Today begins Internet2′s Spring Member meeting. The hot topic of conversation? Broadband stimulus funding.
April 29, 2009
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April 17, 2009
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Grandma’s iPhone
Did my 95 year old Grandmother think about this when I showed her my iPhone? Could she have imagined such a device as a child? Wonder what my little son will write about the future… Tags: smartphone, IPv6, network, advanced … Continue reading
March 10, 2009
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Brainstorm 10.0
Attended Brainstorm 10.0 today and had a chance to hear PC industry pundit John C. Dvorak. Brainstorm had a great number of technology sessions for K12 Technology Directors. The most surprising session was “HD video over IP for Distance Learning” … Continue reading
March 7, 2009
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My latest read – Hot Property
Its all in the timing. The global economic crisis has placed my latest read Hot Property: The Stealing of Ideas in an Age of Globalization into a pretty unique light. Regardless of the delay in the US economy the impact … Continue reading
March 7, 2009
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YouTube in America and China
This week my colleague ijohnpederson blogged about YouTube‘s January analytical results. For the first time over 100 million internet users in the U.S. watched 6.3 Billion videos. In the globalized world today that number is not very big. Consider how … Continue reading
February 13, 2009
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K12 Technology Plan: CIPA
K12 Teachers and Administrators have questions about some of the finer points regarding CIPA and their school district. It appears there is a misunderstanding: not all CIPA products are created equal and more importantly your District may actually have the … Continue reading
January 18, 2009
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My latest read – Hot, Flat and Crowded
Over the long holiday I finally finished Tom Friedman’s book Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution–and How It Can Renew America. The book is a mixed blessing. Friedman has written one of the best books to … Continue reading
December 29, 2008
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One Laptop Per Child: John Lennon
Get a laptop and give one to a child in a developing nation [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz9R82vWw08[/youtube]
December 22, 2008
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Net outage in Egypt impacts Time Warner
As you may have learned there was an enormous under sea cable cut in Egypt that severed internet data communications. The ripples of this outage spread across the Middle East, Europe and even affected the network performances of Time Warner … Continue reading
December 22, 2008
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OLPC Peru makes a difference
Cannot help but wonder what American school children (Grades K-6) could accomplish with One Laptop per Child XO Laptop. Dare I say the ‘competition’ for XOs in America this holiday season are gaming systems? Actually the Give a Laptop, Get … Continue reading