learn2sign uses Facebook
Today’s Facebook community find — learn2sign NZSL!:
Welcome! learn2sign is for anyone who wants to have a go learning New Zealand’s third official language, New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL). …
Mission:
To promote the teaching and learning of New Zealand Sign Language.
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October 5, 2008 3 Comments
Facebook: For yoof. And wrinklies
Everybody knows that social networking is popular with the younger set. But every generalisation has its exceptions — meet Ivy Bean, 102 years old:
Ivy Bean is a great-grandmother with a difference. At 102 years old she has joined the social networking revolution and become the oldest person on Facebook.
The former mill worker, who was born in Bradford in 1905, showed an interest in the website, after hearing care workers at her home talk about the phenomenon.
… The world has changed radically during Ivy’s lifetime. When she was born … telegrams were the fastest way of communicating and a national telephone network was still seven years away. Ivy would have to wait 46 years until the first computer was invented.
… Care home manager Pat Wright said: ‘We try to keep all our residents independent by letting them use the computer.’
[Via : Meet Ivy Bean - the world's oldest Facebooker aged 102 | Mail Online.]
August 24, 2008 No Comments
The next 5,000 days of the web
While the Internet has been around for decades, the web is only around 15 years old.
A decade ago anyone suggesting that we’d all have instant access to vast stores of information, or satellite images of the planet, or near real-time photos from an event half a world away, for free, from a device we hold easily in one hand would have been thought a wild dreamer. Today it’s just reality.
We use laptop computers, large and tiny, cellphones, games machines, home computers, to connect to the Internet, sharing text, sounds and images instantly with billions of others.
All that in 15 years. But what’s next? What will we be doing in another 15 years? People often talk about what may happen next year, or even, at a stretch, the year after that, but Kevin Kelly stretches his mind , and ours, with a longer view:
At the 2007 EG conference, Kevin Kelly shares a fun stat: The World Wide Web, as we know it, is only 5,000 days old. Now, Kelly asks, how can we predict what’s coming in the next 5,000 days?
Download his 20 minute talk from Kevin Kelly on the next 5,000 days of the web | Video on TED.com to find out what he sees in our future. The talk is around 70Mb, so you need broadband.
He offers interesting, and challenging, ideas. What do you think of what he suggests?
July 31, 2008 No Comments
Connected to a community with Twitter
Bill Thompson of the BBC writes of Twitter:
Like many fast-growing services Twitter is far from perfect. The site sometimes creaks and falls over under the load, the interface can be confusing and sometime tweets don’t get through.
It is also a dangerous distraction from work, encouraging micro-conversations and followups and witty rejoinders when articles have to be edited, code checked and projects planned.
But as I sit here writing this I feel connected to a community of people, feel that we share a space that none of the social network sites can conjure up, a space that is both here and not here, somewhere between offline and online.
March 23, 2008 No Comments
