Dick Moore

Next generation of XBOX is reveled 7 times as powerful as the current version - seems about right. details at http://uk.ign.com/article... Microsoft reveled at the CES expo that they had sold 66 million xbox's, not sure how many are connected to the internet but that is one hell of a platform with which to deliver education and training.

Fwd: An interesting line on lectures: "Taking the red pill: Sebastian Thrun's candid reflection on the AI course" - http://fm.schmoller.net/2012... (via http://friendfeed.com/sebschm...)

India launches the $45 tablet computer - #skytablet India launches an internet tablet computer for EVERY student priced at $45 What can this do? http://newsblogged.com/video-i...

e-learning delivered as SaaS http://goo.gl/fYBh3 a critical point may have been missed it was never enough to deliver a platform.

Data mining used to improve education - its what many of us think just not what we do - yet.... http://goo.gl/LtYDF

Michael Gove says "education reform does not happen overnight" asking for better computer science teaching http://goo.gl/bBsDW I am not sure which of these statements I find more astonishing?

Learning and skills network and NEC in administration - a sad day http://goo.gl/QP58D

For1 yr old a magazine is an ipad that fails to work http://goo.gl/Apshv #learning

Seriously impressed with the opensource cloud deployment platform - EUCALYPTUS (it stands for Elastic Utility Computing Architecture for Linking Your Programs To Useful Systems) Its ability to interface with Amazon standard API's, support hybrid architectures and opensource, modular nature make it contender RightScale agree http://goo.gl/Yi3It

Khan Academy style courses on Statistics and Artificial intelligence from on the MathematicalMonk Youtube channel, I very much enjoyed this one http://www.youtube.com/user... on Markov models, though it did require the pause button and wikipedia #agilelearning Great material for the 14,000 students starting the online Stanford AI course

Google buys Motorola mobility - well that's an interesting move, #mobile #android Very different corporate cultures, a tidal change I think.

"It's about riffing off, not passing off." Government drops website blocking +1 for common sense http://goo.gl/K79j9

A good list of QR code generators can be found at http://goo.gl/d9tJt Anyone know of a generator that can be used as a webservice. Thanks to @780media

Terrific application of ~Google maps that shows the real-time position of maritime traffic world wide. http://goo.gl/FeoJw #data

Open Access Publishing : All National Academies Press reports currently for sale from their website are to be made FOC as pdf's http://notes.nap.edu/2011... from June 2nd #OER

The social media ecosystem powered by buttons ttp://goo.gl/akb5U (Consider this to be a meta link that points to buttons that link)

BBC technology page reports a prototype network adapter that can handle 26 terabits / second. So that would be the whole of the library of congress transmitted in ten seconds. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news...

Twitter now have a gadget that lets you put twitter feeds onto webpages and blogs. I have just created my first BLEAT (tm) a blog that tweets. To see how to do it yourself look here http://www.toolsandtaxonomy.com/2011...

From mass production to mass collaboration http://blog.irvingwb.com/blog... I like the way this chap thinks. Is it the end of the industrial economy - well something is going on here!

I guess you will have all seen this, but the Google art trip around some of the worlds museums using street view technology impresses http://maps.google.co.uk/maps... Its it as good as going to a museum NO! might it provide a way to visit a museum for millions of people who will never get to go YES! Any one remember the doomsday IVD disk?

Struck by the impact that large scale 1:1 initiatives with technology can have on a nation and continent. I write about South America at http://www.toolsandtaxonomy.com/2010... equally impressive is the Magellan project at http://www.toolsandtaxonomy.com/2010... and the IT@School project in india

Who says the internet stifles creativity one of my sons friends wrote and delivers this http://www.youtube.com/watch...

A solution to international call charges - carry your own 3G cell with you. http://www.dailytech.com/Attocel... very sweet. How long before this is built into the handset itself?

Microsoft have plans to release office as a cloud service with a single vertical market for education http://office365.microsoft.com/en-US... Interesting times

New service to create a topic page from the cloud, recently released http://montage.cloudapp.net/montage...

Distance learning MA in Fine Art now offered by the Open college of the Arts, that's got to be good news http://www.oca-uk.com/news...

Google Chrome 8 released with zero fan-fair under promising and over-delivering. Installed in less that 90 seconds, shut down and brought up again with all the old tabs intact FANTASTIC

Boys like android girls like iphone but its all changing and changing fast [DATA HERE] http://mashable.com/2010...

This is RT from @sotaventure 8 ways technology is improving education ILLOVE number 5 http://mashable.com/2010...

HTML5 site called 20 things I learnt about the internet and Browsers. http://www.20thingsilearned.com/ Using a book and page turn metaphor to demonstrate the web is just wrong, still in this case effective and worth a quick scan if you want a glimpse of the future(Published by the Google CHROME team so as you would expect works best on CHROME)