Academic Earth provides links to Thousands Of Video Lectures From The World's Top Scholars

Academic Earth,an organization founded with the goal of giving everyone on earth access to a world-class education is now the site of thousands Of Video Lectures From The World's Top Scholars.

Click here to view videos categorized by subject area

Here is an excerpt from their "About page":

As more and more high quality educational content becomes available online for free, we ask ourselves, what are the real barriers to achieving a world class education? At Academic Earth, we are working to identify these barriers and find innovative ways to use technology to increase the ease of learning.

We are building a user-friendly educational ecosystem that will give internet users around the world the ability to easily find, interact with, and learn from full video courses and lectures from the world’s leading scholars. Our goal is to bring the best content together in one place and create an environment that in which that content is remarkably easy to use and in which user contributions make existing content increasingly valuable.

We invite those who share our passion to explore our website, participate in our online community, and help us continue to find new ways to make learning easier for everyone.

President Barack Obama keynote address at ALA 2005 conference

President Barack Obama keynoted the opening general session at the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago, June 23–29, 2005, while a U.S. senator from Illinois. This article, published in the August 2005 issue of American Libraries, is an adaptation of that speech, which drew record crowds and garnered a standing ovation.

"Bound to the Word
Guardians of truth and knowledge, librarians must be thanked for their role as champions of privacy, literacy, independent thinking, and most of all reading"

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44th President of the United States is sworn into Office

I thought I would share with you some of my favorite pics of this momentous day when my choice for President, Barack H. Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States.

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Future of the Internet - Experts weigh in

Experts and analysts assess the future of the Internet in a new survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project that asked respondents to assess predictions about technology and its roles in the year 2020.

Here is a summary of predictions:

• The mobile device will be the primary connection tool to the Internet for most people in the world in 2020.
• The transparency of people and organizations will increase, but that will not necessarily yield more personal integrity, social tolerance or forgiveness.
• Voice recognition and touch user-interfaces with the Internet will be more prevalent and accepted by 2020.
• Those working to enforce intellectual property law and copyright protection will remain in a continuing "arms race," with the "crackers" who will find ways to copy and share content without paying for it.
• The divisions between personal time and work time and between physical and virtual reality will be further erased for everyone who is connected, and the results will be mixed in their impact on basic social relations.
• Next-generation engineering of the network to improve the current Internet architecture is more likely than an effort to rebuild the architecture from scratch.

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Life 2.0

In Life 2.0, people move into a shared network space that drives work, research, education, entertainment, social activities—essentially everything they do. They use digital tools—PDA, MP3, laptop, cell phone, camera, PC—to tell their stories and interact with the world. They are always online, connected to one another and to the Web ... Read more in the latest issue of OCLC newsletter NextSpace

Obama in photos