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Just watched two episodes of gestalten.tv. great podcaston arts& design, architecture. Hgih quality produced intensively communicating the message.

This is a very nice analysis of the news reporting about current and daily happening catastrophies which calculates a news death ration for swine flu and tuberculosis.

David Merril from MIT Media Lab gave a very nice presentation on Siftables at TED. Watch it here.

GPS mission is a new app on the iPhone and a web based application. It says the world is your playground, you have an online mission editor with which you can edit the mission flow, bonus items users can collect, define photo tasks, and edit other details. You have direct access to the map and can connect these things to locations. This is quite similar to what we worked on some years ago in the Remote Access to Field Trip Project (Beside the Videconferenceing things). Nice interface on the iPhone, well used combination of gaming location based services and multi interface stuff.

You can share and distribute your missions with others.
Try it out! Soon you can play some of my mission in Bonn if you come to visit ;-)

http://gpsmission.com/

enkin supports users not only in map, and 3D mode but also in live mode. Basically you can walk around in your environment and take the camera view to look at and see the placemarks embedded. This gives interesting option for seamlessly integration annotation information in the live environment.

See http://www.enkin.net/ also have a look at the enkin blog http://enkinblog.blogspot.com/

Great work !

Just exploring a bit hyperspace and found some interesting starting points for nice work on multitouch user interfaces and audio? reacTable, very interesting, colaborative sound interface.

watch this movie about the faces of young gamers immersion in games.

In Halberstadt in Germany a piece of John Cage is performed at the moment. The piece is called ORGAN2/ASLSP (as slow as possible). The duration of the overall performance will be 639 years! Very interesting idea, so generations can talk over the piece and talk to each other. We (our generation could today listen to the 6th change in sound in the masterpiece. Unfortunately I will not be able to be there. Probably for the 7th change.

This week I have been talking at EduMedia Conference in Salzburg. I have been invited to give a keynote and talked about changes in information technology for learning, changed usage patterns when moving from web1.0 to web2.0. One of the interesting things is how freely people give away personal data today while it was one of the main topics in user modelling research how to acquire user information build personal profiles and use that for adaptation trying to avoid the coldstart problem .

I met several very interesting and inspiring people including Jay Cross, Steve Wheeler, Graham Atwell and also participated in a interesting TenCompetence session about self-organized learning with interesting contributions.

Furthermore I met a former colleague Andreas Auwaerter beeing really active in podcasting for education, nice thing!

Hi all,
today I came across http://de.woobby.com nice idea all around ranking of things. everybody can create rankings and rank things, the best pub, the best song of a band….