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I heard some buzz about a movement toward customer created ads.  It started with MoveOn’s Defeat Bush Ad contest, back in 2003.  This one comes from Current TV, a national cable and satellite channel dedicated to bringing your voice to television.
Here’s the video, produced by 19 year old Tyson Ibele […]

Did you know that people are making six-figure incomes by blogging? ….BLOGGING?
The moral statement is that people, through their own resourcefulness and a developing writing style, are producing an information product, a blog, that people want to read. Through the magic of Google Ads and other advertising facilities, they are drawing income, by […]

Jude2004 celebrated his 51st birthday yesterday. In his comment on Act like Natives, he (or she) claims to know more about technology than his students. He claims to be a native. Do I believe him? I sure do.
Yesterday I had the pleasure of presenting to nearly 200 school technology contact people […]

Several months ago, in an interview at the Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, venture capitalist, Vinod Khosla, was asked what he thought about the value of content in our evolving information-based economy. He said,

Content, today, is still the dominant thing. But one thing that I can say, is that it is […]

Periodically, Dave Sifry, CEO of Technorati, posts the State of the Blogosphere articles in his “Sifry’s Alerts” blog. Here are a few interesting points from his October 17 report:

A new weblog is created about every second.
Recent spikes are partly due to increase in Chinese blogs.
55% of new bloggers are still posting 3 months later.
13% […]

I’m sitting still for a few minutes here at the Minnesota Educational Media Organization (MEMO) conference in Mankato. The talk went well this morning, and I followed it with a workshop called “Harnessing the Digital Landscape”. Somehow, it ended with a tutorial on producing a podcast — I don’t know how that happened.
A […]

Jon Pederson wrote a blog yesterday (Challenge to the “New Information Environment”) about literacy in the “New Information Environment”. In it, he mentioned me and Will Richardson (hey, I’m going to notice any mention of me and Will Richardson in the same article), and other luminaries, in a discussion of literacy. I would […]

I posted an entry on Friday (The Ethics of Anonymity), that I expected a lot more responses on than I did. Either, being Friday, people were too busy trying to end the week on a positive note, or my topic wasn’t as controversial as I’d thought.
I have facilitated a number of extended workshops in […]

Before you read this, understand that I am neither a lawyer nor a philosopher, and the information here should not be construed as expert. Weigh it on its own merit. I’m just someone who likes to think about stuff.
I got up early this morning to respond to a comment I received many days […]

Luminary, Bonnie Bracey, shared with us (one of the mailing lists I monitor) an article from ZDNet, Wikibooks takes on Textbook Industry. Wikibooks is an interesting development from Jimbo Wells Wikipedia project, especially when thinking back on the Downers Grove Summit. You might recall that selected educators from suburban Chicago attended two days […]

I thought I was going to get through the entire day with nothing to talk about. I could say a lot about programming, but that would be really boring. Saving myself from interminable tedium, I took a break and thumbed through my latest print issue of WIRED. Quickly reading through an article […]

Both Tim Wilson and Will Richardson have commented on the Long Tail in recent days, each expressing a different perspective. Tim states (in Jargon watch: The Long Tail) that… (1st perspective)

…there are a lot of great thinkers out there blogging and working in the long tail. If you restrict your students to using a […]