Video: Exploring presence technology with tele-immersive dance in cyberspace
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...
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Better Education Through Open Source Robots
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 select among accredited online schools....
View ArticleVideo: Sergey Brin speaks about search, Google, and life at UC Berkeley
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...
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What is the future of the Internet?
Do you think much about the future of the Internet? Last week, the academics and technologists who consider the matter professionally gathered at the Berkman Center at Harvard Law School in Cambridge,...
View ArticleWhat is the history of the ARPANET? A 1972 documentary tells the story of the...
“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)...
View ArticleWhat is a social spreadsheet? Dan Bricklin and SocialText combine wikis with...
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...
View ArticleVideo: Jimmy Wales on Google’s Knol
Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia, talked to WNYC’s Brian Lehrer about Google Knol, a new competitor to the world’s largest online encyclopedia. [kml_flashembed...
View ArticleVideo: MIT’s OpenCourseWare — Introduction to Algorithms (Lesson 1 and 2)
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 OpenCourseWare website. In his post about them on...
View ArticleRapping about CERN’s Large Hadron Collider? Not the end of the world as we...
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 discovery. This leads up to the...
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What is Blog Action Day? A chance to help fight global poverty.
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.” In 2007,...
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