buridan's blog

Every Week on Tuesday (1:30-3pm SLT) join us for Lessons in Second
Life, an open table forum centering on what can be learned in sl in
both formal and informal settings. The forum is open to faculty,
students, and interested parties of all kinds. We meet at the
_blacklibrary hyperborea 91, 30, 26 im buridan simon for more
information. Come share your ideas for learning in Second Life

http://slurl.com/secondlife/hyperborea/92/30/26/

yesterday's discussion had a heated discussion about:
a. the merits of using the web in world
b. how one goes about moving data in and out of the world using http
put and get
c. what we can learn from Second Life's intellectual property regime
and how one can appropriate/liberate textures for artistic and
educational uses.

Internet Resources - Writers Resources - Writing Links & Writers Links for Writers - Word Stuff :

some great writing resources

Jill points us to this excellent graphic showing who owns which web 2.0 companies. the concentration is pretty clear, but what does it mean for academics? or students?

c4LPT: Top 100 Tools:
This list is being compiled from the Top 10 Favourite Tools lists of a growing number of contributions from e-learning professionals. Thanks to all of them! The tools they mention could be used for their own personal learning/working or for creating learning solutions.

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I use some of these....

Welcome to ccLearn —
ccLearn:
ccLearn is a division of Creative Commons which is dedicated to realizing the full potential of the Internet to support open learning and open educational resources (OER). Our mission is to minimize barriers to sharing and reuse of educational materials — legal barriers, technical barriers, and social barriers.

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They hired a gentleman from Duke to be the executive director. I interviewed for that position. I think CCLearn can do interesting things, it has some money and it has the motivation. The question is can they deal with the culture of learning and the institutions which form that around the world.

System Administrator Appreciation Day

July 27th, 2007 (Last Friday Of July)

8th Annual
System Administrator Appreciation Day

http://www.sysadminday.com/

If you can read this, thank your sysadmin

Web Trend Map:
This is amazing! You HAVE to go poke at this web trend map created by the folks over at Information Architects.

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this is pretty cool. it is like subway map of informational tools

Walk Score - Walkable Neighborhoods:
Picture a walkable neighborhood. You lose weight each
time you walk to the grocery store. You stroll
home from last call without waiting for a cab. You spend less money on
your car—or you don't own a car. When you shop, you support your
local economy. You talk to your neighbors.

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walkable neighborhoods are my favorite. you can use this to check to see how walkable your neighborhood around work or home is.

About Us
(The Open Library):
What if there was a library which held every book? Not every book on sale, or every important book, or even every book in English, but simply every book—our planet's cultural legacy.

First, the library must be on the Internet. No physical space could be as big or as universally accessible as a public web site. The site would be like Wikipedia—a public resource that anyone in any country could access and that others could rework into different formats.

Second, it must be grandly comprehensive. It would take catalog entries from every library and publisher and random Internet user who is willing to donate them. It would link to places where each book could be bought, borrowed, or downloaded. It would collect reviews and references and discussions and every other piece of data about the book it could get its hands on.

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sweet idea