Ted Ritzer: Learning TechnologiesStrategic Technologies for Education(Untitled)- November 30, 2005 Mac Mini Kaleidoscope Project Leaked. Lately I've been researching ways to add a Mac Mini to my home theater set, and maybe even replace my second-generation TiVo in the process. Now it looks like I won't have to work very hard: Apple is set to unveil a new Mac Mini at MacWorld that includes Front Row 2.0, DVR functionality and an iPod dock. This project is dubbed Kaleidoscope and will be aimed at the living room, according to ThinkSecret. The Mini will have Intel inside, like lots of other...http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/learningTechnologies/2005/11/29.html#a3911 (Untitled)- November 24, 2005 eHub. A current list of new web applications and services with a focus on social software, web 2.0, Ajax, ruby on rails, tagging, folksonomy, and next generation web. NewsIsFree: Recent Additionshttp://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/learningTechnologies/2005/11/24.html#a3904 (Untitled)- November 23, 2005 Dueling simplicities. Most of my writing goes straight to the web, but my column still takes a detour through the print magazine. Usually that's no problem. I'm not a news hound. And while I'm comfortable editing myself, I enjoy the thoughtful feedback I get from Neil McAllister who, in addition to editing my column, writes his own. Every now and then, though, I wish I could have bypassed the print loop. Case in point: next week's column on two-way RSS. I wrote it last week; it will appear on...http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/learningTechnologies/2005/11/22.html#a3898 (Untitled)- November 23, 2005 Hauppauge Live TV Tuner. Add live TV to your PC with the WinTV HVR-900 TV Tuner, a very small USB 2.0 stick that plugs right into your laptop or any computer to let you receive analog and digital terrestrial TV. Not a bad thing to have when you're stuck at the airport and don't feel like watching Fox News, the HVR-900 comes with a high-gain aerial, letting you receive up to 40 digital channels. It also lets you record live TV to your hard drive and burn DVDs at 1.68GB per hour. Of course, the.http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/learningTechnologies/2005/11/22.html#a3897 (Untitled)- November 23, 2005 Linux Desktop Making Major Gains via Intel. Today on LXer.com, two of my collaborators joined me in writing a story about Intel's Government Assisted PC Program in rural China. Word of the program came from a source we believe came from inside Intel. Basically, the story is a leak. ... As we researched and vetted the article, I came to realize that the company could single handedly replace Microsoft as the largest supplier of Desktop software globally. Their initiaitves in developing nations...http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/learningTechnologies/2005/11/22.html#a3896 (Untitled)- November 22, 2005 Microsoft adds e-mail, IM hosting to Windows Live. (InfoWorld) - Microsoft Corp. has introduced a test version of a hosted e-mail and instant-messaging service (IM) as part of the beta release of Windows Live. As part of its set of free online services, Microsoft will host the e-mail and instant messaging for a domain an Internet user already owns, according to a Web site describing the new Windows Live Custom Domains service, http:domains.live.com. Users also can sign up for the service on...http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/learningTechnologies/2005/11/22.html#a3894 (Untitled)- November 22, 2005 Still in the First Coming of Library Feeds. The Second Coming of Content and RSS Feeds“Dave Winer recently pointed to a post by Adam Green, which explored similar territory. Adam thinks 2006 will be the year the Web explodes:"The explosion I am talking about is the shifting of a website's content from internal to external. Instead of a website being a ‘place’ where data ‘is’ and other sites ‘point’ to, a website will be a source of data that is in many..http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/learningTechnologies/2005/11/22.html#a3892 (Untitled)- November 22, 2005 Novell scores desktop Linux wins. Novell has signed an agreement to deliver 1,600 Linux powered desktop computers to high schools in the state of Indiana. Meerkat: An Open Wire Servicehttp://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/learningTechnologies/2005/11/22.html#a3891 (Untitled)- November 22, 2005 TiVo Connects with IPod, PSP (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - Digital video recording pioneer TiVo (Nasdaq: TIVO) has tweaked its TiVoToGo service to let subscribers transfer recorded TV content to Apple iPod or Sony (NYSE: SNE) PlayStation Portable (PSP) devices. Yahoo! News: Technology Newshttp://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/learningTechnologies/2005/11/21.html#a3888 (Untitled)- November 19, 2005 Michael Covers Library 2.0 Whitepaper from Talis. Today is turning into a very lucky day for me, because I was also going to write about the recent Talis whitepaper on Library 2.0, along with some context for what libraries should be starting to talk about in this area. However, Michael beat me to it on the ALA TechSource Blog. It's a great post, too, so click the link and go read it! The Shifted Librarianhttp://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/learningTechnologies/2005/11/19.html#a3876 |