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The free Skype call recorder

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:09:46 GMT

clipped by: JICWyllie

Clip Source: www.callgraph.in

Call Graph is a free call recording application for Skype. With Call Graph you can

Record Skype calls in a mp3 file, automatically
Manage records, view timeline of your records
Search, order, filter your call records
Record Skype to Skype, SkypeIn, SkypeOut, Conference calls
Record podcasts, lessons, interviews, meetings etc.

The Secrets of Storytelling: Why We Love a Good Yarn

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:50:22 GMT

clipped by: JICWyllie

Clip Source: www.sciam.com

the best stories—those retold through generations and translated into other languages—do more than simply present a believable picture. These tales captivate their audience, whose emotions can be inextricably tied to those of the story’s characters. Such immersion is a state psychologists call “narrative transport.”

Clip Source: www.sciam.com

people who perform better on tests of empathy, or the capacity to perceive another person’s emotions, become more easily transported regardless of the story.

Empathy is part of the larger ability humans have to put themselves in another person’s shoes: we can attribute mental states—awareness, intent—to another entity. Theory of mind, as this trait is known, is crucial to social interaction and communal living—and to understanding stories.

promotes social cohesion among groups and serves as a valuable method to pass on knowledge to future generations

stories have an important effect on individuals as well—the imaginary world may serve as a proving ground for vital social skills

Tags: culture, stories, i-research

Schools Look to Save Money With Four-Day Week

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:25:10 GMT

clipped by: JICWyllie

Clip Source: www.voanews.com

American schools are looking for ways to save money on bus transportation because of high fuel prices. More children may have to walk, ride their bikes or find other ways to get to school.

But, as another effect of the high prices, they may not have to go to school as often.

Some schools, especially in rural areas, are changing to a four-day week. That means longer days instead of the traditional Monday through Friday schedule.

But he sees other benefits, too. Students get more instructional time. And activities that used to interfere with classes are now held on non-school days.

He says that in the future, the growth of online classes could make it possible to require even fewer days in school. High fuel prices are driving college students to take more online classes. And in some states, high school students can take them, too.

Tags: energy, oil, i-price, i-increase, i-consequences, i-behaviour change

Biomimicry - "Innovation Inspired By Nature"

Tue, 27 May 2008 13:59:53 GMT

clipped by: JICWyllie

Clip Source: peakenergy.blogspot.com

Biomimicry (from bios, meaning life, and mimesis, meaning to imitate) is a relatively new science that studies the designs nature has evolved through millions of years of trial and error and then imitates these to solve problems in a sustainable way.

The biomimicry community has developed the following design principles:

• Waste = Food
• Self-assemble, from the ground up
• Evolve solutions, don't plan them
• Relentlessly adjust to the here & now
• Cooperate and compete, not just one or the other
• Diversify to fill every niche
• Gather energy and materials efficiently
• Optimize the system rather than maximizing components
• The whole is greater than the sum of its parts -- design for swarm
• Use minimal energy and materials
• "Don't foul your nest"
• Organize fractally

• Chemical reactions should be in water at normal temperature and pressure

"Those who are inspired by a model other than Nature, a mistress above all masters, are laboring in vain." - Leonardo Da Vinci

10 signs you're in a tech bubble Welcome back to 1998

Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:55:49 GMT

clipped by: JICWyllie
clipper's remarks: At least, Clipmarks has cracked the lack of people "bothering to contribute content".

Clip Source: www.sandersresearch.com

here's The Register's 10 tell-tale signs of a tech bubble

Companies launch frivolous products

Loads of money

Unsavory trading practices

Preaching to the converted

Bogus numbers

We're still trying to figure it out

Community land grab

If something's worth building once, it's worth building again and again

Seven years back, online trading communities and emarkets mushroomed but ultimately fizzled through lack of participation. Today search, social networks, and maps are mushrooming. One thing remains constant — failure to participate: those bothering to contribute content are vastly outnumbered by those searching, viewing, and downloading material.

From Wall St to Silicon Valley, experienced finanical types and entrepreneurs are privately conceding the obvious: we're in a tech bubble.

Just three of the past 15 bull markets have lasted longer than five years - we're currently at year 4.5. Others are not quite sure where we are, or are in plain denial.

Feel good branding and advertising

Tags: economy, technology, web 2.0, i-forecast, i-risks, i-investment

Digital Media and Learning

Thu, 17 May 2007 21:06:21 GMT

clipped by: duvelic

Clip Source: www.digitallearning.macfound.org

Digital Media and Learning

The MacArthur Foundation launched its five-year, $50 million digital media and learning initiative in 2006 to help determine how digital technologies are changing the way young people learn, play, socialize, and participate in civic life. Answers are critical to developing educational and other social institutions that can meet the needs of this and future generations. The initiative is both marshaling what is already known about the field and seeding innovation for continued growth.

On this website you can find:

• information about ongoing projects and emerging research;
• an innovative “knowledge network” of leading experts in the field;
• testimonies from young people about how digital technologies are
• changing their lives; and
• a link to the Spotlight blog, where visitors can engage with
• initiative grantees about their work.

Tags: digital, media, learning, initiative

Being the Featured Clipmarks Clipper

Fri, 11 May 2007 15:55:51 GMT

clipped by: JICWyllie
clipper's remarks: Helping your fellow clippers to be more knowledgeable about what is important is an excellent motivation for clipping. With a bit of cooperative organisation groups of clippers will be able to provide each other and other groups with professional monitoring services.

Clip Source: trendmonitor2.wordpress.com

TM2 - How was your experience being the Featured Clipper?

RGS - Today, I was pleasantly surprised to be informed that I was the “featured clipper” on Clipmarks. I had already noted items that I wanted to clip, but might not have got around to doing it. Being Featured Clipper encouraged me that GET CLIPPING, and I did. I clipped stuff from BBC radio on the subjects of Hurricane Katrina (under disaster management), UK identity cards, the £200 a day fee for all trucks in Greater London. I also clipped this year’s Reith Lectures on how popular pressure can improve the lives of the world’s poorest and save the environment too because I feel that my fellow clippers should be aware of such matters.

I felt more part of the Clipmarks community. I also felt that I wanted to tell others outside Clickmarks that I was the featured Clipper. And I like the feeling that I am helping my Followers stay on top of key information flows.

Tags: i-opportunity, social network movement, clipmarks

Social lending gains net interest

Mon, 07 May 2007 20:48:02 GMT

clipped by: RobertsClips

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

concept is called social lending and the idea is to introduce people who need money to people who want to lend some - cutting out the middlemen like banks and mortgage companies.

Zopa is a pioneer in this space. For the past two years it has allowed members to borrow and lend on their own terms.

To minimize risk Zopa will spread your loan among a few borrowers. So if are lending £500 ($993) then your money will automatically go to 50 different people.

The social lending site Kiva allows lenders to give to a specific entrepreneur in a poor or developing world country.

Throughout the period of the loan - usually six to 12 months - sponsors receive e-mail updates about how borrowers are getting on as they repay their loan.

FXA World is the world's first peer-to-peer currency exchange where you can trade your foreign currency at a rate that you have set or at the rate the banks trade among themselves.

Tags: money, social lending

Free online collaborative mind mapping

Mon, 07 May 2007 20:22:38 GMT

clipped by: traviscrocker

Clip Source: www.mindmeister.com

MindMeister supports all the standard features of a classic mind mapping tool - only online, and with as many simultaneous users as you like!
Curious? Try the LIVE DEMO below.

Tags: tools, app

The Search for Better Search - context and relevance

Wed, 02 May 2007 14:15:28 GMT

clipped by: RobertsClips

Clip Source: www.profy.com

Hakia recently initiated "The Search for Better Search" initiative via a focused poll taken from some of Web 2.0's best technical blogs. The results reveal an overwhelming and compelling need for a better search capability.

For those of you just arriving from another galaxy, hakia is a new search entity based on the vision that search is about meaning derived from context and relevance. To a logical person of a certain type nothing could be simpler really, but the methodology and technology are of course rather much more complicated.

Tags: search, context, relevance

Are Designers The Enemy Of Design?

Wed, 02 May 2007 07:14:46 GMT

clipped by: hjharris

Clip Source: www.businessweek.com

We all live life in beta now.

Are Designers The Enemy of Design?

Designers are saying that Design is everywhere, done by everyone. So Design is debased, eroded, insulted. The subtext, of course, is that Real design can only be done by great star designers.

Design Democracy is the wave of the future.

We are all designing more of our lives.

So Lesson One here is that the process of design, the management of the design process, is changing radically.

But what it doesn’t do is prioritize cradle-to-cradle design. It doesn’t design a long-cycle product that you can open and upgrade over time. It doesn’t design a process that encourages the reuse materials again and again. It doesn’t demand sustainability.

The broad new paradigm for design—the paradigm you will all work within for the rest of your lives—is sustainability.

top CEOs who embrace design don’t want to call it that. They want to call it “Innovation.”

Innovation, design, eco-imagination,

Tags: csd

Europe backs Enterprise 2.0

Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:31:02 GMT

clipped by: JICWyllie

Clip Source: clipmarks.com

Clip Source: www.infospaces.it

Trampoline is the first European “Enterprise 2.0” software developer to receive major investor backing.

Trampoline brings a fresh approach to information management with technology that harnesses social behaviour in the enterprise. The deal provides further evidence that a new generation of enterprise software, dubbed “Enterprise 2.0”, is gaining traction with established organisations

The company’s main application is called SONAR (Social Networks And Relevance), an appliance that plugs into the corporate network and connects to existing systems such as email servers, contact databases and document archives and analyzes data in the systems to build a map of social networks, information flows, expertise and individuals’ interests throughout the enterprise

Tags: enterprise 2.0, web 2.0, i - financing