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| Communication revolutionFor the last couple of years, Google has been developing a communication product, platform and protocol called Google Wave.
Other than the convergence of email, instant messaging and collaborative documents, what is remarkable about Wave is that Google has opened it to everyone. Wave is open source and the open protocol is designed for federation. This means anyone can create their own interface and hosting environment for waves and still communicate across servers.
Find out more at the Google Wave Preview | | |
| Future of educationLast week a conference called Hacking Education re-imagined how education should look in the modern Web 2.0 world. The #HackEdu Twitter Conversations lens has a lot of interesting snippets of discussion from the conference.
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| LocalyteI think I live in one of the most beautiful cities in the world: Izmir, Turkey. The climate is great, the people are warm and friendly and there is a real richness to the history and culture here. If you enjoy traveling, why not consider visiting my city and use it as your starting point to discover how wonderful Turkey is.
See my Profile on Localyte.com!
Travel like a Local on Localyte.com! | | |
| Another lens One of the great things about commuting is the opportunity to travel without the responsibility of driving. With a smart phone, I often use this time to write.
I have turned some of my latest writing into a new Squidoo lens: Living in Turkey : Housing. It is a guide to housing in Turkey, with particular focus on our own experience of living in inner city and suburban apartments in the beautiful city of Izmir.
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| Reliability of textbooksI stumbled upon this interesting experience of a scientist involved in selecting school text books.
In 1964 the eminent physicist Richard Feynman served on the State of California's Curriculum Commission and saw how the Commission chose math textbooks for use in California's public schools. In his acerbic memoir of that experience, titled "Judging Books by Their Covers," Feynman analyzed the Commission's idiotic method of evaluating books, and he described some of the tactics employed by schoolbook salesmen who wanted the Commission to adopt their shoddy products. "Judging Books by Their Covers" appeared as a chapter in "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" -- Feynman's autobiographical book that was published in 1985 by W.W. Norton & Company.
Read the chapter here...
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