A UBC professor is embracing Wikipedia as a platform for academic publication. More universities should be taking this approach.
“VANCOUVER, Canada (AFP) - Wikipedia, the upstart Internet encyclopedia that most universities forbid students to use, has suddenly become a teaching tool for professors.
Recently, university teachers have swapped student term papers […]
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PMOG lets you use the internet as a medium for a game of treasure hunting. An interesting use of the medum and an example of how you can re-claim your browsing experience.
“PMOG is the Passively Multiplayer Online Game. To play, you’ll need to Get Firefox and Add Our Extension.
This game […]
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The Globe and Mail’s Mathew Ingram wrote about Twitter’s news breaking success today as well. If you don’t read Mathew’s blog it’s worth checking out for a Canadian perspective on technology. Here’s what Mathew had to say today:
“Like many others, I woke up this morning to news of a disaster in China: […]
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This is a pretty cool looking new product:
New versions of the Eye-Fi hitting the market today. Now available in the original model (at $100) that allows online and local file uploads, the new versions are desktop upload only ($80) and a new model that will work with paid hotspots as well as do geo-tagging […]
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Twitterers the world over are changing the way news travels. Chinese microbloggers issued some of the first reports of the earthquake that hit the country last night. But the accounts tell the story from a perspective that is unlike anything you’ll see on the evening news.
“all is good around here. i think […]
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