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I have been playing with a website called IDesktop.tv, which enhances Youtube by allowing viewers to download videos in a variety of formats including mp4 for Ipods and 3GP for cellphones.
Vixy.net offers a similar conversion service, but you need to know the web address of the video before you can download it. Miro is [...]

Recently, I have been thinking about the history of Internet bookmarking and its future possibilities. In particular, I have been anticipating a situation where bookmarking is used as a tool to check the reliability of websites, building on the process I summarised in yesterday’s post. Here is my overview of bookmarking.
Bookmarking 1.0 (1990s to 2004)
Bookmarking [...]

I once overheard a semi famous drum and bass DJ called Sev talk about keeping it real when he was giving an interview to a lifestyle magazine at a Bristol cafe sometime in the spring of 2003. The phrase made me snigger, because it struck me that asserting your authenticity so emphatically was a clear [...]

NYT: In Defense of the Kindle
There has been a lot of criticism that the Kindle e-book reader is expensive and has limited functionality, but this article jumps to its defence by saying it is a version 1 product where early adopters can buy reasonably priced books without the need to
(tags: technology e-books)

Amazon has launched a new E-book reader called Kindle, which is getting a great deal of criticism for being too limited and too expensive. The Kindle is a $400 device that is the size of a small handbook, weighing just 300 grammes, but it can be used to store and read upto 200 e-books that [...]

The new Asus Eeepc would be a very unremarkable miniature subnotebook, except it is so cheaply priced and is getting all sorts of hype at the moment as you can see from Will Harris’s video review on Channelflip. It has gone on sale in the UK for 220 GBP and I have heard that you [...]

nl workshop workbook.pdf (application/pdf Object)
Fantastic weorkbook to develop information literacy for students and teachers
(tags: information literacy)

remote sensing: Definition and Much More from Answers.com
BAckground to the science of remote sensing taken from Wikipedia entry.
(tags: “ITGS-Science”

We all have our own favourite ways of keeping in touch with loved ones who live in different countries. Until fairly recently, that choice would have been limited to letters, postcards and the odd phonecall. Now, it is almost as easy to keep in touch with people from China as it would be if you [...]

BBC News Online | Technology | End of the innocence for Mac fans
Bill Thomspon of BBC’s Dgital Planet reflects on the need to teach students Internet and media literacy rather than just skills based software training.
(tags: education technology ICT “ITGS-Education”)