I’ve just watched an excellent segment on the ABC’s The Good Game about how the Australian Film, Television and Radio School is using Second Life to create film (or Machinima).
I believe the whole episode will be available for download sometime in the next couple of days. Presently the machinima segment is available online for download.
Credit […]
The US Intelligence Community recently released a study comparing RSS and Atom. The findings are interesting (if somewhat predictable):
If you must use RSS, then we recommend RSS 0.91 or RSS 2.0, preferably the latter.
However, for all of the reasons presented in this paper, we recommend a gradual transition to Atom 1.0 for the Intelligence Community […]
Miles wrote recently about his use of webified desktop applications. For those people interested in this area it would pay to checkout Microsoft Max. Max is a combination of a photo management/sharing program and a newsreader.
While it is very much still in beta, it does show how the next generation of desktop applications will look. […]
Shel Israel (co-author of “Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers“) recently spent some time at Sun Microsystems talking about how Sun was doing in the social sites/participation age content space. He said he thinks Sun “may be the ‘blogging-est company in the world’ based on the large percentage of […]
The Global Text Project:
The project will create open content electronic textbooks that will be freely available from a Web site. Distribution will also be possible via paper, CD, or DVD. Our goal initially is to focus on content development and Web distribution, and we will work with relevant authorities to facilitate dissemination by other means […]
Jen recently blogged about AttentionTrust and made the same mistake that most people make when they decide that it must be a good idea.
While I agree that some of their goals are excellent, I have to take issue with some of the things they are saying.
Let’s look at the AttentionTrust principles and see where I […]
When starting a new blog it’s important to see where your readers are coming from and how many there are.
In the Education.au blogging system I’ve installed three statistics plugins. These can be enabled by going to the Plugins->Plugins page and activating the Google Analytics, Feedburner Feed Replacement and PMetrics plugins.
Those plugins enable statistics collection by […]
