface was developed. He started writing professionally in 1970 and has rarely stopped for long. He was editor of the Whole Earth Catalog Millenium Edition, an almanac that supported the counter-culture lifestyle. Founded by thinker-enterpreneur Stuart Brand, Whole Earth Catalogs were a grassroots compendium of alternative lifestyle resources. A young hippie fruitarian of that time named Steve Jobs would later describe the Catalog as both the forerunner to the
Meet Wyoming Congresswoman Cynthia Lummis, who recently told Neil Cavuto on Fox Business: "The Republicans and I want something done on health care as well. But we would rather see a number of incremental steps taken over the next twelve months that
Future Vision 2012: Augmented Reality Predictions - Home - From the mind of Robert Rice
augmented reality, robert rice, mmo evolution, MMORPG, game design, virtual worlds, virtual reality, simulations, venture capital, entrepreneur, techpreneur, mobile, computing, futurist, trends, technology
The New, New, New Facebook: Hundreds of Thousands Organize in Protest
Although the latest Facebook homepage changes seem relatively minor compared to some of the more drastic moves the company has made in the past, there are once
LifeLogging: 22 Tools for Storing Your Life Online - Technology For Change
LifeLogging: 22 Tools for Storing Your Life Online Technology For Change:
Rainforest treaty 'fatally flawed' -Climate Change, Environment - The Independent
A vital safeguard to protect the world's rainforests from being cut down has been dropped from a global deforestation treaty due to be signed at the climate summit in Copenhagen in December.
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Monday, October 26, 2009
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Mike Jones Digital Basin : Weblog
Free digital book library useful for Machinima makers
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Sunday, October 25, 2009
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University Adds Mandatory Course on Twitter - PSFK
Austrailia's Griffith University has added a mandatory course on Twitter to their journalism student's curriculum.
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Saturday, October 24, 2009
Tim Berners-Lee and Tim O'Reilly
Tim Berners-Lee (World Wide Web Consortium),
Tim O'Reilly (O'Reilly Media, Inc.),
"A Conversation with Tim Berners-Lee" from the WEB2 event.
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First-time Internet users find boost in brain function after just one week / UCLA Newsroom
First-time Internet users find boost in brain function after just one week / UCLA Newsroom
Startup Claims Better Idea for Identity Management - Technology For Change
Startup Claims Better Idea for Identity Management Technology For Change:
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Friday, October 23, 2009
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Chrome Portable 3.0 Lets You Take Google's Browser Anywhere - Chrome - Lifehacker
Windows only: PortableApps.com—the folks who convert just about every popular application to a portable one you can carry with you on your thumb drive—have just released Google Chrome Portable 3.0, the portable version of Chrome's latest stable release.
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Thursday, October 22, 2009
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Turn Your Laptop or Desktop Into a Tablet PC - Digital Inspiration
3D Lifestream is all kinds of gorgeous
3D Lifestream is all kinds of gorgeous
Digital TV - News - 80 MPs back local TV channel on Freeview - Digital Spy
ULTV says 80 MPs have signed up to a Commons motion calling for a new local TV network on Freeview.
The real-world boom in online cities |Technology |The Guardian
The real-world boom in online cities
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009
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World Environment News - Space Agencies, Google Seek Ways To Save Forests - Planet Ark
OSLO - Space agencies and Google Inc are helping an international project to monitor forests by satellite to fight global warming, the head of an international earth observation group said on Tuesday.
GOAnimate: Simple to Use Free Online Animator
Ever fancy creating your own Star Wars party? Well GoAnimate is a free, easy-to-use online animator that lets you do that. You can use their online animator to
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Cyber-warriors Smarten Up on Virtual Battlefields - Technology For Change
Cyber-warriors Smarten Up on Virtual Battlefields
Is the Smart Grid a Dumb Idea? - Technology For Change
Is the Smart Grid a Dumb Idea? Technology For Change:
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
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CIA invests in firm that monitors social media conversation. Watch what you say.
Droid, the phone that finally lets me cancel my iPhone — here’s why | VentureBeat
A new phone called Droid is about to hit the market at the end of October that most likely will ...
Scientists find trawl of 32 new planets| Science| Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - European astronomers announced they had found 32 new planets orbiting stars outside our solar system and said on Monday they believe their find means that 40 percent or more of Sun-like
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Monday, October 19, 2009
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How SecondSecrets Fed Your Inner Desires - Metaversally Speaking..
Here today, gone tomorrow: why the next decade’s web won’t feel familiar | Blog | Futurismic
MediaShift . Why Bloggers and Citizen Journalists Deserve A Shield Law | PBS
The transparency trap: why open government might be worse than closed | Blog | Futurismic
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Sunday, October 18, 2009
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YouTube’s Bandwidth Bill Is Zero. Welcome to the New Net | Epicenter | Wired.com
YouTube may pay less to be online than you do, a new report on internet connectivity suggests, calling into question a recent analysis arguing Google's popular
The pocket spy: Will your smartphone rat you out? - tech - 14 October 2009 - New Scientist
Navigator, accountant and secretary in one, it knows more about you than you think – and will spill its secrets to anyone who has ways of making it talk
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Friday, October 16, 2009
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16 Top Augmented Reality Business Models | PERSONALIZE MEDIA
As promised a more specific 'commercial' follow up to my previous post on this topic which was more 'story' centric. I am developing and producing a range of
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16 Top Augmented Reality Business Models | PERSONALIZE MEDIA
As promised a more specific 'commercial' follow up to my previous post on this topic which was more 'story' centric. I am developing and producing a range of
Smarter Microchips Heal Themselves - Technology For Change
Smarter Microchips Heal Themselves Technology For Change:
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Thursday, October 15, 2009
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Wi-Fi Is About to Get a Whole Lot Easier - BusinessWeek
A consortium that includes Intel, Cisco, and Apple is set to release new technology called Wi-Fi Direct that will turn a slew of gadgets into hotspots.
10 Technology Exchanges Needed Now - Technology For Change
10 Technology Exchanges Needed Now Technology For Change:
IBM Encryption Breakthrough Could Secure Cloud Computing - Technology For Change
IBM Encryption Breakthrough Could Secure Cloud Computing Technology For Change:
October 14, 2009 Episode
irobot researchers have big brains
irobot researchers have big brains
Digital Urban: Google Building Maker: CANOMA(ish) + The Crowd = 3D Cities
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009
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AR Wave: Layers and Channels of Social Augmented Experiences | UgoTrade
AR Wave: Layers and Channels of Social Augmented Experiences
Tech Weekly: Martha Lane Fox on digital inclusion, Arduino explained |Technology |guardian.co.uk
We meet Britain's digital inclusion champion, Martha Lane Fox, and find out why everyone loves Arduino with the hackers and modders of Tinker.it. And Vic Keegan gives his thoughts on what went wrong after…
Scots Attempting to React to Proposed Irish Tax Breaks | GamePolitics
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009
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Best Personal Organization Tools - Technology For Change
Best Personal Organization Tools Technology For Change:
Digital Urban: Ordnance Survey: 3D Cities and Accuracy Never Seen Before
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Behind the Veil - The Globe and Mail
A six-part multimedia series that talks with women from all walks of life about their lives in one of the most dangerous cities in Afghanistan
Guardian gagged from reporting parliament | The Guardian - Neville's posterous
Institute of Contemporary Arts : Talks : Brian Eno & Steven Johnson
Making News in the Digital Era by David Henderson | Marketing Conversation™
In a world in which everyone seems to be a chicken little speaking of the end of traditional journalism, PR and advertising, there are very few people who are
Who will pay for the news? | Orient Lodge
Who will pay for the news? | Orient Lodge - Aldon Hynes' blog about politics, technology, psychology, literature, Connecticut, and anything else that catches his fancy
Five great new browser games to discover |Technology |guardian.co.uk
You've only just started the working week - let's put a stop to it right now, shall we?
DIP's Dispatches from the Imagination Age: Weapons of Mass Seduction: Why Soft is the New Hard
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Monday, October 12, 2009
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Augmented Reality, An Overview | GeoHackr
Augmented Reality has really been quite the buzz around the internet lately. And why shouldn't it be, the idea of programs giving you information on the fly
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Saturday, October 10, 2009
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DIP's Dispatches from the Imagination Age: ...Above Us Only Sky
...Above Us Only Sky
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China launches crackdown on online gaming by AFP: Yahoo! Tech
China has launched a campaign to crack down on online games operating illegally and featuring content deemed to be unhealthy, state media reported Friday, in the nation's latest Internet clean-up effort.
Yoko Ono’s Imagine Peace Tower due to burst into life in Iceland | IceNews - Daily News
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Friday, October 09, 2009
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European Union President | Lisbon Treaty | Tony Blair
The European Union as conceived by Jean Monnet did not have one president. The Lisbon Treaty creates the post of president of Europe. Tony Blair might be the first."> No comments:
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Oct 9th ReykjavÃk, Iceland: IMAGINE PEACE TOWER & John Lennon memorial concert | IMAGINE PEACE
In honour of the lighting of IMAGINE PEACE TOWER on 9th October 2009, Yoko Ono offers the general public free ferry crossings to Viðey on 9th, 10th and
A working manual discussing the formation and evolution of synthetic environments.
The People's Music Awards, The first and only global unsigned music awards and competition, dedicated to the promotion of new and unsigned bands. Listen to new and unsigned bands and listen to and vote for the best new and unsigned music in the world!
2nd Sex: Science as the Soul: Thoughts on Darwin, Margulis, and the spaces between
October 7, 2009 Episode
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Wednesday, October 07, 2009
Tuesday, October 06, 2009
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Yoko Ono: Studio 360 Podcast | IMAGINE PEACE
Yoko Ono Her signature howl made her brand of avant-garde music famous. But in recent years, Ono found mainstream success with five number one dance
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Microsoft’s insane new multi-touch mice demoed on video
The other day, I went on a short tour of some of Microsoft's Labs, where they do everything from rapid prototypes of new ...
Flash Arriving by Year-End on Every Smartphone Except iPhones - Flash - Lifehacker
Adobe has promised betas of a mobile-ready Flash 10.1 for Windows Mobile and Palm Pre late this year, and early next year for Android, Symbian, and BlackBerry phones, as well as NVIDIA-powered netbooks. The only hold-out? The iPhone, of course.
What’s Happening in Second Life? « Stepping Stones
What’s Happening in Second Life?
IMAGINE PEACE TOWER unveiling ceremony in Second Life on 09 Oct 09 | IMAGINE PEACE
‘I dedicate this light tower to John Lennon. My love for you is forever.’ Yoko Ono ‘Imagine all the people living life in peace’ John
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Monday, October 05, 2009
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DIP's Dispatches from the Imagination Age: Spectacular Human Alert: Patrick Huyghe
A Blog about Philosophy, Economics and Virtual Worlds
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Sunday, October 04, 2009
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BBC NEWS | Technology | Sony shows off 3D TV technology
Electronics giant Sony unveils some of its latest 3D technology, which it hopes will spark a new wave of 3D viewing.
Which airlines can you trust? - Yahoo! Travel UK
Find out which airlines are blacklisted from flyin in European airspace on Yahoo Travel UK. Which airlines can not be trusted?
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Saturday, October 03, 2009
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'Video games are a social network' | News | News.com.au
FORGET the "nerdy loner" image of gamers - video games have become far more social than people realise, writes Cam Shea.
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Marijuana's coming-out party is kicking into high gear across America -- but way to many people still are getting cuffed for it.
BBC NEWS | Technology | Experts question UK broadband tax
What will 50p a month from every household with a phone actually buy?
Google’s Wave – a brilliant analysis of our future
Catharine put together a fabulous thought piece on what Google's new 'Wave' signifies
Preparing for the digital afterlife |Technology |The Guardian
How should we deal with web users' Facebook, PayPal and other accounts when they log off for good?
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Friday, October 02, 2009
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Court serves injunction via Twitter - Channel 4 News
Court serves injunction via Twitter
Virtually Futuristic – Attention, Spoilers Ahead… « Beyond Distance Research Alliance Blog
Virtually Futuristic – Attention, Spoilers Ahead…
To Share or Not to Share, That is the Question – FreelanceSwitch
Copyright is as old as printing and as new as today. As freelancers, whether writing, designing for print or the Internet, broadcasting, filming, or
BumpTop Goes Multi-Touch. Um, Awesome.
What if the desktop on your computer was just like your actual desktop? That's the core idea behind BumpTop, a really nice looking ...
ICANN declares independence, breaks ties with U.S. government | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com
ICANN declares independence, breaks ties with U.S. government
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Thursday, October 01, 2009
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Charting the Final Frontier--Google Maps for Indoors - Technology For Change
Charting the Final FrontierGoogle Maps for Indoors Technology For Change:
Nathan Butler is the guest
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