Mixed Ink...

Mixed ink is a tool that takes the idea of collaborative writing to the next level.  I have not had an opportunity to work on a collective document using this tool yet... however the concepts are very impressive.  This is like Google documents with tools that allow you to easilly mix and match content and vote on the "best" version of a document.  Very impressive.

MixedInk Demo from MixedInk on Vimeo.

Danah Boyd - How do we create comfort in new spaces?

Danah Boyd talks about how we attempt to make sense out of our spaces in the new world of social networking.  This video made me think about how significant this change is and how we attempt to make the world reflect or familiar world.  We do this by surrounding ourselves with friends, people that we know, this is familiar.

China innovating forward

MIT just published an artilce about China's efforts to take leadership in clean coal technology. The first paragraph of the article states that,

"China looks set to overtake the United States in the application of
technologies to clean up coal-fired power generation, if several proposed
projects come to fruition. GreenGen--a joint venture established by Chinese
utilities--has broken ground on China's first integrated gasification
combined cycle (IGCC) plant and signed agreements to build two more."

It will be interesting to watch how the new administration and the US responds.

Pitch Poker - Life...

Here is an interesting video that looks at life as a game, relating it to poker.  It is a bit long, but if you stick with it... they talk about innovation and creativity and how technology enables us all to work in this world. 

Google and voice.

Google and voice. The Technology review posted a story about Google's ambitious efforts to work with voice and search. Green is quoted as saying, "if you own an iPhone, you can now be part of one of the most ambitious speech-recognition experiments ever launched."

This and other efforts like it will change how we interface with devices.

RDF the Future of Information Literacy & Learning

When we talk about information literacy we can't help but frame it through our current limited viewpoint.  Information components such as Resourcs Description Frameworks (RDF) are unfamiliar to most of us and therefore have not been part of the information literacy conversation.  RDF is a language for representing information on the Internet allowing data sources to more easilly be combined and mashed up to create new understanding and visualizaitons.  The following video provides an example of how RDF can be utilized to combine information to increase understanding.

Voice Thread