Nat Torkington
@gnat
2009-07-02
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- UNESCO book: Open Educational Resources -- UNESCO's first openly licensed publication, a collection of papers and reports in the area of Open Educational Resources. (via glynmoody on Twitter)
- ETSI 2.0 -- Paul Downey ventures into the belly of the telco beast and gives them both barrels. The whole thing is great--his talk was one of the best overviews of "how we think on the Web" I've seen. I can only imagine the sound it made as it bounced off the thick dinosaur hides of the attendees. I was reminded of the old, apocryphal quote from a Kodak executive dismissing digital cameras and their poor quality with "people love photos", when in reality it's the taking of photos that people love. Sometimes it's hard for an incumbent with large sunk costs and a vested interest in business as usual to foresee and embrace change. Indeed for a telco or large commercial software vendor the best way to predict the future is to prevent it. (via benjaminblack on Twitter)
- Asia Pacific FTTH Market Study -- notable for Hong Kong's discovery with fibre-to-the-home customers: Uplink traffic is 3 times of downlink traffic. That link appears dead, but Google has it cached. (via previous link)
- Shownar -- tracks blogs and Twitter plus other microblogging services, finds people talking about BBC television and radio, shows trends in appealing ways. Made by Schulze and Webb (and Dopplr's delicious Matt Jones), more detail available that you should read.
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