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Jun 11

Learn to Adapt Links for June 11th

by Jeff Kelly

Disney.com Breaks New Ground Streaming Full-Length Movies Online for the First Time Ever - Distribution models for media continue to evolve: "The full-length films will then be available for free streaming on Disney.com (www.Disney.com/WonderfulWorld) for the week following the network presentation."
Is Google Making Us Stupid? - Nicholas Carr in The Atlantic makes an interesting assessment of "What the Internet is doing to our brains".
LearnHub Relaunches Its Social Learning Network - Jason Kincaid gives an update on LearnHub and other sites trying to leverage Web 2.0 social concepts for learning.

Apr 15

by Jeff Kelly

These are my links for April 14th through April 15th:

WatchingTV Online - Blog I just discovered tracking the move of television to the Web. If their theme is correct, this will be a "threat to big media". No saying how the convergence game will play out, but converge we will!
The Mobile Web Was Born Only Yesterday - I agree wholeheartedly with Michael: "So I disagree that The Mobile Web is dead. For many of us it is just coming alive." Just look at the use of mobil outside the US. The future of the Web is a mobile one.
Social Aggregators Emerge To Manage Digital Lifestyles [Dion Hinchcliffe’s Web 2.0 Blog] - Dion's wonderfully brief post about the rise of social aggregation. This HAD to happen as social fatigue sets in. These will be a model for the future of managing one of our auxillary brains (our social graph(s))

Feb 18

by Jeff Kelly

These are my links for February 18th:

The Pirates Can’t Be Stopped - An interesting look at the seemingly futile battle against piracy. This has huge implications for life as we know it. We have had IP since the first copyright law in 1663. How can we adapt to a new model that will still reward our “starving artists”?
First Look: Kluster’s Market Approach to Crowdsourcing - A nice article on the forthcoming Kluster.com. Sounds like a nice spin on crowdsourcing plus a predictive market for the ideas generated plus financial incentive. As these markets grow people need to learn how to harness their potential