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100 Tools for Learning (by popularity)

Tue, 31 Jul 2007 19:06:41 GMT

clipped by: frogtuxedo
clipper's remarks: "This list is being compiled from the Top 10 Favourite Tools lists of a growing number of contributions from e-learning professionals."

Clip Source: www.c4lpt.co.uk

Firefox

del.icio.us

Skype

Google Reader

Gmail

Google Search

Blogger

WordPress

Microsoft PowerPoint

Bloglines

Google Docs & Spreadsheets

iGoogle

Audacity

Captivate

Microsoft Word

Dreamweaver

Facebook

flickr

Google Calendar

Wikispaces

Articulate

Elgg/Eduspaces

MindManager

Moodle

Netvibes

Ning

Flash

Google Maps

Microsoft Outlook

Snagit

Thunderbird

YouTube

Books/Paper/Sketchbook

Microsoft Excel

Explode

FreeMind

Google Desktop/Sidebar/
Gadgets

Google Talk

IE7

iTunes

MediaWiki

OpenOffice

PB Wiki

Slideshare

TypePad

Zoho

Adium

diigo

Edublogs

Google Alerts

Google Scholar

Parallels

Photoshop

Scribd

Web Developer Toolbar

MSN/ Windows Messenger

Wikipedia

Yahoo Mail

Yugma

Zotero

Adobe Reader

Apple Mail

Blogmusik

CoComment

Drupal / DrupalEd

eXe

FeedBlitz

Firebug

Fireworks

Flock

GIMP

Gliffy

Google Earth

Google Groups

Google Page Creator

HTML-Kit

Jaiku

Jotspot

Last.fm

Meebo

MindMeister

Mozy

MyBlogLog

NetNewsWire

Notepad++

OmniGraffle

Paint Shop Pro

Pidgin

QuickBooks

Quicksilver

TeacherTube

Tiddlywiki

twitter

Voicethread

Yahoo Groups

Tags: internet, tools, lists, web2.0, elearning

Clipmarks included in PC Mag's Top 10 Future Classic Web Sites

Sat, 14 Oct 2006 20:17:18 GMT

clipped by: ericw
clipper's remarks: Clipmarks makes the list of PC Magazine's Top 10 Future Classic Web sites!

Clip Source: www.pcmag.com

Top 10 Future Classic Web Sites		Start Slide Show
Clipmarks	Computer History Museum	del.icio.us	digg
Facebook	The Huffington Post	LiveJournal	MySpace
Pandora Internet Radio	YouTube

Clip Source: www.pcmag.com

Clipmarks combines elements of del.icio.us and digg, letting users clip their favorite portions of Web pages, share them with the community, and vote on the best. Even if you’re not submitting, though, browsing through the most popular clips is a good way to stay informed about the most recent happenings on the Internet.

Tags: pcmag, clipmarks, web, web2.0, top 10, web site, internet, technology

50+ Sites for Book Lovers

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 15:44:05 GMT

clipped by: frogtuxedo

Clip Source: mashable.com

Book Reviews

Whatshouldireadnext.com

Book Communities

Facebook.com Favoritebooks

Publishing

Book Search & Exchange

Whatshoulditreadnext.com

Others

Tags: books, reading, literature

War on Blogs?

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 01:44:43 GMT

clipped by: debbyski
clipper's remarks: Hmm. . . could this have something to do with the user comments on the ill-fated Tom DeLay Blog?

Clip Source: thinkprogress.org

John McCain’s War On Blogs

John McCain has made clear that he doesn’t like the blogosphere.

Now he has introduced legislation that would treat blogs like Internet service providers and hold them responsible for all activity in the comments sections and user profiles. Some highlights of the legislation:

– Commercial websites and personal blogs “would be required to report illegal images or videos posted by their users or pay fines of up to $300,000.”

– Internet service providers (ISPs) are already required to issue such reports, but under McCain’s legislation, bloggers with comment sections may face “even stiffer penalties” than ISPs.

— Social networking sites will be forced to take “effective measures” — such as deleting user profiles — to remove any website that is “associated” with a sex offender. Sites may include not only Facebook and MySpace, but also Amazon.com, which permits author profiles and personal lists, and blogs like DailyKos, which allows users to sign up for personal diaries.

Kevin Bankston of the Electronic Frontier Foundation notes that this proposal may be based more “on fear or political considerations rather than on the facts.” When he introduced his legislation to the Senate, McCain offered no evidence that children are being victimized by people who post comments on blogs.

McCain’s legislation could deal a serious blow to the blogosphere. Lacking resources to police their sites, many individual blogs may have to shut down open discussion.

(HT:The Liberty Papers)

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Tags: politics, blogs, idiot, idea

WE ARE ALL WRITERS NOW

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:35:32 GMT

clipped by: wildcat
clipper's remarks: "True, much of what is written online is quotidian, informational, ephemeral. But writing has always been so: traditional newspapers line bird-cages a day later; lab reports describe methodology in tedious detail; the founding fathers wrote what they ate for lunch. And the quality of many blogs is high, indistinguishable in eloquence and intellect from many traditionally published works."

an important read

Clip Source: www.moreintelligentlife.com

Blogs, Twitter, Facebook: these outlets are supposedly cheapening language and tarnishing our time. But the fact is we are all reading and writing much more than we used to, writes Anne Trubek ...

Special to MORE INTELLIGENT LIFE

The chattering classes have become silent, tapping their views on increasingly smaller devices. And tapping they are: the screeds are everywhere, decrying the decline of smart writing, intelligent thought and proper grammar. Critics bemoan blogging as the province of the amateurism. Journalists rue the loose ethics and shoddy fact-checking of citizen journalists. Many save their most profound scorn for the newest forms of social media. Facebook and Twitter are heaped with derision for being insipid, time-sucking, sad testaments to our literary degradation. This view is often summed up with a disdainful question: “Do we really care about what you ate for lunch?”

Tags: life online, writing

Top 10 web sites for students

Fri, 04 Aug 2006 00:50:36 GMT

clipped by: adamc

Clip Source: reviews.cnet.com

Best socializing: Facebook

Best photo sharing: Flickr

Best music service: Audio Lunchbox

Best for a laugh: CollegeHumor

Best money management: FinAid

Best gaming: AddictingGames

Best online apps: Google

Best sports: CSTV.com

Best for vice: PokerStars

Best for virtue: Idealist.org

Tags: top ten, students, web, internet, college, facebook

"Hey Facebook, breast feeding is not obscene".

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 10:31:05 GMT

clipped by: balthazarus
clipper's remarks: though i do not understand why woman would like to publish photos of them breastfeeding, i most certainly do not agree a dumb to the letter policy that facebook is following. The web should stay open for different ways of expression even if some does not fully fall under ones description of tastefulness

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Mums furious as Facebook removes breastfeeding photos

Facebook has become the target of an 80,000-plus protest by irate mothers after banning breastfeeding photographs from online profiles.

Facebook's policy, which bans any breastfeeding images uploaded that show nipples, has led an online profile by protestors - called "lactivists" in some circles - called "Hey Facebook, breast feeding is not obscene".

The online petition, which accuses Facebook of instituting the policy to "appease the closed-minded", has attracted almost 82,000 supporters.

The actions of the group came to a head over the weekend when the protesters organised a virtual "nurse-in" on the social networking website where for a day angry supporters posted a profile picture of an image of a mother breastfeeding and changed their Facebook status to say "Hey Facebook, breastfeeding is not obscene!".

"The photos we act upon are almost exclusively brought to our attention by other users who complain."

Clip Source: images.google.co.il

Tags: protest, facebook, freedom, photo

Brave New World of Digital Intimacy

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 12:15:43 GMT

clipped by: wildcat
clipper's remarks: It is easy to become unsettled by privacy-eroding aspects of awareness tools. But there is another — quite different — result of all this incessant updating: a culture of people who know much more about themselves. Many of the avid Twitterers, Flickrers and Facebook users I interviewed described an unexpected side-effect of constant self-disclosure. The act of stopping several times a day to observe what you’re feeling or thinking can become, after weeks and weeks, a sort of philosophical act. It’s like the Greek dictum to “know thyself,” or the therapeutic concept of mindfulness. (Indeed, the question that floats eternally at the top of Twitter’s Web site — “What are you doing?” — can come to seem existentially freighted. What are you doing?) Having an audience can make the self-reflection even more acute, since, as my interviewees noted, they’re trying to describe their activities in a way that is not only accurate but also interesting to others: the status update as a literary form.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

On Sept. 5, 2006, Mark Zuckerberg changed the way that Facebook worked, and in the process he inspired a revolt.

Pundits predicted that News Feed would kill Facebook, but the opposite happened. It catalyzed a massive boom in the site’s growth. A few weeks after the News Feed imbroglio, Zuckerberg opened the site to the general public (previously, only students could join), and it grew quickly; today, it has 100 million users

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

In essence, Facebook users didn’t think they wanted constant, up-to-the-minute updates on what other people are doing. Yet when they experienced this sort of omnipresent knowledge, they found it intriguing and addictive. Why?

Social scientists have a name for this sort of incessant online contact. They call it “ambient awareness.” It is, they say, very much like being physically near someone and picking up on his mood through the little things he does — body language, sighs, stray comments — out of the corner of your eye.

Tags: brave new world, digital intimacy

Reasons to like ClipCast according to ouyangwulong...

Sat, 15 Dec 2007 04:24:33 GMT

clipped by: egoldstein
clipper's remarks: I've done a lot of writing about my perspective on ClipCast, but i just read some really insightful comments by ouyangwulong that said it better than i have been able to. Wanted to share them with everyone by clipping them.

Thank you ouyangwulong. Not just for having such a positive perspective on it, but for truly tapping into and expressing the essence of what it's all about. It was truly a great feeling to read your comments.

By the way, i'm eric goldstein on facebook. Would love to see the "other side" of your clips...friend me if you like

Clip Source: clipmarks.com

Here's why I like clipcast: it broadens the clipmarks community. I love my clip-friends, but I have other friends out there in the real world. I also like talking with them about what I read, and although I have convinced some of them to come over to clipmarks, I have to say this makes clipmarks much more accessible and a useful tool for communication with people in the outside world.

Using the clipcast, we can spread this thoughtful medium to other sites on the web, and hopefully bring a little bit of civility as we go!

Another reason to put clipcasts on your websites is that it helps you manage your different internet identities.

Clip casts are the solution. I can create a separate clipcast for Facebook, one that reflects the part of my clips that fit with the social aspect of my persona that is established there.

Clipmarks brings out the best in the internet, but a few well organized clip casts will bring out the best in Clipmarks

Tags: clipcast, clipmarks

Facebook owns you.

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 09:51:58 GMT

clipped by: balthazarus
clipper's remarks: I think the said change of terms is a BIG issue. in the face of society of information and flow of availability, the act of facebook is unthinkable. They are providers (and earn much from that) and not owners of the information that flows through the system.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Facebook’s Users Ask Who Owns Information

Reacting to an online swell of suspicion about changes to Facebook’s terms of service, the company’s chief executive moved to reassure users on Monday that the users, not the Web site, “own and control their information.”

The online exchanges reflected the uneasy and evolving balance between sharing information and retaining control over that information

The subject arose when a consumer advocate’s blog shined an unflattering light onto the pages of legal language that many users accept without reading when they use a Web site.

This month, when Facebook updated its terms, it deleted a provision that said users could remove their content at any time, at which time the license would expire

Further, it added new language that said Facebook would retain users’ content and licenses after an account was terminated

had gone mostly unnoticed until Sunday

blog post by Consumerist

received more than 300,000 views

a few members are showing their uneasiness

Tags: facebook, information, social networking, ethics

Kindness Is Strength Or Weakness?

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:47:51 GMT

clipped by: debbyski

Clip Source: onemancan.ca

Flirt till your blue in the Facebook, Triumph over opponents, share iThink opinions, and many others. Many of these Apps involve assessing your ‘friends’ on Facebook. This week, a Weakness was noted for being Too Kind, and it caused a pause of humorous delightful wonder.

I was delighted and wondered why so many feel being Kind is a Weakness? Being kind requires vulnerability. Does that make ‘being vulnerable’ a weakness too?

Vulnerability is quite the opposite of weakness and requires tremendous strength and courage. I know. I’ve taken the journey. It isn’t easy to stay open that way with everyone, at least not in the beginning.

With perseverance and experience, the truth of vulnerability reveals something deeper about human capacity and capability, as well as where it’s source originates.

Remember, it is only cowards that hide behind their own fear. Fear drives the worst kind of behaviour in humanity. You are the light - Remove the fear.

The Death of E-Mail

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 15:11:14 GMT

clipped by: wildcat

Clip Source: slate.com

By 2002, everyone in my family had become an Internet convert. For the technophobic older generation, signing up for an e-mail account was a concession to us youngsters—if the kids don't call home, they thought, we'll just reach them through the computer. Everyone was especially eager to send messages to my niece, a kid who wasn't all that chatty on the phone but was almost always glued to her PC. But while the rest of us happily exchanged forwards and life updates, she almost never piped up. Eventually, I sussed out the truth: She was too busy sending IMs and text messages to bother with e-mail. That's when I realized that my agility with e-mail no longer marked me as a tech-savvy young adult. It made me a lame old fogey.

ose of us older than 25 can't imagine a life without e-mail. For the Facebook generation, it's hard to imagine a life of only e-mail, much less a life before it

Ten years later, e-mail is looking obsolete

Tags: internet, communication, email, im, facebook generation

Online communities open but still limit movement

Sat, 24 May 2008 08:56:27 GMT

clipped by: wildcat

Clip Source: physorg.com

(AP) -- Online social networking today is more about hanging out with friends behind gated communities than exploring the World Wide Web: Visit another site and you'll have to rebuild your profile from scratch. That's like having to get a new driver's license for every state you drive through.

Although the walls that keep users from taking their data wherever they go are starting to erode, how much three recently announced programs will help users move among the networks remains to be seen. Google Inc.'s attempt to break those fortifications was quickly blocked by Facebook.

The two leading online hangouts, News Corp.'s MySpace and Facebook, have promised to release tools in the coming weeks for Web sites to incorporate profile data, friends lists and other social functions. Google followed with its own program for bridging various networks.

Tags: social network, profile

Clipcasts & The Shape of the Net to Come

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:31:14 GMT

clipped by: ouyangwulong
clipper's remarks: It's amazing how the press out there, and most of the public, seems to have missed the big picture of what's going on here. They think this is about social networking and internet advertising. They are dead wrong.

We're all involved in a much bigger game now, and the pieces are the very building blocks of society's future.

I've clipped a few of the puzzle pieces together to make my point:

1. Cold War: Open v. Closed software

...leads to...

2. Show down between Cloud computing vs. PC software

...meanwhile...

3. Microsoft (PC OS) muscles in on Facebook (Internet Platform for Web Apps.)

...and on the other side...

4. Google (the world's leading search engine) muscles in on Firefox (the world's leading alternative web browser.)

...and then...

5.) Clipmarks, total wild card, leapfrogs over facebook into decentralized internet platforms with Clipcasts!

Something VERY VERY BIG is afoot!

Clip Source: www.iht.com

We're living in a cold war between open and closed systems

Clip Source: www.iht.com

Google gets ready to rumble with Microsoft

Google sees all of this happening on remote servers in faraway data centers, accessible over the Web by an array of wired and wireless devices — a setup known as cloud computing. Microsoft sees a Web future as well, but one whose center of gravity remains firmly tethered to its desktop PC software

Clip Source: www.iht.com

Microsoft buys into the new world of Facebook

Last week, Microsoft bought a tiny share of the Web site Facebook that gave it an overall value of some $15 billion.

Clip Source: www.iht.com

Google casts a shadow as Firefox plans for the future

Looming over all of this competitive planning is Google, the search engine giant that has been writing most of the royalty checks that finance Firefox. That contract expires next year and no one knows whether Google will continue as an ally - or possibly emerge as a challenger.

Clip Source: biz.yahoo.com

Clipmarks Launches Version 3.0: Evolving from Centralized Community to Distributed Platform for Sharing Clips

Tags: clipmarks, clipcast, google, microsoft, facebook, firefox, future, open source, cloud computing, tribute to ornette coleman

Clipmarks in the New York Times!

Sat, 17 Jun 2006 18:16:50 GMT

clipped by: Kore7
clipper's remarks: Congratulations, guys!

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Now, Free Ways to Do Desktop Work on the Web

Published: June 17, 2006

There is another way to do almost everything these programs can do — some would say you can actually do more — and you can do it free. A number of smart programmers have developed word processing, spreadsheet, calendar and other software that you operate while in a Web browser.

Clipmarks (www.clipmarks.com) adds an element of the social networking that you find on Facebook or MySpace.

Tags: clipmarks, new york times, nytimes, publicity