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Summify – the answer to information overload?

Jane Hart

Summify is a service that creates a periodic summary of the most relevant news stories, from all of your social networks, and delivers it by email and on the web. “Summify distills the social web, boiling down the torrent of daily information into a summary of the top five or ten most important and relevant stories each day.&#.

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The silos start to tumble.

Learning with e's

I have visions of midnight raids on unsuspecting farms and torrents of grain falling down from monstrously huge (and protected) storage areas. The question for consideration is 'what impact has Web 2.0 The impact of Web 2.0 had on institutionalised learning and training'. It's the end of the walled garden folks.

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Weapon of mass detraction

Learning with e's

Galper was keynote speaker at the High Ed Web 2009 conference held in Milwaukee, USA earlier in the year. Very quickly the harsh comments began to pop up on the Twitter stream, and very soon they became a torrent of abuse, disparaging remarks that took on a more and more personal hue, turning the event into a 'car crash keynote'.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Lets go ahead and solve the future of publishing right now.

Mark Oehlert

Turns out that there is this site, Textbook Torrents, that is using BitTorrent to distribute free copies of expensive textbooks. Posted by: boete hypotheek | March 16, 2009 at 01:50 AM I predict an outcome similar to Napster for sites like Textbook Torrent. books futures Web 2.0 Thanks for this update.

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Keen as mustard?

Learning with e's

No, I am not making it up - but I thought, how very appropriate, given the wintry torrents of rain outside. I am in the middle of reading Andrew Keen's The Cult of the Amateur - in which he pours mustard all over Web 2.0, Tags: Andrew Keen social software Web 2.0 Would you believe it. Well I never. but not half as amusing.

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Turn Training into a Profit Center – Here’s How

eLearning 24-7

Charge for webinars – The days of a hybrid model where you did ILT (seminars) and did some webinars (via web conferencing) are gone. On-Demand is far better with usage, than going only live – whereas numbers will drop due to being on too many web meetings. In the end though, webinars are money makers. .

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): The Tool Kit Edition

Mark Oehlert

100 websites you should know and use (via the TED Blog ) 13 Online Generators for Web 2.0 Design (via CSS Juice ) GoWare (personal mobile portal) Article on Bitlet (Bit Torrent extension for Firefox) via Webware Animoto looks very cool. books futures Web 2.0 Clay Shirky My latest additions to del.icio.us