Archive for the 'New Permutations' Category

“Big Mother” as Cognitive Tutor

Author: tom | 08 April 2007 | 1 Comment
Categories: Assembly Lyin', Big Mother, Crumbware, New Permutations

In my last post, I suggested that education would do well to mine the wealth of information that can be derived from digitally tracking student movements. A lot can be learned through amassed patterns of student use within software virtual environments and actual physical environs. Today Education Week reports about a New Breed of [...]

Yahoo’s Shared Time Capsule

Author: tom | 15 November 2006 | No Comments
Categories: New Permutations

I don’t know how I missed this great site while it was open, but Yahoo’s Time Capsule is a fantastic interactive exploration of life in 2006. I’m sure there must be cyber vandalism lurking in some corner, but what I saw was a lovely appreciation – both in the original postings as well as [...]

Jonathan Coulton’s “Flickr”

Author: tom | 13 September 2006 | 1 Comment
Categories: New Permutations

Take a creative and talented alternative folk singer who’s tuned to Web 2.0 and you’ll get Jonathan Coulton’s “Flickr” (16 mg Quicktime movie).  It had to happen and it couldn’t have come from a better source.  You can also get just the song (which is lovely as is).  Thanks.

“It’s not Always like you think”

Author: tom | 13 September 2006 | 2 Comments
Categories: New Permutations

According to one study at Coventry University:
the use of text message abbreviations is linked positively with literacy achievements.
Perhaps just like the pundits who said videos would spell the end for movies attendance (wrong) and music file sharers would never pay for music (not!), maybe the obvious isn’t true with text messaging? Could be that [...]

MS Still Not Getting it

Author: tom | 04 September 2006 | No Comments
Categories: New Permutations

Realizing that a culture of sharing can create overnight successes like YouTube, Microsoft has started to (sort of) sing a different hymn. Hoping to tap into all that teenage talent out there among young Gamers, Microsoft has created a new platform for developing Xbox 360 games. A quick look at any site that [...]

Web 2.0 on These Days PBS show

Author: tom | 18 August 2006 | 1 Comment
Categories: New Permutations

These Days hostTom Fudge held a good background program on Web 2.0 that you can listen to or get as a podcast. CNET Editor-at-large Brian Cooley and Michael Arrington on his live show on Monday, May 8, 2006. Here’s a quick way to hear about the kinds of sites in the WebQuest referred [...]

Colbert Analyzes Wikipedia

Author: tom | 03 August 2006 | 1 Comment
Categories: New Permutations

Reposted on YouTube Colbert has a go at “Wikiality” – the process of group think entered into Wikipedia can turn falsehoods into agreed upon reality. The interesting thing is that the lay person’s insight into Wikipedia is that it’s full of rubbish. I wonder how many have used it? Better yet, how many [...]

the knock on your door at midnight…

Author: tom | 04 June 2006 | No Comments
Categories: New Permutations

The New York Times reports on a new twist on Internet Searching in “Online Throngs Impose a Stern Morality in China.” It seems it started with a cuckholded husband: the liaison first starting at a World of Warcraft gathering. The man’s wife hooked up with a college student and began an affair. [...]