Wonderfully nerdy talk by Tim Berners-Lee given at TED about how data has been taken control of by the Open Source Community. At TED2009, Tim Berners-Lee called for "raw data now" -- for governments, scientists and institutions to make their data...

Promising Video conferencing tool that I stumbled across this weekend.  It looks perfect for creating an online classroom, a small play ground for a dispersed development team, or pretty much anything else you can think of for this type of application. I...

This tutorial is like a KinderSurprise. It has three things, an introduction to Flash Builder, an introduction to Flex and finally a great introduction to connecting to an AMF service. Also looks like there will finally be something to replace the...

Googling for John Perry's online manifesto brought up this article and interview with Jaron Lanier. Well worth reading and listening into. As for the declaration of independence itself, here you go: Governments of the Industrial World, you...

Just stumbled across this article, claiming that US officials and/or Google are closing in on the hacker(s) responsible for hacking their service. The news being that it probably was a student from a university. I just find that to be such an easy...

Interesting stats...for a mere $4,695.00 USD the whole thing can be yours to read. 2010 Youth Mobile StatisticsView more presentations from Graham Brown. mobile youth report dot...

1. Software is a poor organizing principle for digital production. 2. Digital literacy should reach beyond the limitations of software. 3. Discourse should not be trapped by production technologies. 4. Accommodate and forgive the end user, not the...

The launch of the iPad (a name I still find rather unfortunate) kicked of a flurry of hoorays and boos from all over the web. It has really been quite funny to follow. I do have to admit I too have my problems with the iPad (or rather the iPodTouch which...

stumbled across this wonderfully nerdy talk on Python. The intriguing part is the fact that this is a googler talking to googlers. As I have gone through and experimented my RoR book, and a friend mentioned Python the other day, it reignited my interest....

From what I can see, this toolkit essentially takes the best out of the Codeigniter Database Library and wraps it all in a standalone library that you can port into almost any other PHP application. Definitely worth checking out. I can see this work...