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Written by Enniv Zarf
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Wednesday, 20 June 2007 |
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Sponsored by:  By Peter Griffin
It was with great anticipation that I settled into a seat at the Paramount Theatre in Wellington this week to listen to a bunch of internet experts debate a very live topic - whether the new wave of websites gathered under the Web 2.0 banner is "all fizz and no substance". The debate could have gone anywhere and indeed it ranged widely. "People just aren't that technology savvy," argued Radio New Zealand producer and head of the "fizz" team, Mark Cubey. READ IT ALL HERE: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category...
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Wednesday, 20 June 2007 |
Getting Lost in the Great Indoors
By Donna St. George
Linda Pelzman appreciates the beauty of the outdoor world, sometimes pulling her children into the yard to gaze at a full moon or peer into a dense fog. An educator and founder of a summer camp, she only wishes her enthusiasm was fully shared.
On a recent nature walk near her home in Gaithersburg, her younger son, 6, was unimpressed, pleading, "I just want to go back to civilization." Her older son, at 13, has made it clear he prefers PlayStation.
Paul Hefner, 10, and Kevin Wood, 11, enjoy the trampoline in the Hefner family's large back yard in Great Falls. Paula Hefner, Paul's mother, said that her children play sports but that no one in the family uses the yard very often. "When they come home, it's inside time," she said.
"Kids don't think about going outside like they used to, and unless there is some scheduled activity, I don't think they know what to do outdoors anymore," Pelzman said.
Pelzman's view is shared by a growing number of children's advocates, environmentalists, business executives and political leaders who fear that this might be the first generation of "indoor children," largely disconnected from nature.
Concerns about long-term consequences -- affecting emotional well-being, physical health, learning abilities, environmental consciousness -- have spawned a national movement to "leave no child inside." In recent months, it has been the focus of Capitol Hill hearings, state legislative action, grass-roots projects, a U.S. Forest Service initiative to get more children into the woods and a national effort to promote a "green hour" in each day.
READ IT ALL HERE:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
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Wednesday, 20 June 2007 |
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Sponsored by: ARTIFICIAL ISLE – Saturday’s show featured nineteen designers, each presenting multiple outfits. Caliah Lyon, the show’s producer, picked a variety of designers for this show ranging from the well known and established to new discoveries she hopes to introduce to Second Life.
Lyon admits that narrowing the field of designers is never easy. “When it comes to designer selection I go by word of mouth and recommendations from people in the industry,” she says. “I usually seek to balance more established designers with newer talent - the one criteria for this show that I was inflexible about was quality.”
The designers and outfits shown at the Summer Show opted for a traditional showing of summer clothing for men and women from the fanciful to formal, from the slightly daring to the comfy casual.
The stores featured included Bossa Nova, Calico Creations, Canimal, Casa Del Shai, Coconut Ice, Gearshift, Lala Moon, Popfuzz, Redgrave, Relika, Renegade, Savvy, Silentsparrow, Simone, Tete a Pied, Tres Blas, Truth, Tuli and Zagoskin.
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http://www.slnn.com/...
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Wednesday, 20 June 2007 |
India may still be a blip in the avatar world, but it could all change in two months with desi portals allowing you to don an online personality
SUMAN TARAFDAR
Going to space, it looks like, will be within the realms of possibility—even without the safe-full of dollars that you took to be the primary qualification for such a jaunt. For the mother of all space bodies, NASA is planning a partnership that could offer a powerful new tool to increase global participation in NASA’s exploration agenda, one day allowing the public to take part in returning to the Moon, future missions to Mars, the asteroids and beyond-all without the need of a spacesuit.
Even if this seems farfetched to you, do take notice that this part of the planet is moving on too. Little Ankita may be little in your eyes, and leading a home-school-McDonald’s life, but take a good hard look at her life. For she’s been around from London to LA, Tokyo to Timbuktu, this eight year old has done the rounds. And yep, without spending much of her parents’ money either. For this young travel buff has been doing it through her avatar, Globetrotter. Average Indian parent won’t have the foggiest of idea of what Ankita, or indeed her friends, virtual or otherwise, are up to. India may still just be a blip on Second Life, but many of us will soon don an online personality, feel experts (for this extremely new field, just about anyone who has heard could be classified as one). Several leading Indian portals are toying with the idea. Rediff and Zapak, for instance, expect to be ready in about two months.
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http://www.financialexpress.com...
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Written by Enniv Zarf
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Tuesday, 19 June 2007 |
Sponsored by:By Jimmy guterman
Today we're publishing the new issue of Release 2.0. What follows is drawn from my editor's letter in this issue. If you read anything this month other than this issue of Release 2.0, make it Jonathan Zittrain’s Saving the Internet in the June Harvard Business Review. (Disclosure: I do some work for HBR’s parent company.) So lively you might be surprised it was written by a law professor, the article is wildly ambitious, ranging from Wile E. Coyote metaphors to a meditation on the nature of Netizenship. Zittrain’s main argument is that “generativity,” our ability to create via the Net, is the most exciting—and worrisome—aspect of the Net. Indeed, what makes the Net great is also precisely what makes it so dangerous. And, despite the libertarian perspective of many prominent Netizens, many thinkers believe that the virtual world is becoming increasingly similar to the real one in that appropriate laws, or at least agreed-upon rules, are necessary for the Net to survive in its open form. If the Internet can be ruined (by everything from criminals to overzealous politicians responding to those criminals), then how can it be saved from that ruin? We have arrived at what Yochai Benkler, in The Wealth of Networks, refers to as “a moment of opportunity and challenge.” READ IT ALL HERE: http://radar.oreilly.com/archives...
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Written by Enniv Zarf
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Tuesday, 19 June 2007 |
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Sponsored by:  By Steve Ranger
Looking at someone's digital personality - made up of IM, email, avatars and social networking - is like looking in a broken mirror, says Steve Ranger. You can see bits and pieces but not the whole. Which isn't helpful if you are trying to do business... I've been to a couple of press conferences recently where I have behaved - frankly - appallingly. I've appeared out of nowhere, ignored people, refused to sit down and wandered around while the speakers were on stage. READ IT ALL HERE: http://comment.silicon.com/steveranger...
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