Smartmobbing Democracy Rebooting America- July 7, 2008 "peer-to-peer, self-organized, citizen-centric movements enabled by smart mob media will either demonstrate real political influence, be successfully contained by those whose power they threaten, or recede as a Utopian myth of days gone by."http://rebooting.personaldemocracy.com/node/41 Beth Simone Noveck: A democracy of groups- July 7, 2008 "it is the law that both circumscribes group power in the public interest and renders their work legitimate. ... By protecting the right of groups to form, hold assets, make decisions and work together law can democratize power."http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_11/noveck/ Political Collaborative Production Rebooting America- July 7, 2008 "political change will be generated by groups that start or sustain long-term action. If I had to pick one method of rebooting civic life ... finding new ways to grant groups the legitimacy essential to pursuing long-term & constructive goals"http://rebooting.personaldemocracy.com/node/75 The Ethics of Openness Rebooting America- July 7, 2008 "Now that we have the technological means to open up government and make every action transparent, we must insist on a new ethic of openness."http://rebooting.personaldemocracy.com/node/77 Echo Chambers = Democracy Rebooting America- July 7, 2008 "The persistence of "echo chambers" on the Net is not a failure of democracy. ... their continued existence is evidence not only of the fractures in our society, but of the gap between our ideals of democracy & the mechanics of human social intercourse"http://rebooting.personaldemocracy.com/node/34 O'Reilly -- Review: Sony PCM-D50 Portable WAV Recorder- July 7, 2008http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2008/01/10/sony-pcm-d50-recorder-review.html Portable Digital Audio Recorder Comparison Chart -- digitalmedia.oreilly.com- July 7, 2008http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/audio/portable-recorder-comparison/ OPSI: Public Sector Information Unlocking Service- July 7, 2008 "If you are trying to re-use some public sector information, but the data you need is locked-up, this service is for you."http://www.opsi.gov.uk/unlocking-service/OPSIpage.aspx?page=UnlockIndex AR Games Scheller Teacher Education Program- July 7, 2008 "working on creating "Augmented Reality" simulations to engage people in simulation games that combine real world experiences with additional information supplied to them by handheld computers"http://education.mit.edu/drupal/ar Confessions of an AcaFan: Augmented Learning: An Interview with Eric Klopfer (Part One)- July 7, 2008 Education Arcadehttp://henryjenkins.org/2008/07/an_interview_with_eric_klopfer.html |