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here is just one problem. How did these delegates, from around the world, get to the conference? For the most part, they flew over land and sea in airplanes. Airplanes are known to be one of the bigger offenders of CO2 emissions. The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimates that air travel causes 3.5 percent of global warming. This could increase to 15 percent by 2050.When landed, some potentates traveled by gas-guzzling limousine.

addressed the conference in a 3-D animated avatar version of himself. In doing this, Markey saved an estimated 5.36 tons of CO2 emissions. Citizens from many different countries are reported to have attended the virtual Bali conference the same way Markey chose to attend.

I had a realization. Even the biggest geeks in the world still like to meet face to face.

Stumpedia.com is a social search engine that relies on human participation to index, organize, and review the world wide web.

In the real world, managing your reputation should be paramount. Showing up on time, being helpful to colleagues, and taking the occasional shower increase the reputation points you can leverage in any number of ways, including career advancement. Many of us spend a lot of time, if not thought, on maintaining our good rep. If you have a virtual presence, chances are you have an online reputation, too. It’s probably codified in some form. On eBay, I have a 100 percent positive feedback from 46 dealmakers, and my reviews on several consumer sites are considered, in aggregate, “somewhat” useful.

The Charlie Rose show began a new series on the future of newspapers. The series focuses on how the web is and other new technologies have caused a great shift in the media landscape. Newspapers are struggling to adapt. Overall revenues have fallen three years in a row. These numbers could reach double digits this year. Many advertisers have fled print for the web. Joining him are Robert Thomson, managing editor of The Wall Street Journal, Mort Zuckerman, owner and publisher of the New York Daily News and the editor in chief of U.S. News & World Report, and Walter Isaacson, president and CEO of the Aspen Institute.

Take a deep breath and relax; building a widget isn't rocket science. But in this nascent world of distributed content, where standards are not yet established, understanding your options along with some generally accepted best practices will help you make smart design and development choices for your project.  So how do you determine what's right for your widget? From timing to technical specs, here's a how-to for budgets large and small, whether you have in-house designers and developers or are looking to outsource, and anything in-between

That event was one of my best learning experiences.  It reinforced the need to meet with learners and understand their world.  It also opened my eyes to think beyond the obvious.  A big pitfall is that we tend to rest in the familiar. Without the time on the floor, I would have built a functional course, but missed the opportunity to make real improvements on their performance.

And finally, what about the magical number seven? What about the seven wonders of the world, the seven seas, the seven deadly sins, the seven daughters of Atlas in the Pleiades, the seven ages of man, the seven levels of hell, the seven primary colors, the seven notes of the musical scale, and the seven days of the week? What about the seven-point rating scale, the seven categories for absolute judgment, the seven objects in the span of attention, and the seven digits in the span of immediate memory? For the present I propose to withhold judgment. Perhaps there is something deep and profound behind all these sevens, something just calling out for us to discover it. But I suspect that it is only a pernicious, Pythagorean coincidence.

I talked about Diigo last year and am still singing its praises both privately and publicly. When I stumbled across this video on YouTube, I had to post it. It was made by a teacher explaining how students could use it when researching their term papers. With just a little imagination, I am sure you can see how it can be used to make notes on resumes you found online and more Check out the 8-minute video below and let me know what you think.

A few highlights from their website… The Best Web Annotation Service: Add highlights and sticky notes on any web page, anywhere, and access them anywhere. A Great Webpage Clipping Tool: Highlighted portions of any webpage are clipped and collected centrally, which can be shared and searched. An All-in-One Bookmarking Tool: Bookmark webpages to Diigo, local folder, del.icio.us , Simpy, Furl, Spurl… and make them permanently cached and full-text searchable. A Great Collaborative Platform: Share and interact on online findings, complete with highlights and sticky notes. The Most Customizable Search Tool: Like Google’s toolbar, but far more customizable, so you can access any search service with one-click — music, maps, references, local library, New York Times, … Unique Content Selection Menu: Interact with any word on a webpage just by selecting it, no click needed! - highlight, search, look up - whatever you you want!

A panel run by David Armano on Social Media in a B2B world had a panelist from Leopardo Construction, Todd Andrilik. Todd, who’s the company’s director of marketing and PR, is using a wordpress blog as a newsroom .

It was a huge event, with close to 2,000 participants and a palpable energy and a sense of - finally - progress. The conference was attended by the ministers for energy or senior political representatives  from several countries (the UK, Germany, several Nordic countries - see the link above) and happened at the same time as an important German government meeting that decided to increase offshore tariffs to 14c/kWh, a strongly supportive measure which is likely to be the starting point of a massive wave of investment in the sector in that country. Interestingly, despite that decision, and the excitement it generated, the UK market is still seen as likely to be bigger than the German one over the next 10-15 years, with all other markets being somewhat smaller.

With tongue in cheek and apologies to the Wal-Mart version we have all heard, please consider these thoughts that are sure to help us NOT achieve sustainability in 2008.

Social networking, popularized by teens sharing information with their friends online on Web sites such as Facebook Inc., is now blooming in the business world, thanks to new social networks that enable professionals and executives in industries such as advertising and finance to rub virtual elbows with colleagues.

In this article, I’m going to share the 7 essential topics that will give your blog the focus it needs. We’ll look at real world examples, and define some criteria to determine which is right for your business.

"The whole fashion system will have to change," says Beppe Modenese, called the founding father of Milan Fashion Week. "[It] must adapt to the reality that there is no strong difference between summer and winter anymore."

In a follow-up to his now-legendary TED2006 presentation, Hans Rosling demonstrates how developing countries are pulling themselves out of poverty.

As millions of students across the world go back to school this month, 178 students from 49 countries will turn on their computers and step onto the virtual campus of the world's first global, tuition-free online university.