After ages in betas, Miro — the open source, high-quality, multi-channel, DRM-free, internet TV and video player — has finally reached version 1.0. Thank you Participatory Culture Foundation who make Miro possible.
Get Miro while it's hot. (Warning: this is a 24MB download, and it's popular, so it may be a bit slow.)
Hmmm. 2,500 channels. Is there anything on?
I imagine that this week Markos Moulitsas, the founder of Daily Kos, is thinking something like, 'First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.'
The law school is looking for a Research and Instructional Technologist to discover new cool tools for us, customize them, and teach law faculty how to make the most of them.
The Research and Instructional Technologist will design and implement a program to assist faculty in incorporating technology into their teaching and scholarship by providing consultation, advice, training and support for instructional and research technologies. In so doing, the Research and Instructional Technologist will among other initiatives demonstrate the use of specific software in group and individual sessions and will be the faculty resource for specific instructional and research technology software and hardware questions. The person in this position will also focus on researching and recommending the most appropriate combinations of instructional and research technologies for facilitating the Law School's scholarly and educational missions. Other responsibilities include authoring written instructions and documentation for technology resources available to the faculty. The Information Technology Department's Assistant Manager of Audio Visual Services will work collaboratively with the person in this position in training the faculty in the use of classroom technology.
This position will coordinate the delivery and support of instructional and research technologies and services with the Director Information Technology and the Director of the Law Library. This person must possess a high level of skill in working inter-departmentally and must be comfortable in both, Law Library and IT settings. Position #002076.
QUALIFICATIONS: B.A. in Instructional Technology, Educational Technology or related field and five years work related experience; Master's degree in Instructional Technology, Educational Technology preferred. To include: Experience assisting educators in using technology to enhance teaching and/or research; Training or teaching experience; Knowledge of web-authoring, design and development; Broad range of technical proficiency including: multimedia design, developing and administering courses in various course management products, understanding presentation software, HTML, 'smart' classroom presentation equipment, graphics packages, streaming video technologies, and Office Packages (Microsoft/Corel). Salary: Competitive.
The University of Miami offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package including medical and dental benefits, tuition remission, vacation, paid holidays and much more. The University of Miami is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.
This could be a great job for the right person. And if you are that person, we'll really appreciate you.
The whole world is linking to (and playing) FreeRice. They give you a word, often quite obscure, and four definitions, even the best of which is sometimes not all that perfect:
For each word you get right, we donate 10 grains of rice to the United Nations World Food Program
The annoying and addictive thing is that I can almost never seem to get past level 48.
I gather there about 2,000 grains of rice in a quarter of a cup, so it will take a lot of games to feed anyone…..
I think this must be one of the most brilliant publicity stunts ever. Let's pull out the back of the envelope: Even if they did promise to give away 136,236,930 grains on Nov. 11, that's only about 68,118 cups, or circa 457 bushels. A rice bushel weighs 45 pounds. It appears that US rice currently trades for about $10.50 per cwt (hundredweight) on the wholesale market.
So we take our 457 bushels, multiply by $10.50, and then by .45, and we get about $2160 worth of rice being donated on their record day — which must be the lowest cost-per-eyeball going when you consider how many people had to be playing for how long to get to that total. (After all, wrong answers don't count.)
Now, if they are paying retail prices, this is going to cost them a lot more, but I doubt they are.
This is one of the finest explanations I've ever seen of the sub-prime crisis, and of market volatility in general:
This really is excellent. Very highly recommended even if you are not an investor.
(spotted via Calculated Risk)
Here's a new twist on an old method of stealing data.
Taipei Times: Portable hard discs sold locally and produced by US disk-drive manufacturer Seagate Technology have been found to carry Trojan horse viruses that automatically upload to Beijing Web sites anything the computer user saves on the hard disc, the Investigation Bureau said.
Around 1,800 of the portable Maxtor hard discs, produced in Thailand, carried two Trojan horse viruses: autorun.inf and ghost.pif, the bureau under the Ministry of Justice said.
The tainted portable hard disc uploads any information saved on the computer automatically and without the owner's knowledge …
The bureau said that the method of attack was unusual, adding that it suspected Chinese authorities were involved.
Of course, in the USA, we use more subtle means to get your data.
Jotwell Blenderlaw