The best use of the internet for teaching skills I’ve seen is The Front Handspring Vault by coach Brian Bakalar of Gymnastics Revolution, Connecticut.
Then check Brian’s photo and photo sequence database of basic skills he calls Gymnastics Interactive.
I just “subscribed” to Warren’s RSS feed on his flickr photo account.
It works!
Whenever Warren adds photos to his public folder on flickr, my RSS reader knows about it.
This way I can stay on top of what is happening with the Silver Springs Sharks soccer team.
You too can subscribe to any flickr account. Click the link at the bottom of the page.
If you were Google, you would be tempted to set-up your own internet. Where you do not have to talk to idiot US Senators or compromise with Communist governments.
But how could they do it?
Partner with a telecom company? Or with a cable TV company?
No, better to set up your own private wireless network to deliver service. Start with key markets (like San Francisco) and build from there.
Of course you need government regulators to award you the rights to the wireless spectrum. Google got the San Francisco contract.
Fueling the talk is a regulatory battle — the network neutrality issue — pitting Internet firms against phone companies AT&T, (T) Verizon Communications, (VZ) and BellSouth. (BLS)
Investor’s Business Daily: Internet, Media Outfits Could Bid For Spectrum
The Cranky Geek is at it again.
This time Dvorak calls Internet Explorer The Great Microsoft Blunder.
Microsoft’s entry into the browser business and its subsequent linking of the browser into the Windows operating system looks to be the worst decision—and perhaps the biggest, most costly gaffe—the company ever made.
Dvorak’s column from PC Magazine
He spake that MS should discontinue IE immediately and invest in Opera.
Dvorak loves controversy.
But this time Dvorak is right.
Click on the (ugly looking) video below for a quick overview:
In China the internet is censored. The Chinese suffer under totalitarian control.
Of course I assume the crazy American Congress can be bought off by lobbyists. They might enact any kind of goofy legislation.
Gladly I live in a free country?
SaveTheInternet.com provides more information.
hhmmmm …
They claim Canada’s least favourite company — Telus— blocked Internet customers from visiting a website sympathetic to workers with whom Telus was negotiating.
And Shaw, a major Canadian cable company, charges an extra $10 a month to subscribers who dare to use a competing Internet telephone service.
HEY. Those are my Internet Service Providers!
Who is defending net neutrality in Canada?
I am a big fan of wikipedia. There is no better example of what can happen if you simply get out of the way. Let people do what they want.
The much publicized problems with the site? I’ve never had a glitch. The few minor mistakes that irked me, I corrected.
Wikipedia is the encyclopedia that anyone can edit.
Now I stumbled on to Wikitravel.org
Interesting. But why not simply include all this travel content in wikipedia?
35.3 Million weblogs (blogs) are tracked on Technorati.com — the number doubling about every 6 months.
This is no fad.
I know one geek who searches Technorati because Google is too slow at finding up-to-the-second information.
Google Maps, Yahoo Maps, Mapquest, Ask Maps and Microsoft Windows Live Local all have good features.
One reviewer found that Yahoo Maps was the best service, hands down. (Yahoo covers only the USA and Canada.)
TechCrunch » Comparing the Mapping Services
Personally I am more interested in Google Earth, software you need to download to your computer. It is a novelty now, but as resolution improves world wide, it will be fantastic.
Fox, ABC, CBS and NBC are all struggling to find the new paradigm. (Haven’t heard that cliche in a while, have you?)
iTunes got it going. Disney is doing some interesting things.
TV is terrible, as is. It will change for sure. Soon.
Certainly programs will be on demand, any time, with or without commercials. Certainly you will have options to subscribe or pay as you go.
Cult shows with a small, loyal following will be financially feasible. Hiking TV? Gymnastics coaching TV?
I can hardly wait.
Google is putting in free (ad supported) wireless internet in San Francisco. Can my city be far behind?
I believe access to information will set us free.
Now … when will Google release their own version of the internet?
Rick McCharles 