Windows Vista Community: Windows Vista Beta 2 Customer Preview Program – Get it while it’s hot! Hint: you’ll need a DVD burner.
technorati tags:vista, microsoft
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Look Out, It’s UGC!
Today’s mash-ups remind me of those Time magazine collages: all cutting and pasting, signifying nothing.
WSJ.com – Portals- Why Getting the User To Create Web Content Isn’t Always Progress
Good piece. Puts the current mash-up craze into perspective. You could think of it this way: we all have access to cheap paper and pencils, that doesn’t make us writers or reporters or aritsts. I do write a mean shopping list. Just because the tools exist does not mean that everyone is a blogger or writer or reporter or artist. Now the lowere threshold for planet wide distribution that the net provides does mean that we may have a better chance of finding a blogger or writer or reporter or artist whose work we enjoy, but it doesn’t create that talent just provides an outlet.
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My notes on custom casebooks.
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presentation materials
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Review these for additon to WP.
Banning Laptops in the Classroom: Ars Technica Weighs In.
The question of banning laptops in class: it’s academic, silly – Great piece. The author sees the problem: unfettered net access in the classroom. All of the dust up about laptops in the classroom has the distraction of net access at its core. After rushing to throw wifi into every nook and crany for no real reason, America’s institutions of higher education are looking to curtail that access. Faculty are definitely pushing back about student wireless access in the classroom, epsecially since there are no killer apps that require such access.
technorati tags: wireless, clasrooms, higher_education
More TV on the Web: Cancelled Episodes
Brilliant20But20Cancelled – Cool idea: critically acclaimed but popularly ignored TV series re-incarnated on the web and DVD. This Universal site provides access to select episodes of cancelled series plus, more on DVD.
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Burning Feedburner’s Barn
How to compete with FeedBurner – Scripting News – Dave’s take on how to eat Feedburner’s lunch. As usual, a good read.
technorati tags: Dave_Winer, feedburner