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"Until now most self-published authors wanting to create a visually rich ebook had to hire a software developer to produce it, costing hundreds if not thousands of dollars and taking many weeks. With Blurb's new ebook offering, the file conversion happens automatically in moments, and costs just $1.99 per download, saving Blurb authors considerable time, money and frustration. "

This shows how authors that wanted to create a self enriched book would have to hire somebody to do it but now with the changes in their workflow software they can now do it for just a cost of $1.99.

New ways people entertain - real life imitating software.

Real Life Photoshop Desktop -- cool looking, but imagine how LONG this took to make! I could see something like this to teach about a software program you REALLY had to know. This is very cool. New trend: Real Life imitating software.

Important article to read about how a virtual avatar murder has consequences in the physical world.

Artists are moving to have their rights protected in new ways. With copyright infringement running rampant, somehow artists and others have to figure out how to navigate in this new world. I wish artists would consider some sort of educational license ot let students make videos and use their music in school media.

Artists are campaigning for a change in their rights.

Article written in India newspaper about the Flat Classroom and Flat Classroom conference held in Mumbai. I loved this quote: "To become what the project aspires won't actualise without delivering on imperatives of access and inclusion. Consequently, the idea 'How can I include those who are not like me' underlined most discussions at the conference. There, says Davis, Web2.0, far from being a cultural flattener, is "a culture enhancing tool. It lets students who don't travel, travel virtually, and makes them see where cultural disconnects are happening." For a first-hand experience of these gaps, participants visited Akanksha and Aseema schools that reach out to the underprivileged. One Australian participant came back and told her remote virtual classmates: "Today I stepped through the gaps between the rich and the poor, from Aseema to ASB.""

" If you are in the entertainment industry, or if you are thinking of breaking into the entertainment industry, you will need to find creative workflow that will allow you to have more control over editing, sound and other media aspects. " This website helps you to choose which workflow software you will need if you are thinking of coming into the entertainment industry.

Ubiquitous computing in education, as defined in this book, is teachers and students having access to technology (computing devices, the Internet, services) whenever and wherever they need it. In a world of ubiquitous computing, the technology is always accessible and is not the focus of learning. Rather, faculty and students are active partners in the learning process, and they decide not only what technology is needed but also what to learn and how best to create new knowledge.

This article explains how computer scientists make the software that brings entertainment to the world more efficiently. The software that makes the effects can also help movie makers display their ideas better, thus simplifying communication.

Describes how art gives shape to cultural change and redefines culture.

This article is about how the UK Government will work alongside technology titans including Google and Facebook to help Sir Tim Berners-Lee in his mission to bring affordable internet to all. The Alliance for Affordable Internet founded by Berners-Lee's World Wide Web Foundation received backing from the UK government on Monday, which will help the group reach its goal of bringing affordable internet to 90 percent of the global population that don't have access yet.

A NeXT Computer was used by Berners-Lee as the world's first web server and also to write the first web browser, WorldWideWeb, in 1990. By Christmas 1990, Berners-Lee had built all the tools necessary for a working Web:[7] the first web browser (which was a web editor as well); the first web server; and the first web pages,[8] which described the project itself. On August 6, 1991, he posted a short summary of the World Wide Web project on the alt.hypertext newsgroup.[9] This date also marked the debut of the Web as a publicly available service on the Internet. The first server outside Europe was set up at SLAC to host the SPIRES-HEP database. Accounts differ substantially as to the date of this event. The World Wide Web Consortium says December 1992,[10] whereas SLAC itself claims 1991.[11][12] This is supported by a W3C document entitled A Little History of the World Wide Web.[13]

World Wide Web

This website includes information about the Internet and how it works.

This article talks about how software for phones, computers, and tablets is becoming more centralized and organized. Microsoft is trying to progress its software into the mobile world while other companies like Apple are trying to provide a consistent, well organized and accepted OS.

In this case, arts, entertainment and leisure influences science and health -- viral videos and the new way that information spreads is fundamentally changing activism and promoting change. Talk about something to another person and just have a "jab session" -- make a video that goes viral and you can change the world.

Interestingly, inconvenient youth is built on the Ning platform. Fascinating use. This video from the blue man group on the environment has been widely viewed around the world. Such videos spark social change -- these are not TV commercials but viral videos that spread from blog to blog and email to email. How information travels has fundamentally changed.

Share this with your students who love video games. I love how Alfred shares his thoughts on the transition from gamer to game designer. This is a huge market especially as education moves to gaming platforms as well.

This blog post is from one of Microsoft's bloggers and helps students understand what is required to create video games versus just playing them. Fits in well with Flat Classroom.

4th steroid. More on about DreamWorks and getting started with video conferencing. Gives us an idea on how it got started, who uses it, and what all had to b put into it to get it started

This article is about how the internet has become important for artist to use to make a living of of it

The history of how google has looked.

The Wayback machine used to search for Google - see how Google has looked through the years.

In Friedman's book (p 191) he talks about how Napster was perhaps "the most popular website ever created. In less than a year, it went from zero to 60 million visitors a month." This article has a great picture and says that Napster, "redefine the Internet, the music industry and the way we all think about intellectual property. "

Background on Napster - important for virtual communications group.

This site explains how outsourcing on the US economy will be a positive effect. It also tells you about hiring foreign workers will have an immediate effect on the economy and this will lead to many Americans losing their jobs.