Fri 11 Feb. 2005

Blogs on the Nile

While I’m just beginning to discover a whole new world of Indian bloggers, Tim Oren of Due Diligence reports on the growing numbers in Egypt:

Blogs on the Nile

Now there are enough Egyptian bloggers, in both English and Arabic, to have their own aggregator site.

All the merrier!

More on Weblogs in Education

Will Richardson of Weblogg-ed News in a piece on blogs in Edutopia magazine:

In the last few years, blogs have turned the political and technological world upside down. Now they’re turning the classroom inside out.

It’s hard not to envy the kids.

The Unassociated Press

The New York Times on Wikinews

If this article had been published on Wikinews, a Web site begun recently, there would be something more you could do: change it, fix it, expand it or delete it.

flickrGraph

A different flickr user search

(via Weblogg-ed News)

Anticipating Change

Ross Mayfield’s post, Media Disintermediation, provides ample food for thought on rapidly evolving business models.

In a month jobs.feedster.com will have more job listings than Monster.com.

And that’s just one example…

His follow-up post, The Long Tail, elaborates on the milestone Wired article.

Paying Attention…

This one’s for Hugh over at dose magazine: The New York Times > Technology section:

You There, at the Computer: Pay Attention

For the past eight years, Mr. Serotta has used a laptop computer. “That means I can take my ability to dodge serious work everywhere,” he said. “I really depend on small technical distractions to keep me away from the things I dread doing.”

Worth the distraction… ?

Podcasting Growth

Burning Questions - The Official FeedBurner Weblog has an impressive chart and stats on RSS Metrics, Podcasting

(via Micro Persuasion)

The lost 1984 video, Part 2

The long awaited additional set of videos has been made available by the guys from Industrial Technology & Witchcraft.

Download via bittorrent or various file mirrors as single files or all zipped together.

Yay!