Best content in Multiliteracies Evo session

shared by Vanessa Vaile on 11 Feb 10 - Cached

network coding.
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Most networks right now are built roughly along the same principles as a transportation network, or any other network that’s trying to deliver tangible goods,
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With network coding, however, a router doesn’t just hand off the packets it receives; it mathematically combines them into new, hybrid packets. If the combination is done cleverly enough, this makes the whole network more efficient.
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But if, instead of forwarding our messages, the router combines them and broadcasts the combination, there are only three total transmissions. Since you have a copy of the message you sent me, you can subtract it from the combination, and I can do the same with the message I sent you. If our laptops and the router do a little extra processing, they reduce the system’s bandwidth consumption by 25 percent.
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proved a counterintuitive result: in many cases, the best way to combine data at a router is to do it randomly.
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Random coding yields the biggest gains in networks where connections are spotty, but where there are several possible routes between sender and receiver.
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shared by Vanessa Vaile on 05 Feb 10 - Cached

There are just way too many networks to keep up with and just not enough time to follow all those conversations that are going on all of them.
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Gizapage: Social Media Hub
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simplifies the way people can keep up with each othe
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. It provides you with a one-stop shop for all your social networking profile
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FriendFeed
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Power.com: all your friends in just one place
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Power.com tries to do for social media what Meebo has done to IM’s; basically blurring the boundaries that separate one network from the other and allowing to use them all from one interface and exchange information and images from any of them and to all of them.
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ultimate interoperability
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shared by Maria Rosario Di Mónaco on 08 Feb 10 - Cached

shared by Mariel Amez on 13 Jan 10 - Cached

shared by Vanessa Vaile on 09 Feb 10 - Cached

the most modern communication tools — blogs, podcasts, YouTube — are actually returning us to an ancient form of media, one in which everyone participates on almost equal footing.
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fundamental human urge to tell our own stories
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Before mass media, before the written word — for all of human history — story-telling was a shared privilege.
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Mass media succeeded in creating a common culture, but did nothing to foster the communities that naturally emerge when people tell their stories to each other.
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Now, finally, there is a counter-trend.
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Howard Rheingold framed it beautifully, when he wrote The Virtual Community, nearly 15 years ago: "Perhaps cyberspace is one of those informal public places, where people can rebuild the aspects of community that were lost when the malt shop became a mall."
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newest digital technologies are returning us to the most ancient form of media — one in which a natural order is restored; our individual stories take center stage
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