A few presentations

I'm almost done posting presentations I've done over the last few days :). I delivered an online session to the Emerge conference early this morning on Technology and Community as Identity.

I'm currently in Fairbanks, Alaska...and this morning, I delivered a presentation to a group of designers on the Big Picture: Future of Education. While I'm pleased to have received the invite to return to Fairbanks, I feel a bit conflicted in that Chris Lott (situated in Fairbanks) is every bit as capable of synthesizing and expressing key trends in society and technology (though he would do so with a more poetic/artistic flare).

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2008 Tools/Sites/Extensions I Use List

Since it’s still close to the first of the year, and since if I remember to do it at the beginning of ‘09 it would be an interesting comparison (I think), let me follow the TechCrunch meme and make a list of the tools and sites I currently use on a regular basis. These are in no particular order, btw, and the only requirement here is that I use it at least once a week, but I’ve put a * next to the ones that would probably be near the top of the usage list. Here goes: WordPress*Skype*Gmail*Google Search*Google Reader*Google Notebook*Google NewsGoogle Calendar*Google Docs*Firefox*FlickrNingElluminateAudacityWikispacesDelicious*NetvibesPageflakesJingMindMeisteriTunesiPhotoSkitchTwitter*TwitterificNeoOfficeYouTubeJottRhapsodyPandoraWikipediaAmazon

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