Google: Facts and Figures

March 2, 2010

Pingdom, the awesome web site monitoring company, has created a massive infographic on Google. The figure I find most interesting is that 50% of Google’s products were created in the famed 20% employee interest-based work time. It shows that investing in people’s interests pays off. I can’t help but equate the idea to the strengths [...]

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Tagged on the Web 03/02/2010

March 2, 2010

http://www.ams.org/featurecolumn/archive/harmonic.html
Great article on Pixar’s Use of Harmonic Functions. Dripping with geekery.
tags: pixar, education

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Webside Chat with Lawrence Lessig

March 2, 2010

Lawrence Lessig, the Internet’s favorite lawyer, gave a great talk at the OpenVideoAlliance webside chat on culture and creativity. You may have seen some of this before at his TED talk. He updates that talk and includes more commentary on the culture of creativity of today. You can catch it at blip.tv or watch below. [...]

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Today I Learned (2/22/10)

February 22, 2010

All the batteries on Earth can store only 10 minutes of the world’s electricity needs.
Source: Bill Gates on energy: Innovating to Zero.

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Today I learned (2/21/10)…

February 21, 2010

After seeing the Today I Learned sub-reddit at reddit.com I thought I would post a few of the random things I learn on the Internet everyday. Maybe it will make a good category for edutim in the future and get me posting more. These posts will be short and to the point. Here we go…
Today [...]

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Tagged on the Web 02/20/2010

February 20, 2010

Educators – what would you most like to see next in OpenSim? | justincc.org
tags: education, virtualworlds, opensim

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Tagged on the Web 02/19/2010

February 19, 2010

Educational Games Research » Exploring the Renaissance Through Videogames
tags: education, Learning, Video games

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Tagged on the Web 02/17/2010

February 17, 2010

#40 – Why smart people defend bad ideas « Scott Berkun
tags: education

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My Mouse’s Day

February 5, 2010

This image represents my day. It is a track of my mouse movements from 8:30am to 4pm. The circle are pointer stops (not clicks). It is a fascinating look into my work day. It looks like I use the scroll bar a lot. That would be because my mouse wheel stinks.
Trying this out it is [...]

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Tagged on the Web 02/03/2010

February 3, 2010

Hard Fun
tags: papert, Learning, education, fun

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