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October 15, 2008  9:00 AM

What is Blog Action Day? A chance to help fight global poverty.



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Blog Action Day is, according to its founders, "an annual nonprofit event that aims to unite the world’s bloggers, podcasters and videocasters, to post about the same issue on the same day."

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September 5, 2008  7:19 AM

Rapping about CERN’s Large Hadron Collider? Not the end of the world as we know it.



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Need a breath of fresh air and humor heading into the weekend? Check out this hilarious video of the Large Hadron Rap on YouTube. Hat tip to Cosmos Magazine for the


August 20, 2008  6:58 PM

Video: MIT’s OpenCourseWare — Introduction to Algorithms (Lesson 1 and 2)



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Thanks to a friendly Creative Commons license, these introductory lectures could be uploaded to Google Video by Peteris Krumins from the host on MIT’s...

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August 1, 2008  10:29 AM

Video: Jimmy Wales on Google’s Knol



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Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia, talked to WNYC's Brian Lehrer about Google Knol, a new competitor...


June 10, 2008  11:26 AM

What is a social spreadsheet? Dan Bricklin and SocialText combine wikis with workspaces at Enterprise 2.0.



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Ross Mayfield, founder of SocialText, a maker of enterprise wiki software, announced the launch of a new social spreadsheet at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference. In his presentation to a packed hall of technology...


May 22, 2008  2:14 PM

What is the history of the ARPANET? A 1972 documentary tells the story of the birth of the Internet



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"The Heralds of Resource Shaping" on Google Video tells the story of the origins of the Internet. At thirty minutes, this documentary is a bit longer than the average online video (or attention span) but well worth the time...


May 19, 2008  10:29 AM

What is the future of the Internet?



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Do you think much about the future of the Internet? Last week, the academics and technologists...


April 24, 2008  8:33 AM

Video: Sergey Brin speaks about search, Google, and life at UC Berkeley



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Google's distributed search model is at the foundation of the Internet giant's current dominance in search. In the video below, one of Google's founders, Sergey Brin, speaks at length about his company. You'll need to...


April 23, 2008  9:27 AM

Better Education Through Open Source Robots



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Heather Johnson is guest blogging at WhatIs.com this week. Heather is a freelance writer, as well as a monthly contributor for OEDb, a site that helps students...


April 23, 2008  8:46 AM

Video: Exploring presence technology with tele-immersive dance in cyberspace



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Often the title of a video alone raises an eyebrow. Today's video selection certainly does -- it's a presentation from two tele-immersion labs, one at UC Berkeley's Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) and the...