David Talbot, Technology Review

"Open video" could beget the next great wave in Web innovation--if it gets off the ground.

In 2005, Michael Dale and Abram Stern, a pair of grad students in digital media arts at the University of California, Santa Cruz, decided it would be fun to make video remixes of speeches in the U.S. Congress. Their goals were artistic; Stern had notions, for example, of editing a Senate floor speech to remove everything but the pronouns. They would be following, loosely,… Continue

Introduction
This webinar, jointly sponsored by Glocal Vantage Inc., presented a summary Marshall McLuhan's work and applied it to understanding the past, present and future. It covered - the medium is the message, hot and cool media, our change from pre-literate to literate to post literate, characteristics of the post literate society, and the four laws of technology. It will close with a discussion of the wave of the future.

The benefits of understanding this approach are that you:

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Introduction
It’s a relatively recent phenomena that an individual can create a video and have it “go viral” in a short time and be seen by hundreds of thousands of people (if not millions). “Go viral” is an analogy to the spread of a disease like human flu. Some of these have been about the future. New technology is making the production of potentially high impact videos possible for anyone. And, the web 2.0 technologies, especially social networks and blogs, can cascade and link the vid… Continue

Google wave is an open sourced, shared, hosted service that marries the features of e-mail, instant messaging, Google Docs and Wikis for collaboration and multi user, simultaneous or asynchronous content creation, editing and comments. it easily interfaces with social networking site, blogs wikis, microblogs and many other social media tools. Google wave handles text, photos, graphics and videos. In the future, it will handle presentations and spreadsheets. It has improved spellcheck and languag… Continue

From the Futurist Update

Since the global recession has forced many employers to cut costs—
including labor costs—one area may need a resurgence of investment:
training.

U.S. employers continue to struggle with finding new hires who have not
just the basic skills, but also higher-level critical thinking and
creativity skills, according to a new report from The Conference Board.
Since the education system is not supplying young workers with these
skills, companies may have to devote more of the… Continue