Finally, A Practical Use for Second Life - ReadWriteWeb. When you think of virtual worlds, the first one that probably pops into your head is Second Life, but in reality, there are a number of different virtual worlds out there. There are worlds for socializing, worlds for gaming, even worlds for e-learning. But one thing that most virtual worlds have in common is that they are places for play, not practicality. (Yes, even the e-learning worlds are designed with elements of "fun" in mind).
Outside of some reports that virtual worlds will replace web conferencing in the enterprise, we haven't seen a lot of innovation in this space which would make businesses sit up and take notice. About Glasshouse The software, Glasshouse by Green Phosphor, lets you take data from either a spreadsheet or database query and place a 3D representation of it into a virtual world environment where it can then be explored interactively. How it Works: CICP (Think HTTP for Virtual Worlds) Data Viz for Anyone: From Spreadsheets to Biotech.
Twitter Professors: 18 People to Follow for a Real Time Educatio. Lon S. Cohen is a writer and social media strategist. He is @obilon on Twitter. Never before in history has it been easier to glean from the knowledge of others who will give it away to you for free. It’s equivalent to getting higher education. I’m talking about Masters level stuff. Many of them don’t even know it and that’s the beauty. 1) RT really smart stuff from the people they follow saving me from sifting through even more of a stream of Tweets.2) Have insightful Tweets in and of themselves (not just links).3) Inspire me to engage in conversation with them or with others.4) Write really great articles/blog posts on subjects I want to learn about or point to interesting articles I would never have read otherwise.5) Expand my world experience through their stream of Tweets. Usually, it’s a combination of many things and there is no way to quantify it, there’s no real formula and there’s no one particular Tweet that I can pull from to summarize their contributions.
Christopher Penn. Word Cloud Analysis of Obama's Inaugural Speech Compared to. Barack Obama was just sworn in as President of the US and though he stumbled in repeating his oath, the speech that followed was delivered flawlessly and was widely praised around the web. (Several readers have told us that it wasn't Obama that stumbled, it was Justice Roberts.) There were quite a few concepts discussed that we suspect haven't been a part of past inaugural speeches. What words were used most often? We ran the full text of the speech through tag cloud generator Wordle.net for one view of the event, and just for the sake of historical context we ran George W.
The most common words in the Obama and Bush speeches were dramatically different. Obama's Speech If you want to search inside Obama's speech to see how he used these words, try using the video player below, courtesy of Delve Networks. Bush's Speech 2005 Bill Clinton's Second Inauguration Speech Ronald Reagan's First Inaugural Speech Lincoln's First Lincoln's Second Feeling Inspired by the Events Today? The Tool For Notes.
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