Tweet Tweet: My Twitter Lists

Twitter’s great!

I’ve been on it for a while now, and I’ve realised that it’s the perfect way to get breaking news and chit-chat with like-minded folks (read Your Twitter Username is your email address).

What I really like about it are the lists which I use to categorise tweeps…

• People: Great thinkers, cutting edge inventors, people whom you should tweet with. Tweeps like William Gibson, Dalai Lama, Warren Ellis to name a few.
• Fun Science: All the fun science/tech blogs that’s on Twitter. I’m following Wired, Popular Science and Boing Boing.

 

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Featured Video: One Laptop per Child

“Now once people start looking at this, they say, ‘Ah, this is a laptop project.’ Well, no, it's not a laptop project. It's an education project.” -- Nicholas Negroponte

That’s what his One Laptop per Child’s all about. Have a listen and tell me if I’m wrong.

Nicholas Negroponte talks about how One Laptop per Child is doing, two years in. Speaking at the EG conference while the first XO laptops roll off the production line, he recaps the controversies and recommits to the goals of this far-reaching project.

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Featured Video: The future of communication

Great video about communication in the new world. And how it’s going to look like in 10 years from now, 2027 and 2050.

I quite like the bit where it says “copyright is illegal”. What say you? ;D

Also, does anyone how what accent it’s in? I just can’t seem to place it.

nice video about the future of communications; Google, Microsoft,Yahoo!, Amazon...

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Why women engineers rock…

What happened on UCreateChange.com (19-25 Apr 2010)

Women are as inventive as men.

The Spelbots is a great example. The all-woman engineering team built robots to play soccer. The efforts of these girls paid off as they came in second at the RoboCup 2009 (Osaka). That achievement’s nothing to be sneezed at.

In fact they’ve torn apart notions that engineering is a “guy” thing. Naturally there are differences. When guys compete to showcase their ideas, women tend to be more accepting.

According to their mentor professor Andrew Williams, “There tends to be more of a social side [to it]…Teamwork basically. There’s an emphasis on collaboration, creativity, social aspects of computer science.”

In fact the social part of engineering (or related disciplines) is important for women engineers.

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Featured Video: Women in Tech

“Are women only good at the girly bits of tech? E.g. Social networking, blogging, vlogging.” asks Olivia from MoBuzz . 

Apparently that and more. In Spain (2:53), the top dogs of Microsoft and Google are women, and the country boasts the oldest blogger, who is also a woman.

So here’s my question to y’all: Are women only good at the girly bits of tech?

Tell us in the comments.

Today we take a look at tech in a different way - instead of talking about the boys, we´re gonna talk about the girls. The failures, the successesand what it means to be a woman in tech.

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Featured video: What adults can learn from kids

Adults can forget how it’s like to be a kid: to dream, imagine, “students teaching their teachers?”

Do you think that they are right? Tell us in the comments.

Adora Svitak: What adults can learn from kids

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Featured Video: Microfinancing

Microfinance is a way where “financial services are provided to low-income clients, including consumers and the self-employed, who traditionally lack access to banking and related services.” (wikipedia)

It’s how the poor get resources (e.g. loans) to better themselves. If you’re not sure, answer this: “Which is  better: A pushcart selling candy or a tin shack stall that sells grocery?”

Answer’s in the video…

World Hope isn’t the only microfinance or socially-conscious project out there: KIVA’s a peer-to-peer portal that connects low-income clients to anyone who wants to help. There’s also the Project 10^100 by Google which polls suggestions amongst netizens and puts them into practice. More grounded projects include Network Relief Kit – a solar-powered internet comms network for disaster areas.

There are many socially-conscious projects that could help us help others, and tell us about if you know of any.

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