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Lessig on Google’s Book Search in SWF

Professor Larry Lessig has posted a screencast of a talk on Google’s Book Search project. It’s an 80+ MB torrent download. I played it into Camtasia and tweaked the settings until I got it down to a 22 MB SWF which is a little more bearable – without too much loss of fidelity. It’s an […]

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Michigan to Require Online Course in High School

The Michigan State Board of Education is set to approve a new graduation requirement today that would require every high-school student in the state to take at least one online course before receiving a diploma. The Chronicle: Wired Campus Blog: ‘The Cutting Edge’? This proposal has a few hurdles to clear, but it certainly highlights […]

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Social Software Fatigue

I found myself catching up on a bunch of blog articles that I had checked and not read over the past month. There were over 30 of them and it took a diligent 2 hours to read through them all. Some were interesting enough to tag in my del.icio.us account and others I emailed to […]

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