If E-mail had been around before the telephone was invented people would have said "hey, forget e-mail – with this new telephone invention I can actually talk to people” – Anon   I am mid-article writing with two fabulous women, Marge and Brenda, on the benefits of telephone as a medium for global conversations and learning. [...]

Such a yummy site: full of cool maps, visually representing a number of complex things, simply. For example: This example is "Walrus - an interactive visualization tool that allows the analyst to view massive graphs from any position. The graph is projected inside a 3D sphere using a special kind of space based hyperbolic geometry. This is a non-Euclidean space…" [...]

First Google Earth, then Google Moon…now Google Mars Cool – looking forward to the next variation! 

I’ve been meaning to write about this for a while – next time you want to get rid of some books, consider freeing them!  For quite a while now, Book Crossing has been transforming the world into a library with no fines and no due back date (though sadly, no guarantees for re-borrowing once you’ve freed [...]

"a generative painting system of imaginary colliding particles" Check out more of the Bubble Chamber

One man’s trash is another man’s treasure… Move over Craigslist, next time you need furniture in NY check out  Garbage Scout.  An awesome execution – combining the love for the chase, the ever amazing googlemaps and the word "FREE" Happy hunting for your treasure! – thanks to Inhabitat for the tip (pun intended)

"You don’t hammer nails with a screwdriver…When you have a hammer, everything starts looking like a nail…" – Anthony Bucci  I am stuck! I am sitting here attempting to do some work and my email is taking an incredibly slow time AND I am also waiting for emails that are still, seemingly due to same [...]

I have been resisting my blog post on wikipedia "the free encyclopedia" for some time, and I am going to keep resisting it: except to say the whole concept exites and scares me: – the former being I love the free access to knowledge and information and I love reference tools and research without having to [...]

Next time you want to come up with something new: "Take a combination of that things that already exist, but they havent been used together previously in the same manner " Great for products, processes … and more! This came via Sly as a Fox, Mark Fox* via a  post on innovation blog I am part of, The Innovation Commons. Extending [...]

I have been saying this for a long time. (I use the line "appropriate uses of technology)/ And blogging about it every now and then. (For example) I love technology. But often I find we forget that technology is a channel to share knowledge, not knowledge itself. I love technology, but need to remind myself often [...]