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October 2007

October 02, 2007

Best wishes to all bidders

October 02, 2007

You will all be finishing off your bids. I just wanted to wish you the best and to say we look forward to reading them! ...

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October 08, 2007

Non violence and the new world order -another reason why podcasting is a good thing?

October 08, 2007

Introductory lecture, "Non-Violence and the New World Order" by Michael Nagle from the University of Californ-i-a at Berserkley, for his course, Nonviolence Today - Spring 2007 - The development of nonviolence since the Civil Rights movement. Nonviolent theory and practice seen in recent insurrectionary movements (freedom struggles), social justice struggles, nonviolent intervention across borders and protection of the environment ...

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Googlized? Yes, but...

October 08, 2007

I was going to post this as a comment to Cristina's post, but wonder if people read comments? I have loved Google for a long time: since Steve Gibson alerted me to the original beta in September 1998. One search, and I binned AltaVista, the Mining Company (about.com) and Yahoo pretty much for ever. But my concerns are raised ...

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October 13, 2007

More on the mesh

October 13, 2007

I might have got this one right (also posted on Emerge here): "For my money, Web 3.0 is the mesh: mobile and open and peer-to-peer." Why? It's not just the One Laptop Per Child $100 Laptop (specs) that's developing in this direction. According to In-q-tel, the CIA's investment arm, "Wireless mesh networks are increasingly being called upon by the ...

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October 18, 2007

Second Life in Education

October 18, 2007

Thanks to Stephen Downes, here for this: Jo Kay and Sean FitzGerald Explore the Educational Uses of Second Life. He is right, "... This is a remarkable list of educational applications in Second Life - easily the most comprehensive I've seen anywhere - with descriptiopns, links and screen shots." A feast for the mind's ...

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