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What are SplashCasts?
Today TechCrunch published an article about the official launch of SplashCasts.  For those who haven’t heard of them before here is a little blurb from their main page.
SplashCast enables anyone to create streaming media ‘channels’ that
combine video, music, photos, narration, text and RSS feeds. These
user-generated channels can be played and easily syndicated [...]

Last week I was watching our awesome TarHeel’s play basketball and just about every other commercial break included a very thought provoking advertisement from Cisco about what they called “The Human Network.”  In doing some research I realized that they have had this little campaign going on since the end of last year, but I [...]

Google Operating System, a blog I absolutely love, published an article today about a new(?) development on the Google Book Search that shows a contextual map of locations that are mentioned in a book. Fantastic idea for augmenting your literature study! They use “War and Peace” as an example of all the places [...]

“Memex” is a device that records everything to do… literally EVERYTHNG.  Video, audio, temperature, weather, what programs you are using on your computer… EVERYTHING.  It is a virtual memory of types. 
My Introduction to Memex
I first heard about this intriguing device about six months ago in a lecture given by John Oberlin (Associate Chancellor of [...]

So about a month ago I decided I would check out the online world of Second Life for it’s educational possibilities I kept reading about. 
I logged in, created my own bald (looking only a few years in the future) avatar and started looking around.  I was, of course, overwhelmed with the many, many ‘adult’ [...]

This afternoon I went to a meeting of the techie minds here on campus to discuss the implementation of Vista. There were quite a few people that acted like the implementation of Vista was a terrible, but necessary evil. A lot of the discussion focused around the new Office 2007 suite. From [...]

Lifehack.org posted an article today in which they declared this year the year of the Internet Presidency (in light of all of the recent announcements from US candidates for president). They then went on to list five ways we could all take advantage of the internet video. Great article… highly recommend for promoting [...]

I read today about the newest release of the Horizon Report and decided to take a quick look. For those who don’t know, the Horizon Report is released each ear by Educause and tries to pinpoint emerging technologies that are “likely to have a significant impact on higher education in the next one to [...]

I was just reading the Campus Technology News Update and a piece of news really got my attention.  Blackboard, which we use here on the UNC campus, is launching their own del.icio.us like social bookmarking site. 
This is really amazing.  I had a somewhat long conversation today with someone about commercial software uses in Education.  [...]

As most of you know… I love Google. I love almost everything about them. I have at least tried all of their products I can, and use G-mail, Google Calendar, Picasa Web Albums, Google Video, Google Reader, Google Notebook, Google Docs and Spreadsheets, and Google Maps at least a dozen times each day.
This [...]