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A signficant development since the advent of the world wide web. May offer an opportunity to predict.

After a century of continuous publication, The Christian Science Monitor will abandon its weekday print edition and appear online only, its publisher announced Tuesday. The cost-cutting measure makes The Monitor the first national newspaper to largely give up on print.

Google sites is the best thing to hit the web since Google Apps. For a long time I'd been wanting a way to have a more private area, where others could still contribute without having to give them full administrative privileges to my domain - and Sites fits the bill and then some. I've used it to support many varied activities including private notes and conversations with clients, keeping track of my home schooled children's assignments and homework, letting them create their own web pages, collaborating with others on content for books and engineering designs, and even sharing pictures of our new dog with my family. It's easier and faster than a wiki, I can control who can see or contribute to a given site, and it's just downright fun to use!

I have only just became aware of this Google service. Apparently it is very easy to exchange data from one google application to another google application. Levels of control can be given. I saw this used extensively for curriculum co-ordination in a failing Bronx school in New York by an Australian who now is back in Australia and continuing the co-ordination. The world is surely getting flatter?

Seems like an interesting idea to allow a debate, and then others can interact one way or the other. Will the debates use stories as mentioned in 'A Whole New Mind?'

Our first debate focuses on the economy. Economists from the Cato Institute and the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) have offered opening arguments on what should come next now that the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act is law. Take a look to see what they think -- but don't stop there. As with most articles in Knol, these are open to collaboration, so you can rate what you read, submit comments, write full responses (i.e. reviews), or even suggest edits to the author by making changes right in the knol itself.

A possible social implication on the use of the web. May spark an idea for a segment of video?

Researchers studying the aging process have found that surfing the Web may improve the memories of middle-aged and older adults.

Article explains that malicious applications can be removed from the android phone. iPhone has the same feature. May give some inspiriation for a segment of vision?

Everyone's all a-twitter over the so-called "kill switch" found in Google's first Android phone, the T-Mobile G1. Here's the thing, though: Not only is it not a big deal -- it's actually a good thing.

Google Moderator is a simple tool that helps groups determine which questions should be asked at all hands meetings, conferences, Q&A sessions, etc. The idea is that there are always lots of good questions to ask in a limited period of time, but it's hard to know which questions the attendees are most interested in hearing discussed. Moderator lets users add questions and vote on the questions of others, so the cream rises to the top.

This way, the most popular and relevant questions would rise to the top so that the presenter or the moderator of an event could run the discussion more efficiently and in a transparent manner.

An attempt to summarise some of the concepts from 'A Whole New Mind'

The following concepts are based on the book entitled: 'A Whole New Mind' by Daniel H. Pink. The book argues that people who develop the Right-side of their brain hemisphere in the future will be the ones that will be in more demand by society and business.

Australian effort for instant chatting on a mobile.

The site is now expanding globally but Rodwell, 46, bristles at the suggestion that his creation is just another social network. He says that, while social networks are designed to help us keep in touch with our existing friends, Moko is all about making new connections.

Nearly two months ago, we introduced the Google Elections Video Search gadget on iGoogle, a tool that transcribes and indexes the spoken content on YouTube's Politicians channels. It didn't take long for folks to find some creative ways to use it! Now it's possible to enjoy this technology in a bigger way: We just launched Google Audio Indexing (aka GAudi) in Google Labs. The dedicated site offers more features, such as "search within video" and "sharing," and a more robust user interface.

Could provide a spark of an idea for a section of video?

This article may provide a spark of an idea for a section of a video.

Microsoft Zune users will be able to connect to the Zune Marketplace free in McDonald's restaurants across the U.S., Microsoft said Tuesday. Microsoft is collaborating with high-speed Internet access provider Wayport on the venture.

This article give some background on Google but also advertises a book entitled 'Planet Google' by Randall Stross

By 1998, the Web was getting big enough that it was hard for human editors to keep up. That's when Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google and built a search engine that, by using a computer algorithm, could in theory scale to include an infinite number of Web sites. Google sent a spider into the Web that would index every page it crawled past.

T-Mobile USA will become the first company in the world to announce a mobile phone based on Google's Android OS at a New York press conference Sept. 23, the New York Times reports, citing T-Mobile.

When the National Breast Cancer Foundation last ran its Pink Ribbon Breakfast campaign it had teams of volunteers pretending to be an online computer system.

Possible example of workflow software used for a charity. Might inspire a scene for a video?

This article shows how work flow software can enhance productivity for a charity in Australia

A new CareerBuilder.com survey found that 22% of all hiring managers have combed through social media profiles to help evaluate potential hires, up from just 11% two years ago.

Advertisers and tech companies are slowly honing in on the possibilities of localized, mobile advertising. Yesterday on the GoogleMobile blog, the search giant announced a big step in that direction with Search with My Location

A sprawling consortium of Hollywood content providers, consumer electronics companies, and Internet players said on Sept. 12 that its members are planning to develop a standard that will let consumers buy movies and other digital content once and play them almost anywhere, on any type of device

Blog entry from Pia Waugh who was involved in implementing OLPC in Niue.

In late July I was very privileged to help roll out the world's first 100% saturation of OLPC XOs to the country of Niue, in the Pacific near New Zealand. There are around 400 students, and every single one got a laptop! I was in charge of the server/wireless infrastructure, and the imaging of the laptops as well as technical training for the people there on the ground.

This article predicts what may happen in the future based on current experiments between universities. Gives some nice history. Some good material for a wiki.

Smarr is one of the people who can legitimately claim the benefit of foresight. He is one of the internet's architects, one of the academics who connected their universities using slow, slow dial-up modem links, just to see what would happen next. He has seen this communication highway grow, and is still at the forefront of research as he explores what he calls "ultra-broadband", asking the question: what will cyberspace look like when it is 10,000 times its current speed?

FCC is considering to allow free Wireless Internet but of course the large wireless carriers are against such a move.

"We need to reserve some spectrum for free broadband services," Martin said. "This would be lifeline broadband service . . . that would be designed for lower-income people who may not otherwise have access to the Internet."