Interesting funding concept. A Web site called DonorsChoose.org was set up originally to allow New York teachers to make small proposals for projects and materials and to facilitate direct contributions from the public to fund those projects. The idea is spreading to other states and to cover operating expenses of schools. DonorsChoose works like a marketplace, with teachers posting their ...
Read More »Some Rights Reserved
Please watch the 3 minute flash movie! Here is a neat concept … some rights reserved. By registering your content here you can give people the right to access it and then remix it. Others will have the rights to pieces of your old term papers, art work, photographs, and even your original music. This is a very innovative idea ...
Read More »A Blogosphere article
An interesting academic research paper on the evolution of the Blogosphere and how it mirriors the evolution of urban society.
Read More »Does size matter? Thumbs, that is
Here’s an article about how encompassing cell phone use is in Japan. It’s a way of life. The phone is an extension of the self. The Japanese are way ahead of the US in third-generation phone use, so is this a foreshadowing of what’s to come in the US? I dunno. Seems to me these things are like single frames ...
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