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Linkeracy 12 October 2008

Test the strength of your email security – CNET check out how easy it is for someone else to recover YOUR password.

Lifehacker’s hivemind give you the best five media converters but …

UPDATE: MPEG StreamClip from Squared Five is an amazingly excellent tool to

to open and play most movie formats including MPEG files or transport streams; [...]

The Media of Their Times

Every week a new webtool pops up. This week I watched a short video about Dabble DB which promises to combine “the best of group spreadsheets, custom databases, and intranet web applications into a new way to manage and share your information on the web.”

Cool.

Then I read about getting back to basics and teaching kids [...]

Tablets in Education

Last week New Zealand hit the edu-geek press with the news that a school in Wellington is trialling using Tablet PCs amongst their year five and sixes.

NZ Herald story

DigiOps Website

There has been lots to say about this project and about some of the dollars that are being [...]

Content Sharing

Andy Carvin has blogged about Jimmy Wales’ (the founder of the Wikipdeia) latest project:

He also announced a new project called Wikiversity. It will serve as an online center for the creation and use of free learning materials and activities. It will create and host a range of free content materials, multilingual learning materials, for all [...]

Conversation

David Warlick has condensed the construct of Web 2.0 into three simple points:

1. Content is Conversation

This, I like. The conversation is strong and it is often (:) ) lucid. The media of the conversations invites even more conversation. This reminds me of something said by our Canadian visitors last week. They talked about kids publishing [...]