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Project Gutenberg: More than 19,000 free ebooks from the public domain
Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart founded Project Gutenberg when he was granted an account with $100,000,000 of computer...
View ArticleThe House That Gates Built: Satellite Photos of Bill’s House
Have you been to 1835 73rd Ave NE, Medina, WA? If you didn’t recognize the address, that’s the location of the 48,000 square foot home of Melinda and Bill Gates. We’re still holding our breath for an...
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Codemonkey: The new media model for creative, Web-savvy musicians?
Last week, as I caught up on my backlog of podcasts, I heard a song on net@nite that Amber and Leo were laughing — hard — over. The tune was “Codemonkey” and a fan had posted a video to go along with...
View ArticleOpen educational resources (OER): Creating an online education commons worldwide
Every now and then, I’m lucky enough to meet one of our readers in person, outside of comment sections, forums, email, IM or other virtual interactions. It’s always a pleasure to get such direct...
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Facebook: A social network evolves into a social utility
What can I say about Facebook that hasn’t been said? Newsweek has placed Mort Zuckerberg, the founder of the social networking giant on its cover. And the press has been hyperventilating about Facebook...
View ArticleIPTV update: Free classes from UCBerkeley on YouTube; BoingBoing goes to...
As reported by the AFP, the University of California at Berkeley has created a dedicated channel on YouTube for more than 300 hours of classes and events. Videos include peace and conflicts studies,...
View ArticleVideo: Ted Nelson, hypertext and the Web
In this Google TechTalk, Ted Nelson discusses implementing the original hypertext concept and how transclusion should be used now to fulfill its original potential. While Nelson is credited with...
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Bit.ly: A better URL shortener for developers, data geeks and microbloggers
The old adage about not reinventing the wheel doesn’t quite extend to Web applications. URL shorteners may have been around for years but there is plenty of room for improvement. This list of 68 URL...
View ArticleVideo: Jimmy Wales on Google’s Knol
Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia, talked to WNYC’s Brian Lehrer about Google Knol, a new competitor to the world’s largest online encyclopedia. [kml_flashembed...
View ArticleVideo: MIT’s OpenCourseWare — Introduction to Algorithms (Lesson 1 and 2)
Thanks to a friendly Creative Commons license, these introductory lectures could be uploaded to Google Video by Peteris Krumins from the host on MIT’s OpenCourseWare website. In his post about them on...
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