Really interesting article and videos featuring Robert Pinsky, US poet laureate

This is the game I talked about in class

Roger Ebert tweeted this link earlier and I found it especially poignant. How do we grieve or even find out when people we only know online pass away?

This was posted by Peter Jackson's official "The Hobbit" Blog. It seems to correlate to a lot of the things we're talking about, its essentially someone remixing the LOTR films. I just find it amazing that it could get noticed by the film makers and then reposted to his several hundrad thousand followers.

and to think I had finally come around on Zuckerberg

Google  announced this years ago but is just now releasing the product, seems like the missed the netbook window considering tablets are all the rage

This article is a must-read for anyone who cares about education and academia

A really interesting article about a NYT feature that allowed readers to come up with plans to balance the budget. The Wisdom of Crowds concept came through as the crowd overwhelmingly came up with balanced non-partisan plans. 

Here's the actual NYT article for anyone who's interested http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/weekinreview/14leonhardt.html?ref=davidleonhardt

Came across this while searching in Google Blogs, this blogger tries to relate principles from "The Widsom of Crowds" to the never-ending Mac vs. PC debate

I subscribe to three print publications, ESPN, NYT, and the New Yorker. All three now allow me to get the latest issue on my iPad long before the print one arrives at my door.

Well there goes the neighborhood, now I'll get ten phone calls a day requesting me to send an energy pack in mafia wars

And to think Dr. Burton's iPad two will already be obsolete!

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