Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
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The need for real security in a virtual world
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Post to Monitor 06/29/2010 (a.m.)
Minamo – Water-based Touchscreen (Time to get your hands wet!)
Facebook Snags the Guy Who Built Google's Chrome OS
Facebook Snags the Guy Who Built Google's Chrome OS
Thoughts on the Resolution of Nothing - Tim Howgego
Thoughts on the Resolution of Nothing
A Technology Innovator’s Move to Mobile - NYTimes.com
Technology Innovator’s Mobile Move
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Monday, June 28, 2010
How Cognitive Surplus will change us
Clay Shirky teaches New Media as an associate teacher[3] at New York University’s graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program.
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Saturday, June 26, 2010
PLATO - An Early Online Community
On June 3, 2010, the Computer History Museum hosted a 6-session conference on the PLATO learning system. Session 6 was entitled "An Early Online Community: People Plus Computing Grows Communities."
Session 6 Description:
The developers of PLATO didn't set out to build an online community. So how did it turn into one? In 1972 few suspected that a human community could grow and thrive within the electronic circuitry of a computer. But two years later the world's first online community was flourishing on PLATO, using technologies that didn't become widely available elsewhere for decades: discussion forums, email, chat rooms, instant messaging, presence awareness, screen sharing, and multiplayer games. Today's social computing is different -- but not all that different than what existed "back then" on PLATO. This panel will explore the similarities and differences, including the early elements in place at PLATO that led to its success. How did the community organize itself? Why was it so successful? What was missing? What can we learn from these experiences? What's next? Discussion panelists are: Lili Cheng, Kim Mast and Dave Woolley. Moderated by Charlene Li.
PLATO Overview:
PLATO was a centralized, mainframe-based system, with very sophisticated terminals connected to it. Its mission was to deliver education electronically at low cost. But it became much, much more than that. It quickly became home to a diverse online community that represented a microcosm of today's online world. Much of what we take for granted in today's hyper-active, always-on world of social media, blogs, and addictive computer games could be applied to what life was like on the PLATO system beginning in the mid-1970s.
PLATO, an acronym standing for "Programmed Logic for Automated Teaching Operations," started as a project of the Coordinated Sciences Laboratory (CSL) at the University of Illinois in 1960. The original goal was to build on the mechanical "teaching machine" work of B.F. Skinner and instead see if it was possible to build a computer that could teach. In time they discovered not only was the answer yes, but computers could be extremely effective, and economically viable, at teaching large segments of the population.
In the 1970s, Control Data Corporation entered into a series of agreements with the University of Illinois to commercialize the PLATO system and bring it to the marketplace. The result was a great expansion of PLATO throughout the U.S. and the world, with systems installed in Canada, France, Belgium, Israel, Sweden, Australia, South Africa, United Kingdom, and elsewhere. Fifty years on, PLATO has left its imprint across a wide range of computing activities, from e-learning to social media, from online multiplayer games to major hardware and software innovations.
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Singularity University GSP '10 Opening Ceremony
Singularity University Graduate Studies Program opening ceremony, featuring Larry Page, Larry Brilliant, Peter Diamandis, Ray Kurzweil and NASA Astronaut Dan Barry. Singularity University is an interdisciplinary university that aims to study and use technology growth to address the greatest challenges facing mankind.
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Friday, June 25, 2010
BAVC Producer's Institute 2010 - Always in Season Island
For almost a century until the mid-1960s, tens of thousands of ordinary people attended the lynchings of over 4,700 African Americans that often included hours of torture, mutilation and photographs.
The documentary "Always in Season" examines the impact this form of racial violence still has on Americans today with intimate accounts from spectators, their relatives, and family members of lynching victims.
Developed at the Bay Area Video Coalition in San Francisco over the course of 10 days in early June, the proof-of-concept "Always in Season Island" in Second Life gives visitors a personal sense of the choices and circumstances that brought men, women, and children out to watch lynchings in every state across the U.S. but four.
As visitors learn about this intrinsic part of American history and share the experience in an interactive environment, students and educators can gain strategies for preventing targeting and group violence in their own communities today.
Stay tuned for more! Info at http://www.alwaysinseasonisland.com
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Tuesday, June 22, 2010
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Bye bye bifocals, hello electronic spectacles - Telegraph
Bye bye bifocals, hello electronic spectacles
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Monday, June 21, 2010
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The Trilogy of Webs for Machines: Mashing It All Together
The Trilogy of Webs for Machines: Mashing It All Together
Ray Kurzweil Vows to Right E-Reader Wrongs - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
Ray Kurzweil Vows to Right E-Reader Wrongs
Digital Urban: Transparency and the City: Public Spaces or Forgotten Places?
Transparency and the City: Public Spaces or Forgotten Places?
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Sunday, June 20, 2010
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Parliament of Things
Fly Around Your City With Yell's 3D Maps
Fly Around Your City With Yell's 3D Maps
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Saturday, June 19, 2010
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They built Pandora: The ultimate guide to Avatar's designers
They built Pandora: The ultimate guide to Avatar's designers
Senators propose granting president emergency Internet power | Politics and Law - CNET News
US Senators propose granting president emergency Internet power
Costner on Govt Bureaucracy: “Like Playing a Video Game” | GamePolitics
Costner on Govt Bureaucracy: “Like Playing a Video Game”
China, Zynga and the Growing Clout of Digital Communication - Pixels and Policy
China, Zynga and the Growing Clout of Digital Communication
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Friday, June 18, 2010
A Conversation with Jon Rafman
Second Life served as the setting for art podcast Bad at Sports’ recent interview with Rafman/Kool-Aid Man, where the artist’s rumbling autotuned voice muses on a series of fascinating existential subjects as we float through the technicolor backdrop of “the ultimate tourist destination… turbo-charged Las Vegas and Dubai combined. Where every possibility and combination of landscape and architecture can exist.”
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Post to Monitor 06/18/2010 (a.m.)
Interview with Bruce Sterling, Part I: At the 9am of the Augmented Reality Industry, are2010
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Thursday, June 17, 2010
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MOVIE | The Singularity is Near » Homepage
The Singularity is Near - The Movie Home
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Tuesday, June 15, 2010
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Lifehacker Pack for Mac: Our List of the Best Free Mac Downloads
Lifehacker Pack for Mac: Our List of the Best Free Mac Downloads
U.S. Identifies Vast Riches of Minerals in Afghanistan - NYTimes.com
U.S. Identifies Vast Riches of Minerals in Afghanistan
Military-Grade Augmented Reality Could Redefine Modern Warfare
Military-Grade Augmented Reality Could Redefine Modern Warfare
Ancient ocean may have covered third of Mars
Ancient Ocean May Have Covered Third of Mars
In the Singularity Movement, Humans Are So Yesterday - NYTimes.com
Merely Human? That’s So Yesterday
The Steampunk Tribune: Happy International Steampunk Day!
Happy International Steampunk Day!
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Monday, June 14, 2010
UK Pavilion - Expo Shanghai 2010
Heres a movie of British designer Thomas Heatherwicks UK Pavilion for the Shanghai Expo 2010.
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Saturday, June 12, 2010
David Byrne: How architecture helped music evolve
As his career grew, David Byrne went from playing CBGB to Carnegie Hall. He asks: Does the venue make the music? From outdoor drumming to Wagnerian operas to arena rock, he explores how context has pushed musical innovation.
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Post to Monitor 06/12/2010 (a.m.)
The S Word: UK science: first cut in a strategic area
UK science: first cut in a strategic area
Simple way to create nanocircuitry on graphene developed
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Friday, June 11, 2010
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Kevin Costner sells 32 oil spill machines to BP to recycle 6 million gallons of water a day (photos)
Kevin Costner sells 32 oil spill machines to BP to recycle 6 million gallons of water a day
The Imagination Age: Mything Links by Jean Houston
Mything Links by Jean Houston
How To Plan Ahead For Your Digital Demise : NPR
How To Plan Ahead For Your Digital Demise
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Thursday, June 10, 2010
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How to Manage Your News Consumption in the Real-Time Web Era
How to Manage Your News Consumption in the Real-Time Web Era
Kiwi preservationists unearth "time capsule" of long-lost US silent films
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Wednesday, June 09, 2010
Post to Monitor 06/09/2010 (a.m.)
A Teen’s Take On Tween Social Networks | Ypulse
A Teen's Take On Tween Social Networks
Serious Games, Science Communication, and One Utopian Vision « The Scholarly Kitchen
Serious Games, Science Communication, and One Utopian Vision
VisionMobile :: blog :: The past, present and future of Mobile Video Telephony
The past, present and future of Mobile Video Telephony
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Tuesday, June 08, 2010
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US drones: inside the tools of modern warfare - Channel 4 News
US drones: inside the tools of modern warfare
Immortal avatars: Back up your brain, never die - life - 07 June 2010 - New Scientist
Immortal avatars: Back up your brain, never die
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Monday, June 07, 2010
Post to Monitor 06/07/2010 (p.m.)
Australia Latest Country to Investigate Google
Australia Latest Country to Investigate Google
Australian Police Deputize Facebook
Australian Police Deputize Facebook
A Geekgasm at 9am in the Augmented Reality Industry – are2010: Bruce Sterling’s Keynote & Will Wright
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Post to Monitor 06/07/2010 (a.m.)
Neanderthals walked into frozen Britain 40,000 years earlier than first thought, evidence shows
Neanderthals Walked Into Frozen Britain 40,000 Years Earlier Than First Thought, Evidence Shows
MixedRealities :: So you think we are so cosmopolitan in our virtual communities?
So you think we are so cosmopolitan in our virtual communities?
How the military improved its language education - Boing Boing
How the military improved its language education
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Sunday, June 06, 2010
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Titan: Nasa scientists discover evidence 'that alien life exists on Saturn's moon' - Telegraph
Titan: Nasa scientists discover evidence 'that alien life exists on Saturn's moon'
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Saturday, June 05, 2010
Economic Hitmen
An animated interview of John Perkins, author of 'HoodWinked' and 'Confessions Of An Economic Hitman'
Copyright of the audio belongs to John Perkins.
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Post to Monitor 06/05/2010 (p.m.)
Director Wim Wenders Hails 3D as an “… ideal tool” for Documentaries » Cyber Hermit
Director Wim Wenders Hails 3D as an “… ideal tool” for Documentaries
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Post to Monitor 06/05/2010 (a.m.)
HTML5 Video Made Hackable By Handroll.tv
HTML5 Video Made Hackable By Handroll.tv
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Friday, June 04, 2010
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Wednesday, June 02, 2010
Yoko Ono: Inspired By Iceland
Yoko Ono would like you all to know how beautiful Iceland is, and how much I love the country and its people.
"Thank you, Iceland and Icelanders for being what you are - a family of wisdom, showing the world how we can protect our Earth and its spirits."
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John Underkoffler points to the future of UI
Minority Report science adviser and inventor John Underkoffler demos g-speak -- the real-life version of the film's eye-popping, tai chi-meets-cyberspace computer interface. Is this how tomorrow's computers will be controlled?
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Post to Monitor 06/02/2010 (a.m.)
KAREN, VLENZ Update 171, June 01, 2010 « Virtual Life Education New Zealand
All NZ education to get real Broadband speeds
Content key for 3D uptake in the home | Broadband TV News
Content key for 3D uptake in the home
Who Needs Windows? Google Starts Putting Their Computers Where Their Mouth Is
Who Needs Windows? Google Starts Putting Their Computers Where Their Mouth Is
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Tuesday, June 01, 2010
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Warren Ellis » Re-Covering NEW WORLDS
Re-Covering NEW WORLDS
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