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Tab Cleanup

Posted on 10/8/2007, 10:10 pm, by Colin Charles, under General.

Twitter as a micro-news outlet
The other day, I was on a train, and witnessed something interesting – 3 drunk blokes were chatting up girls, got a little violent (throwing rubbish at people, asking a bloke to vacate his seat, etc.), and the cops were called in. Then, we stopped at Parliament and stayed there for about 40 minutes. On the last train of the night. Turns out, being an underground train station, a lot of other trains were backlogged, so Ben Barren told another train driver what the situation was, all thanks to the power of Twitter. What it looked like on Twitter – thanks Cris, aka Mr. Skitch :)

Google Code for Educators
Here comes free courseware, created especially for CS educators. There are currently tutorials on AJAX Programming, and Distributed Systems with sample course content as well. Video lectures exist just as well. So if you’re a busy professor, or sitting in a CS faculty and wondering what’s new and what might be hip to teach this semester, consider the Google Code for Educators site.

The Podcast Network
Cameron Reilly is the host of an amazing show, G’Day World, and he’s also the convenor for the Melbourne Online Digital Media. The other thing he’s done is create the world’s first podcast network (The Podcast Network – TPN). An interesting interview with him in an issue of the Australian Anthill, titled 24-hour podcast people. Cam’s a really interesting bloke to chat with – from podcasting to Facebook to Second Life.

Squeezed Books
One of the things I do after reading a management book, or biographies, is write summaries of my thoughts and take notes about it in my blog in my books category. This is what Squeezed Books is all about – summaries of books. If you’re too busy, or just want a summary before reading the book, this might be the exact site for you. Take for example the summary of The Tipping Point – now, when I write my quick summary/review, I’ll have to write less text :)

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One Comment

  1. David N. Welton says:
    11/8/2007 at 4:04 am

    Hi,

    Thanks for the mention of Squeezed Books! Beyond providing summaries, we also hope to promote discussion of the books on the site, so feel free to stop over and ask a question or express an opinion on the books there.

    Also, if you’d like to share any of the summaries you’ve written so far, they’d be very, very welcome.

    Thanks,
    Dave

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