Robin Good Archive Of Latest News
July 2006

Peak Oil, Global Warming: The Heat Is On - Video Interviews by Marc Strassman   On July 27, 2000, online video news reporter and California-based Marc Strassman, interviewed Pulitzer-winning author Ross Gelbspan about his recently-published book on global warming, The Heat is On. As the San Fernando Valley, where Solar World, the forward-looking alternative energy digital news magazine published by Marc... Link | cat.: Marc Strassman - Etopia Media News -- July 31

Training Teachers Is Our Society's Achille's Heel: The Demise Of Schools Of Education   Question: What big idea of 2006 will be extinct in 2036? Answer: Modern teacher training By 2036, the forms of teacher preparation that currently prevail in Western nations will have sunk into oblivion. We will have discarded schools of education, the pedagogies they teach, and the certification apparatus... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Peter Wood - Maercatornet -- July 31

New Media Picks Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 63   Photo credit: Elen Voice chat interactively, send and receive instant messages, and transfer files over the Internet Send and receive files and folders of any size with your existing email account Video hosting service that allows you to upload any video under 10MB without registration Web-based platform that lets you... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Livia Iacolare and Robin Good -- July 30

Effective Learning: What I Saw Is Still What I Want - Intelligent, Smart, Learner-Centered Education   Seven years ago in Bangkok, during my participation at an international workshop on improving training quality, organized by the World Bank Institute, I hand-wrote the following: "We are light-years away from what I would call effective training or education." Photo credit: Jacob Wackerhousen I had just been out of... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- July 29

Visual Similarity Search Engine Finds Images According To Your Specs   Xcavator is a new type of search engine which utilizes visual clues that you provide to identify and extract similar pictures from large groups of digital images. Xcavator intro and quick tour Similar to another existing Flickr visual search tool called Retrievr, which allows you to make... Link | cat.: Robin Good -- July 28

Open-Source Web Conferencing Gets Serious: DimDim Is Coming   A new fully web-based, 2.0, open-source web conferencing tool is about to enter its Alpha development stage. Named DimDim, this is, in my humble opinion, the clear fruit of cutting edge work and research on both marketing and collaboration technologies, which showcases understanding of the major... Link | cat.: Robin Good - Kolabora -- July 27

Helping Others See Beyond The Surface, Makes Blogs True Digital Weapons Of Mind Change   Changing other people's minds, launching small and large Calls To Action, influencing and persuading others, providing insightful tools and pointers to facilitate self-discovery and personal understanding: these are the most powerful applications that individuals, small online publishers and passionate researchers can make of blogs today. Helping... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good and John Blossom - Shore -- July 27

Watch TV Back Home And Call Any Phone Number Around The World With The New Sightspeed 5   Today Sightspeed will release a new version of its excellent video conferencing software, which not only allows PC, Mac and Linux-based users to communicate with video and audio for free, (paid accounts get a lot more for next to nothing) and also makes it now possible... Link | cat.: Robin Good -- July 26

Accessible Search By Google Helps Blind Users Find What They Are Looking For   Google Accessible Search is designed to help the visually challenged find the most relevant, useful and comprehensive information, as quickly as possible. More broadly, Google defines accessible websites and pages as content that the blind and visually challenged can use and consume using standard online web... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- July 26

Blog Search Engine Technorati Releases Major Upgrade And New Features   Technorati product manager Liz Dunn walks you through some of the most interesting key new features in the new Technorati After many months of testing, frustrating feedback and comments from users, Technorati, the three year old blog search engine, released a few hours ago a new... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- July 25

Video Display Interface Of The Future Projects Images Into Thin Air   Photo credit: KRON 4 News San Francisco San Francisco Technology Reporter Gabriel Slate looks at this new way to display video on air. This new technology requires no screens, monitors or other physical surfaces to be able to project and display its images. "Heliodisplay images are not holographic... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- July 24

New Media Picks Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 62   Photo credit: Ircrockett Ajax/Flash-based web application that lets you create, share and access presentations online Jabber client program that allows free PC to PC calls using the VoIP system over the Jabber network Web-based word processor that can read and write Microsoft Word and other standard document formats Social... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Livia Iacolare and Robin Good -- July 23

Innovation Must Be User-Centric, Shareable: Von Hippel's Democratized Innovation Shows The Road   It is becoming progressively easier for many users to get precisely what they want by designing it for themselves. Users that innovate can develop exactly what they want, rather than relying on manufacturers to act as their (often very imperfect ) agents. Moreover, individual users do... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Eric Von Hippel - Democratizing Innovation -- July 22

Interactive Mashup Technology Brings Together Mobile Phone, TV And Computer : Millicent Preview   A "behind the scenes" look at a new interactive technology being developed. Take your picture from your mobile, send your picture, schedule its playback. Capture your TV contents and play them out through your Millicent Player. Can you figure out what this is? Can you help me discover... Link | cat.: Robin Good -- July 22

Online Video Interview Recorder: When?   While Google Video has just released a brand new feature which allows you to address via a standard URL any specific point inside a video (thanks Google for this - please give us next a way to also point to a video "segment"), I remain yet... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- July 21

VoIP Telephony: GizmoProject Ushers Us Further Into The New Free Phone Calls Era - All Calls Free Launches Today   Today, SIPphone, Inc., the company that develops GizmoProject, the Skype competitor Internet calling and instant messaging software, launches a new calling plan that will allow active Gizmo Project users to place FREE calls to landlines and mobile phones in 60 countries around the world. The new... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- July 20

Design Conversations Around Your Key Content: Gather.com   Design Conversations Around Your Key Content should certainly be the second divine mantra for the soon-to-be successful online social media aggregator and publisher. (The first one is obviously "aggregation", though the obstacles and challenges are not any smaller for this other one too). Photo credit: Kirsty Pargeter Online... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment John Blossom - Shore -- July 19

Record And Publish Your Video Announcements Online: Hellodeo   If you are looking for a great simple free tool, that allows you to record your own video and publish it online, your search is over: Hellodeo allows you to record straight from your webcam, camcorder or from any other video signal you have incoming into... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- July 18

Teaching And Learning Online: Meeting Learners In Their Natural Cyber-Habitat   "Teaching and learning are changing with the Internet. Students are by and large vastly more digitally literate than many of their instructors. This is a generation that was born to and came of age online. The Internet and technology, in many cases, appears second nature for... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Dennis Dunleavy - Student Matters -- July 17

New Media Picks Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 61   Photo credit: Jimmires Social media network that enables musicians and video artists to sell their music and videos Earn money from your website or blog, by selling books, DVDs, and CDs that you personally select Web-based service that enables you to create your personal online portfolio Upload files and... read more | cat.: | Link Livia Iacolare and Robin Good -- July 16

What Is A Blog? More Video Remixes And How-To   What is a blog? Video Remixes from TheWeblogProject - remixes edited on Jumpcut.com What is a blog? Here is a new mini-compilation (see previous one) of great video remixes that I and my micro video-editing team have created for TheWeblogProject. These have all been edited and produced... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- July 15

Future Of Media Report Released: Highlights And Commentary   The Future of Media Report has just been released, a few days in advance of the Future of Media event taking place next week in San Francisco and Sidney. Ross Dawson, one of the two key organizers of this event, has just sent me a short... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- July 14

News Aggregation Is Online Independent Publishers Natural Next Step   If you have mastered the blogging paradigm, have made your blog an authority and a reliable source of information, commentary or news in your selected field(/s) of interest, it is about time to "scale yourself up" - Work Less and Look More At The Bigger Picture... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- July 13

Intellectual Property vs. Knowledge Sharing: Who Gains?   "Professionals" in any field come in two flavors: Knowledge Sharers and Knowledge Hoarders. The hoarders believe in the value of their "Intellectual Property" (IP). The products of their mind must be carefully guarded lest anyone steal their precious ideas. Photo credit: Linda Bucklin But let's face it... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Kathy Sierra - Creating Passionate Users -- July 12

The Future of Online Collaboration: Stuart Henshall   What does the future of online collaboration have in store for us? In these fast changing times how are you going to work, communicate, exchange and show documents, ideas, pressing needs and information requests to your peers, when they are all working at a distance? Why web... Link | cat.: Robin Good - Kolabora -- July 11

Global Warming: An Inconvenient Truth - The Movie Is Here   Our ability to safely live on this planet is what is at stake. Celebrated by independent film critics, communication gurus and environmental researchers and activists everywhere, this inspiring new full-featured documentary, which has opened two-weeks ago in selected theaters in North America, dramatically highlights the very delicate... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- July 10

New Media Picks Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 60   Photo credit: Milan Richter Get paid for publishing your best video clips and images to this user-generated content Mobile blogging service provides ability to easily publish to the web your best shots Server-based open-source free online collaboration space to share, comment, interact, revise, collaborate, and collaborate Hosted online service... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Livia Iacolare and Robin Good -- July 9

User Interfaces: What Visual Future On Your Computer Desktops?   Want to get a glimpse of what your future computer desktop may look like and operate? Check this video: University of Toronto student//honeybrown.ca/">Anand Agarawala has reimagined the computer desktop in a way that reflects the "fuzzy" way we deal with information, taking its inspiration from the messy... Link | cat.: Jeremiah McNichols - Thinking in Pictures -- July 8

Online SEO Hittail Service Taps Long Tail To Get Better Organic Search Results: Good or Bad?   A new SEO service makes it possible for bloggers as well as for small and medium-sized online publishers to easily identify keywords combinations already present in their web site content, which if further "leveraged" by building further "doctored" content around them could provide one of the... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- July 7

Power To The People: The US vs. John Lennon - The Movie   The US vs. John Lennon - movie trailer The US vs. John Lennon is a new provocative feature movie to be shown in commercial theaters starting this coming September. The movie reports John Lennon's transformation from a beloved popular musical artist, member of one of the... Link | cat.: Robin Good -- July 7

How Can Major Online News Publishers Compete With Weblogs And Small Independent Online News Outlets   "If you can't break the story itself, break the take that everyone waits for." In the ever more competitive online news universe, if you are competing for business revenues, you need to understand now, better than later, that they most powerful key competitive advantage available to you... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good and John Blossom - Shore -- July 6

Video Mashups Can Say A Lot More Than Words: Imagine This! Video Remix   Source: Lulu.tv Here is a great video remix that shows further the potential of using video, music and remixing to create powerful and highly viral messages. If you are not a too-sensitive about seeing Mr President rapping about making this a better world... Link | cat.: Robin Good -- July 5

Server Slowdown Problems: Possible Causes Lead To Comments, RSS, Cron, and MSNbot   Server slowdown problems? If you, like me, are a small, independent online publisher, losing consistent traffic while knowing that the cause is not your readers taking off to other better destinations can be as frustrating as trying to hold water with your hands. If your real-time traffic... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- July 5

Portable VoIP USB Key Makes Low-Cost Calls From Any PC You Connect It To: Vonage V-Phone   Vonage announced its Vonage V-Phone, a portable and multifunctional USB device which allows anyone to carry around a matchbox-sized portable low-cost SIP phone which can be very easily connected and used with any PC connected to the Internet, without further installation procedures or setup. The new Vonage... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good and John Blossom - Shore -- July 4

Personal Growth, Personal Independence: The Limit Is Me   One day all the employees reached the office and they saw a big advice on the door on which it was written: "Yesterday the person who has been hindering your growth in this company passed away. We invite you to join the funeral in the room... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Anonymous -- July 4

Corporate TV: Education-Based Online Video Marketing Focuses On What Your Customers Want to Learn   Corporate TV: Education-based online video marketing focuses on what your customers want to learn not on what you want to sell. Do that correctly and your customers will see your company as a trusted advisor. Using video and the internet to better promote and qualify your products,... Link | cat.: Robin Good - Mindblazer -- July 3

New Media Picks Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 59   Photo credit: Tom Denham Web-based editor enables you to write online documents and collaborate with colleagues Online tool allows you to edit your pictures online Write and share documents easily, quickly and privately Draw pictures and label things on a Google map and see your work in 3D Online multiuser... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good and Livia Iacolare -- July 2

Converting Statistical Data Into Beautiful Animated Story-Telling Charts: Hans Rosling From TED 2006   We need to "see" through information. Visual imagery can tell stories and truths which would be very hard to capture and communicate otherwise. While we need to badly see how the world is changing from a comprehensive and... Link | cat.: Hans Rosling - TED Conference 2006 - Ted Talks -- July 1

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