• Dan Barber: How I fell in love with a fish | Video on TED.com – A great video from Dan Barber gives food for thought (ouch – bad pun) about sustainability and how we should give more thought to where we get what we eat.
• Cheat Sheet For Social Media | Online Media Gazette – An interesting "cheat sheet" from Dre McLellan on how companies can leverage the various social media sites. Needs some review and validation…

• Technology Review: Market Watch: Convergence Is King – On in a series of articles Tech Review has on "The Future of Media". Convergence marches on. A great summary quote from the article: "The key technical characteristic of what works is the ability to facilitate consumers' desire to read, watch, or listen to any content they want, anywhere, anytime."
• Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python – An educational diversion for the budding computer programmers in your family!

• Disney’s Going Digital: Buy Once, Watch Anywhere – The slow boat of convergence is picking up speed.
• U.S. Navy CIO: Social Media Should Be Part of Military IT Standard – U.S. Navy CIO Rob Carey wrote that social media is a resource for the American military that should be used to build trust and collaborate, both within and outside the organization.
• How the Internet is Changing the Way We Will Watch TV: Scientific American – The slow boat of convergence continues to chug along…
• Gartner: Loosen up on Social Networks, Security | Deep Tech – CNET News – The reality of enabling social networks marches on. From the article: "…corporate computing departments shouldn't block social networking and security shouldn't completely lock down communications with the outside world. And even if information technology authorities wanted to shut down such activity, they couldn't. "

• The Partnership for 21st Century Skills – Home – For the K-12 set: A wonderful site advocating the improvement of our education system to include 21st-century skills. From the site: "The Partnership for 21st Century Skills has developed a unified, collective vision for 21st century learning that can be used to strengthen American education." They hit the nail on the head by stressing Creativity and Innovation Skills; Critical Thinking and Problem Solving Skills, and Communication and Collaboration Skills.
• Moving towards the 2.0 “movie-going” experience – Ian Da Silva poses a thoughtful question about the future of movie distribution. This parallels many of the "converged" purchase models that I have discussed with my media clients. It will be interesting to see how long it is before you purchase your ticket at a theater and are given the option to pay an extra fee to download the video when it is released online…

• 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.

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))

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