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Latest read: Lexus and the Olive Tree

Post author By Don Kasprzak
Post date September 21, 2006
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Tom Friedman’s book The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization has great chapters including The Electronic Herd as one that fits right into how web2.0 entrepreneurs have been able to move social networks into powerful forces.

Although Lexus and the Olive Tree’s immediate focus was finance, its easy to see how MySpace impacts social networks.

The rapid change in today’s world has made a large leap within the last three years.

The strength of the herd continues to have more impact with even the youngest of the internet generation like…say…Digg.

Tags electronic herd, folksonomy, Globalization, social networking, tom friedman

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at&t: please stop killing trees!

Post author By Don Kasprzak
Post date September 4, 2006
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I have not opened a phone book in almost five years…yet AT&T thinks the internet does not exist. So they dropped off these two trees…or shall I say “books” at my door.

I certainly did not ask for them. Sure the postal carrier feels the same way.
Its best save trees and make phone books optional. Now I have to drop them in my recycle box on garbage day.
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TV ratings continue slipping

Post author By Don Kasprzak
Post date July 30, 2006
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Television viewership continues to shrink. The week of July 4th was the least-watched week in recorded history.

Although you may look at the holiday and traditional weather and events, its clear TV is losing is hold on popular culture…summer reruns ring a bell? Only 20.8 million viewers were tuned in to primetime television at any given moment. The previous low: 21.5 million viewers set last July. But even traditional high ranking shows have fallen to thier lowest ratings, including the Academy Awards. But our media attention-span society is looking at YouTube, video games, iPods and of course the internet.

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Internet2 at EAA

Post author By Don Kasprzak
Post date July 28, 2006

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This is a single shot of a joint flyover at Wednesday’s EAA airshow in OshKosh Wisconsin.

This morning was my first EAA experience. On behalf of WiscNet’s Internet2 K20 Working Group I co-presented at EAA’s Teacher Day. Our session “Internet2: connecting classrooms” focused on the how new internet2 applications are moving out of the research phase. The new internet2 solutions are in the following content themes:

Multimedia libraries
Remote scientific instruments
Experiences and Expertise
Creating New Knowledge & Opportunities
International Learning Communities

Examples of the new multimedia libraries include the National Science Digital Library, the eSkeletons Project, The WGBH Teacher’s Domain and the Research Channel.

Remote instrumentation permits K12 educators to actually control the Mauna Kea Observatory in Hawaii. Experiences and Expertise have been hilighted by Project Jason the Manhattan School of Music and the Lewis and Clark Project. Part of Creating new Knowledge & Opportunities is the excellent Neptune program in Washington. The International Learning Communities has been hilighted by the MegaConference Jr. with began in 2004 for students in elementary and secondary schools the ability to communicate with schools around the globe.

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