- ARCHIVE / Cool Sites
- Future Education
An interactive map, commissioned by the KnowledgeWorks Foundation, itemizing the factors that are likely to influence public education in the next decade. It is divided into five elements—a two-dimensional space listing Drivers and Impact Areas, and the factors classified as trends, hot spots and dilemmas.
- Blip
IU School of Informatics grad Erik Pukinskis tweeted something interesting just now—a link to the “Twitter for music,” a new music sharing service called Blip. If I can let the channel play in the background and hear the music others feed me, this could change the way I listen to music.
- Battletweets
Like many, I got some twam (twitter + spam) on March 20 last week pointing me to Battletweets. I didn’t follow them initially, partly because their site didn’t have any information. Now it does, so now I do … at least for a little while. Whether the new Twitter game that is currently in development becomes a source of noise or community remains to be seen.
- Iterating Startup Weekend
The circumstances of our own weekend project are still officially under wraps and in the process of being resolved—slowly—but the day has finally arrived for the next installment of Startup Weekend, this time with a return to the place where it all started. About 70 people begin pitching ideas for startup projects in bulk Friday night at the sixteenth Startup Weekend event since last July .. this time, with new rules.
- Twitter in Plain English
CommonCraft does it again. Twitter is deep enough that the LeFevers could do a couple follow-ups.
- Twitosphere
Over the weekend, I finally made good on a months-long pledge to build a website that would archive tweets from local twitterers. The Indiana Twitosphere uses a WordPress platform and Charles Johnson’s great RSS plug-in, FeedWordPress, to keep tabs on the individual contributions of over 150 known Hoosier twitterers.
- One Million Twitterers
In March 2007, Twitter became the darling of the South by Southwest conference in Austin, Texas. An award-winning presence there launched the microblogging service into the Web 2.0 stratosphere, leading to capital investments and a community of developers and fans. By the time SXSW returns next month (March 7-16), Twitter almost certainly will have surpassed one million members.
Bruno Peeters of Twitter Facts projects 1 million twitterers by March