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eyeOS

http://www.eyeos.org/Languages/English EyeOS is a free, cross-platform Personal Content Manager System based upon the style of a Desktop Operating System. The base package includes the whole Operating System structure and ten applications.

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Send it down in your notebook, my wannabe Harriet the Spy

I learned about some of the perils of weblogging at a very young age - before there was really a web to speak of (although Tim Berners Lee was already experimenting over at CERN). I spent fifth grade in Parkwood, a suburb of Durham, North Carolina. It was a nice school

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The Lit List / Stories

http://www.thelitlist.com/ "The Lit List is a site where readers can submit links to online fiction from around the web and vote for their favorites." I've been looking for something like this for a while.

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AOL still don't get the Internet

http://benwerd.newsvine.com:80/_news/2006/03/03/117573-aol-still-dont-get-the-internet Lately there's been a furore about online community heavyweight America OnLine's decision to allow companies to pay to avoid being placed in the 'Spam' bin.

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AOL still don't get the Internet

http://benwerd.newsvine.com/_news/2006/03/03/117573-aol-still-dont-get-the-internet Lately there's been a furore about online community heavyweight America OnLine's decision to allow companies to pay to avoid being placed in the 'Spam' bin.

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How specific content for search engines may be destroying the web - and information

http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB114116587424585798-0qH9qUYuUug__vRSFKGvxIEwLGw_20070301.html?mod=blogs "In fact, search engines are more like a TV camera crew let loose in the middle of a crowd of rowdy fans after a game. Seeing the camera, everyone acts boorishly and jostles to get in

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Celebrity in social networks: how can we avoid the power law distribution?

In any information ecosystem, there is an observable tendency for a few sources on a topic - be they journals, websites or people - to have a massive following, a significantly smaller number to have a medium number of followers, and then a final, largest group to have a much smaller number

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Scuttle: Online Bookmarks Manager

http://scuttle.org/ A GPL del.icio.us clone written in PHP/MySQL.

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Working hard (with beer)

Working hard (with beer), originally uploaded by Ben Werdmuller. The things we do for Elgg - after a hard day presenting and consulting, we retired to the bar to do yet more project work. It's a busy life! (Photo taken by Dave on my slightly grainy Nokia phone.)

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MySpace and collective knowledge

Bill Fitzgerald put me onto this talk by Danah Boyd: Identity Production in a Networked Culture: Why Youth Heart MySpace. It's a good overview to the cultural issues surrounding teens on MySpace. It's a small Internet: I'm already familiar with Danah through her excellent

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Greetings from the snow

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A programmer in New York

Dave and I are pleased to be in New York State talking about Elgg and the Learning Landscape. We're very happy to have been invited and hope to foster an interesting conversation about the role of this approach in a K12 setting. I hope we can provide a