July 2009
30 posts
Free: a great book, but it’s missing the truly... →
I really love Cory’s insights on Chris Anderson’s Free because of his years of experience giving away his own content. Cory Doctorow was also mentioned in the unabridged audiobook.
Jul 31st
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Jul 30th
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TFTF 115: Facebook Photo Ads? It's Complicated. -...
Mp3 Audio If you have checked facebook status you might have seen something like “Facebook has agreed to let third party advertisers use your posted pictures without your permission.” and might end with “Help your friends…cut and paste this into your status.” Is this true? Would Facebook let their advertiser’s use user’s photos? (Thank you xkcd!!) There...
Jul 29th
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Jul 21st
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Jul 21st
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Teaching for the Future 114: Free, The Future of a...
Mp3 Audio In today’s podcast we are going to talk about some confidential Twitter memos that were leaked to the web, how the Guardian newspaper was able to leverage Twitter for better converstaions, and I’ll review and discuss Chris Anderson’s new book Free: The Future of a Radical Price. *Twitter’s confidential memos on TechCrunch Reblogged from soupsoup: The...
Jul 19th
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Careful with Those Shortened Links →
“If you want to be safe, therefore, only click on shortened links if you trust who created them. If you must or want click on a link but don’t know if it is legitimate, use a URL unshortening tool.”
Jul 19th
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Jul 17th
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Twitter's confidential memos on TechCrunch →
soupsoup: The documents include employment agreements, calendars of the founders, new employee interview schedules, phone logs and bills, alarm settings, a financial forecast, a pitch for a Twitter TV show, confidentiality agreements with companies such as AOL, Dell, Ericsson, and Nokia, a list of employee dietary restrictions, credit card numbers, Paypal and Gmail screen shots, and much more.
Jul 17th
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How We Invest in Our People - Education! →
chrbutler: I just saw this post from Matt at the 37 Signals blog about the benefit of “playtime” on innovation in the workplace. It’s a brief thought but a very important one. Matt pulls a quote from Jim Coudal that is right on: Most of the smart, creative, successful people I know spend a good deal of time looking for inspiration, tracking down ideas and doing research. We do all those things...
Jul 17th
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Teaching for the Future 113
Mp3 Audio *The Day Facebook Changed: Messages to Become Public by Default From NYTimes.com: “Facebook messages are about to be publicly visible. A whole lot of people are going to hate it. When ex-lovers, bosses, moms, stalkers, cops, creeps and others find out what people have been posting on Facebook - the reprimand that “well, you could have changed your default setting” is...
Jul 16th
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Jul 14th
Maine negotiates to provide MacBooks to all 7–12... →
Jul 13th
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Jul 12th
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The Museum of Forgotten Art Supplies →
I used a composing stick like this when I was in college in 2003. I was taking a type setting printing class. Never Forget
Jul 11th
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Teaching for the Future 112
Mp3 Audio Subscribe: iTunes- Subscribe RSS- Subscribe Twitter- @davelamorte Email- TeachingfortheFuture@gmail.com    Ustream- TftF Live Show Notes: * Nintendo sneaks out new school edition DS: DS Classroom will be teacher’s favourite little helper “The Nintendo DS Classroom <original pressrelease in Japanese> features no new hardware, but instead consists of a package of...
Jul 10th
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“Why, it’s enough to make the technologically paranoid imagine that Facebook’s...”
– Facebook: ‘Why not give your ex another shot?’ - Technotica- msnbc.com (via girloffscript)
Jul 9th
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Virtual Box →
DaveLaMorte: Has anyone else had trouble with Sugar on a Stick? http://teachingforthefuture.com/post/131818302/sugar-is-sweet-ars-technica #linux #sugar # (99) pbhanney: @DaveLaMorte I actually have Sugar running in Virtual Box without any problems. DaveLaMorte: @pbhanney WHAT’S VIRTUAL BOX?!? TELL ME MORE?!?! (sorry I’m shouting to honor Billy Mays) pbhanney: @DaveLaMorte...
Jul 8th
The Day Facebook Changed: Messages to Become... →
From thekeri
Jul 7th
Microsoft Joins Twitter! →
This is definitly not news by anysense, but I still think it is funny. Thanks to Russell John!
Jul 6th
Slate: Does Plastic Art Last Forever? Not even... →
Jul 5th
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As Plants Close, Teenagers Focus More on College  →
“They would get a good-paying job at the General Motors factory or at one of the Delphi auto parts plants, get married and start families. But the deep recession and the downsizing of American manufacturing have bulldozed those plans, leaving many of these young people confused and rudderless, with some contemplating a path that might be new to their families: college.” from...
Jul 4th
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Jul 3rd
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Rubber Room: documentary about New York teacher... →
from boingboing.net
Jul 2nd
13-year-old trades iPod for Walkman (Engadget) →
“It took me three days to figure out that there was another side to the tape. That was not the only naive mistake that I made; I mistook the metal/normal switch on the Walkman for a genre-specific equaliser, but later I discovered that it was in fact used to switch between two different types of cassette.” from Engadget
Jul 1st