Being freed from regular time constraints…getting round to reading some of the stuff have bookmarked

Collaborating with [1] Surfaces sphere , [2] Concept browsers of the future from Mozilla Labs, [3] Eco phones, 100 days in China as a [4] mobile nomad, an invitation to collaborate on understanding Islam through [5] virtual worlds, thoughts on [6] blogging in Iran blogging within [7] HE, in Iran, an award winning Palestinian journalist [8] arriving back and facing Israeli soldiers, [9] Eight stages of social development, Enabling Personal [10] Mobile Applications through Semantic Web Services, Nokia’s semantic applications [11] toolkit, Adobe [12] Mobile Demos, Digital Activism [13] in action, online village volunteering education ideas in the [14] Nabuur neighbourhoods, [15] transforming a waste heap into a farm in Kenya.

A whole bunch of stuff on mobility - Michiel de Lange’s [16] research writing, about mobility and nomadic projects, 2 posts on MAMK re the recent Economist [17] mobility special report and Jan Chipchase [18] digital nomad experiment, an [19] article about IP mobility and the idea of seamless roaming, as opposed to connecting the dots (this article was written in 2003 but some of these issues still unresolved); and finally a green paper from the European Commission about [20] migration, mobility and opportunities for EU education systems

Finally, a interesting discussion on which words to put as [21] hyperlink text (it appears that even in 2008, those with different levels of web experience have different opinions) and [22] 20 strategies to defeat the urge to do useless tasks.

Before I forget…

Carpentry videos - tried one with 3 mobile phones at 3 different angles showing various drilling ‘actions’ when making a DVD cabinet. The angles were fine and it all looked ok, but was unable to get a decent volume for both voice whilst drill was on and whilst talking ‘inside’ half a cabinet (if that makes sense) without a microphone and can’t think of a way in which to record with a separate microphone. If you hold one of the phones or even one phone close enough to get the ideal volume, then you can’t get the right angle for showing hands using a tool - it is too close. The plan was to use mobile phone for quick informal learning ‘pieces’ which this would not achieve, so putting videos on hold indefinitely for now.

Second Life presentation - a few weeks ago temporarily put some info up about a presentation from a student at Surrey who did a presentation of her machine ethics dissertation, in Second Life - to cut a long story short, we don’t have video / machinima footage due to total lack of notice and total lack of ever trying before on my part with a laptop that doesn’t have capability to do both Rather than put up bits and pieces which have since removed (e.g. the text chat with context of Anna answering the questions in Second Life is interesting but without real context), Anna VartapetianceSalmasi or Dr Lee Gillam - hopefully both, should be presenting this again at the Immersive Worlds workshop in Coventry in October and there is a possibility that Anna will be repeating the presentation in Second Life later this month.