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Vital Signs
http://www.mosdeux.com/vitalsigns/ A short film told in American Sign Language. Amazing.
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Microsoft and Creative Commons Release Tool for Copyright Licensing
Link The organizations announce availability of Microsoft Office add-in that enables easy access to Creative Commons copyright licenses. This is huge.
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How can I help my young friend?
http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/40483#623656 A fantastic answer to a question on Ask Metafilter about how to talk to "troubled" children, from a 13 year old. Rings very true and highlights important problems; definitely worth a read.
Is it all over for bloggers?
http://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/news/archives/Main/Is+it+all+over+for+bloggers.htm Alan Rusbridger, Editor of The Guardian, defends the ongoing value of newspapers in the face of competition from bloggers. Includes the full lecture in streaming video.
A new chapter
Life is full of changes. Some of them are mundane (new haircut, new car); some of them are exciting (new job, new family). One of the most exciting things you can do is take something you love and transform it from the seed of an idea into something much bigger,
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Be careful what you say
Posted without comment, although it fits very well with the things Dave and I have been writing for the past month or so about how your data can be misused if you don't have control of your system: Pentagon sets its sights on social networking websites.
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People come first
The heat is almost stifling here in Oxford; all the windows are open and sun is streaming in through my window. I hope you're all having similar weather, although I also hope your offices have better ventilation than mine. Cory Doctorow Visits a Radio Shack is very funny
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Elgg and Moodle, sitting in a tree
... Inter-opra-bil-i-tee First comes love Then comes marriage And then comes the Elgg Moodle integration block, courtesy of Catalyst. Thanks to Penny, Martin and the team for their hard work on this awesome functionality. To clarify: the Elgg side of the integration comes out of the box with Elgg 0.6,
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Net neutrality is a free speech issue
You may have read about 'net neutrality' in the papers recently, or maybe seen it on TV. At first glance it seems like a simple business issue: telecommunications providers, who own the cables and data links that form the Internet backbone, want to be able to prioritise data
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Elgg 0.6 and beyond!
It's taken a lot of work, but as you may have seen on the news blog, Elgg 0.6 final is now available to download. What's been really awesome about this release is the input from the wider community. As the system has matured, we'
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What's in a name?
Over on Boing Boing, Cory Doctorow has a piece about the O'Reilly / Web 2.0 trademark issue that I mentioned yesterday. O'Reilly are asserting that Web 2.0 is their trademark, thereby assuring everyone they've well and truly jumped the shark in terms of
Paying for your education; paying for Web 2.0
This is slightly depressing: a potential student, stuck in his cubicle job and desperate for the qualification he needs to get out, is hoping to pay for his MBA course by selling 10,000 3"x3" art squares for $5 each. Best of luck to him, says I.