"Never a Year Like '09″, the 2009 year in review animated video by JibJab. Check out the JibJab blog for a "Behind the Scenes" look at how the video was made.
Rodale Institute announces its first annual essay contest entitled "How Can Farming Restore Human and Ecological Health?"
The contest is open to high-school students who are FFA members and are enrolled in vocational agriculture classes.
Sarah Milstein predicts that micro-messaging will be as common as email in a few years and may replace email for certain kinds of information, such as client and customer relations.
micro-blogging is taking off because it fits how people work and think. But, cautions Lentz, “Think before you tweet. Each tweet is a webpage. It can be Googled. It’s forever.”
Rating systems are something I find myself discussing fairly frequently. Partly because the idea shows up in a lot of projects and partly because I usually end up relating it to the rules people set for themselves within different social networks.
shared on Plurk
"there isn't one mention of technology or the sort. Why you ask? Because the reality is that in order to swim, you have to have water."
a snapshot of schools today
"Many of my Professional Learning Network, including me, have recently experienced troubles with our various interactive social networks, including blog comments and Twitter. There is also the less obvious, yet serious problem: thieves that steal your postings without attributing the work to you."
"The Google Docs team is celebrating the holidays in big ways this year. With nine launches in the last two weeks - and a gallery full of festive templates - there will be no shortage of cheer!"
n a security advisory posted on its website, the Cupertino-based vendor of iMac and MacBook computers warned that it had discovered that hackers could create specially crafted image files capable of running malicious code without the user's authorisation,
American Time Use Survey asks thousands of American residents to recall every minute of a day. Here is how people over age 15 spent their time in 2008
very cool graphic; we need to socialize more, IMHO
"cell phone elbow," in which patients damage an essential nerve in their arm by bending their elbows too tightly for too long.
remedies
Avoid activities that require the elbow to be bent tighter than 90 degrees. Fix workstations so the elbows aren't overly flexed. Don't lean on your elbows for an extended period of time.