Barcelona airport strike strands 10,000 Britons - Times OnlineThe strike was sparked by the decision by Spanish airports authority AENA not to renew Iberia’s baggage handling contract.Workers blocked one of the airport’s three runways this morning to protest at possible job losses.How I spent part of my summer vacation...

Andy Carvin has set up a site - DOPA Watch - that automatically aggregates the latest news and blog posts about the DOPA (interesting acronym) legislation.... It will be interesting to see if the owners of the types of sites targeted by the legislation will begin to lobby Congress to counter some of the perceptions inherent in the legislation.

A few months back I wrote about Gizmo, a voice over Internet service that has many nice features including the ability to record phone conversations (great for student interviews and such...)... While this can be seen as a marketing move by the company, the result is that with a bit of organization and effort you can make voice calls to 60 countries for free.

Google Video has a nice feature that allows you to link to a specific section of video stored on their system.

Oregon Public Broadcast has a report about the roll out of Portland's citywide wireless Internet plan. Starting next summer residents will be able to pick up an advertising based connection free of charge.

They talk about the many features of blip including hooks into bookmark tagging engines like del.icio.us and Furl, and the ability to post video not only to blip.tv, but also to the Internet Archive. They also discuss Udell's recent post about "walled gardens", and some of the features of blip that allow users to make their work more transparent and not only tied to blip's site.

The feed returns a comparison of the changes along side the previous saved version.... Atom/RSS feed of the Portland, Oregon article in my newsreader...

Gardner Writes » Blog Archive » Faculty Academy 2006 Podcast: Jon Udell Keynote Address on 21st Century Literacy: About fifteen months after Jerry Slezak introduced me to the wonders of Jon Udell, I was standing before a capacity crowd in Combs 139 introducing Jon as the keynote speaker for Faculty Academy 2006.... Beginning with Teilhard de Chardin and Doug Engelbart, and ending with a stirring challenge to transform higher education into a truly open, outward-facing public resource, Jon provided every bit of the focus, insight, and vision that mark a truly great keynote address.

Fraser Speirs, the developer of Flickr Export, the great photo exporting tool for iPhoto has recently taken a new position as computing teacher and general IT person at Cedars School of Excellence. He has started a new weblog, Teaching 2.0 , where he discusses his work at the school, focusing on IT and technology integration issues.

I just was reading about a conferences sponsored by MTVu looking at games and gaming and asking the question Can Social-Change Video Games Tackle Divorce, Poverty, Genocide?... Examples include Disaffected, which parodies the employment experience of Kinko's worker; Peacemaker, "a one-player game in which the player can choose to take the role of either the Israeli Prime Minister or the Palestinian President."