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NZ Passes Copyright Infringement Bill

The copyright symbol is not protected by copyright. The New Zealand Parliament passed new copyright infringement legislation today. The government press release describes the law, which takes effect on...

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The end of the Typewriter

Royal Typewriter 5 (Lars Odemark cc-by-nc-nd) The Indian Business Standard reports that the last remaining manufacturer of typewriters in the world, Godrej, stopped production in 2009 and has only 500...

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Canadian Election and eMedia

Google Canada's logo on election day Canadians are voting in a national election today (Monday, 2 May in Canada). Although the polls close at 7:00PM in Newfoundland and Labrador, the public will have...

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Here Come the Clouds

Photo by Bruno Monginoux (cc-by-nc-nd) In a recent post on the O’Reilly Radar blog, Alasdair Allan compares the different cloud computing strategies of Google, Amazon, and Apple. Amazon is focussed on...

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Should iPads be encouraged in schools?

Student iPad (Brad Flickinger cc-by) TVNZ reports that “from next year, all year nine students at Orewa College must have their own notebook or laptop, and the school is strongly recommending it be a...

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The Revolution Will Be Streamed

“Global Revolution” Live video stream, New York, NY, 1 Oct. 2011 fuuji: Put the anonymous video bac sub451: watching clips from the bridge…the white shirt guys are pretty uptight…wonder how they deal...

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Leave Faceboogle! Join the Social Swarm!

"Online Communities 2" CC-BY-NC I received the following email this morning. I thought it was worth passing on as is. I’ll post related comments and links soon. Read the comments to get an idea of who...

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EDGEX2012 Conference: Disruptive Educational Research, New Delhi March 12-14...

Check out the #EDGEX2012 Conference. The speakers include Jay Cross, George Siemens, Stephen Downes, Clark Quinn, Dave Cormier, Alec Couros, Grainne Conole, Alicia Sanchez, Martin Weller, Les Foltos,...

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The “Kony 2012 Invisible Children” Internet phenomenon

"Kony 2012 director, Jason Russell, with Jacob (click to view video in YouTube) Over the past few days, a new hashtag, #Kony2012, started showing up with increasing frequency in my Twitter stream. A...

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National’s Budget Blunder – Increasing the quality of education by...

“Technology News” Balmacewen Intermediate School Newsletter No 3 May 2012 p. 5 In their eagerness to cut costs in their recent budget, regardless of the effects, the governing National Party made a...

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