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Artists & Designers You Should Know

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2/13/2013 

IMA, Thanks so much for the invite to contribute content to this blog. I hereby propose this post to be an ongoing work in progress. Your active participation will make this resource a friendly place to check reality while also finding energy and inspiration.

I would like to share the works of  3 individuals who are influencing me big time:

2. Zach Gage  – http://stfj.net/ 
3. Cory Arcangle – http://www.coryarcangel.com/
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NYTimes to “stop printing sometime in the future…”

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/09/arthur-sulzberger-we-will_n_710251.html

The publisher of the New York Times acknowledged Wednesday that the newspaper will go out of print — eventually.

“We will stop printing the New York Times sometime in the future, date TBD,” Arthur Sulzberger told an audience at a London media summit Wednesday.

Sulzberger’s statement came in response to a prediction that the newspaper would go out-of-print by 2015.

“This sounds obvious, but it’s a big deal,” Business Insider founder Henry Blodget wrote. “The economics of the online news business will not support the infrastructure or newsroom that the printed paper supports. Unless the New York Times Company can come up with a miracle new digital revenue stream, therefore, it will eventually have to be restructured and downsized (or sold to a deep-pocketed Sydney Harmon-type [sic] who runs it at a loss out of love).”

Early next year, the newspaper will introduce a metered-model paywall to its website, which Sulzberger said “has the benefit of allowing our millions of readers who come to us through search engine to still find our content.”

HMHFuse – Interactive textbooks….

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The Pilot program…

Beginning on September 8, 2010, four school districts in California embarked on a partnership with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt designed to revolutionize the way students access their core curriculum. Approximately 400 students in San Francisco, Long Beach, Riverside, and Fresno school districts will access their entire Algebra 1 course on a touchscreen, handheld device. HMH Fuse: Algebra 1 features the award-winning core content of the Holt McDougal Algebra 1 configured for mobile devices.

A control group of students in the districts is using the traditional Holt McDougal Algebra 1 textbook. The pilot will compare the two groups in the areas of student achievement and attitudes about learning.

We’ll keep up with their progress here and use the results in the launch of HMH Fuse: Algebra 1 in January 2011. Check back to see how they are doing!

Checkout the website and be sure to view the video…

The DaTorre Laser Pen….

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This came up 8 years ago in class. Jackie DaTorre and Diana LoBosco were duking it out over whether or not this was a good idea… now it is real. Amazing…maybe it is the water in Humanities Hall…

New software turns paper into an inexpensive digital tablet

Livescribe’s digital ‘smart’ pens soon will be able to stream written text to a computer in real time

From staff reports

Featured on eSchool News, Higher Ed, Mobile and Handheld Technologies, Technologies, Top NewsAug 26th, 2010

Livescribe's Echo smartpen aims to help students take complete and accurate notes.Livescribe’s Echo smart pen aims to help students take complete and accurate notes.

Over the last year, Livescribe has promoted its digital “smart” pen as an educational tool not just for capturing and recording class notes, but also sharing these notes online in a technique known as “pencasting.” Now, the latest version of the company’s smart pen, called the Echo, adds more digital storage capability, and new software coming this fall will enable the pen to stream all notes taken live, in real time, to a computer—turning special dotted paper into an inexpensive digital tablet.

In a recent demonstration for an eSchool News reporter, company founder and CEO Jim Marggraff showed how the technology could be useful for instruction. As a user jots down notes on the special paper, these notes are recorded in the pen’s memory and also streamed live to a computer, where they can be displayed for an entire class to see in real time. (For now, the pen must be connected to the computer via a USB cable.)

“Livescribe’s mission is to enhance the capture, access, and sharing of written and spoken information to improve communication, collaboration, productivity, and learning,” Marggraff said in a statement.

A number of companies have created digital “smart” pens in recent years: tools that can digitize handwriting and even convert writing into word-processing text. Developers say students who use the pens to capture and upload their notes to computers for review could perform better in school. The pens also are a more convenient option for students who typically carry their laptops to class to take notes.

3D TVs without the glasses – And More…fromTPiazza

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Not to sound like a “know-it-all” but after Philips had that Viral Video of their 3D TV at some obscure tech convention (2+years ago) I was kind of surprised that glasses in the living room was still the plan of companies like Samsung.

However, I’m not surprised after seeing this commercial:

It’s obvious from the, omission of glasses, that they just wanted to be the first to offer 3D in the living room…

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Nokia wants to use 3D in their mobile devices (Unclear of whether they meant real 3D or 3D like an iPod/iPad until they mentioned the possibility of Hologramssss?!)

Mobile Youtube? Finally…

HTML 5 might not disappear, so soon… This iPad version may keep it alive for some time.

Galaxy Tab (Running Android OS) = Competition for iPad = Good IMO

New iPod??? Better not be a let down like the iPad’s Anti-Climactic Revealing — (Don’t Hate Me, “Uncle Pat”) <— Do they really call you that???

Update on inkling – amazing breakthrough in ebooks…

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Inkling brings textbooks to Apple’s iPad, wins funding from Sequoia

By Frank Michael Russell

frussell@mercurynews.com

Posted: 08/20/2010 09:43:09 AM PDT

Updated: 08/20/2010 09:02:39 PM PDT
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San Francisco startup Inkling’s app puts biology and other college… ( Courtesy of Inkling )

Inkling, a San Francisco startup that provides college textbooks for the iPad, on Friday released its app for Apple’s mobile device and said it received funding in a round led by Menlo Park venture capital firm Sequoia Capital.

The amount of the investment wasn’t disclosed, but a company statement said Kapor Capital, Sherpalo Ventures and Felicis Ventures also participated.

“Inkling has produced a groundbreaking platform for interactive content publishing in a market that’s primed for innovation,” Sequoia partner Bryan Schreier said in the news release. Schreier and former Netscape Chief Financial Officer Peter Currie joined Inkling’s board of directors.

Inkling, founded in 2009, is putting titles from publishers Cengage Learning, John Wiley & Sons, McGraw-Hill and Wolters Kluwer on the iPad. Unlike printed textbooks, Inkling’s app will include features such as multimedia and allow classmates to share notes.

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AT&T Business Directory Relaunches With Search And Social Focus

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Full story here….

by Laurie Sullivan, Yesterday, 7:19 PM

AT&T’s business directory reentered the online market Thursday with the launch of its new Web site, complete with geo-location targeting, social services through Facebook and partnerships all with the aim of turning the portal into a community.The focus remains on local businesses and partners.

The homepage, stamped with the new “YP” brand and tagline “Click Less. Live More,” highlights YP’s goal to help consumers easily discover ways to live locally.

Data supports the service. Search algorithms and personalization bring the site up to date. The rewritten search technology running in the background identifies the term “restaurant” and location when someone does a query for local places to eat in Los Angeles, for example. Depending on the location of the query, the engine will determine how far the person might want to travel before arriving at their destination. The query takes into consideration ratings, hours of operations, credit card options and more.

Bill Gates Predicts Technology Will Make ‘Place-Based’ Colleges Less Important in 5 Years

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By Jeff Young – Full story – Chronicle of Higher Education 8.9.10

‘Place-based colleges’ are good for parties, but are becoming less crucial for learning thanks to the Internet, said the Microsoft founder Bill Gates at a conference on Friday.

“Five years from now on the Web for free you’ll be able to find the best lectures in the world. It will be better than any single university,” he argued at the Techonomy conference in Lake Tahoe, Calif. “College, except for the parties, needs to be less place-based.”

An attendee captured the remarks with a shaky hand-held camera and posted the clip on YouTube.

“After all, what are we trying to do? We’re trying to take education that today the tuition is, say, $50,000 a year so over four years—a $200,000 education—that is increasingly hard to get because there’s less money for it because it’s not there, and we’re trying to provide it to every kid who wants it,” Mr. Gates said. “And only technology can bring that down, not just to $20,000 but to $2,000. So yes, place-based activiy in that college thing will be five times less important than it is today.”