We are going to be exploring ways next week that we can take IDL content and stream it into Usteam.tv and our Secondlife island. Should prove to be the first of many explorations and initiatives of our in bringing Greenbush Content to the world. Stay tuned regarding what we find !

A great article by eWeek discussing the greatest opensource apps of all time: [www.eweek.com] hint: We use almost all of them here! — check it out !

Great article here: [tinyurl.com] I have posted about the voice and "virtual you" for some time now …. one thing in the article I found AS interesting as voice in Secodlife is this === … Other plans in the works for Second Life include adding the ability to scan users' photos onto their avatars and ...

This looks like a fantastic book – my next read!: [tinyurl.com] ========= The number of travelers along the information superhighway is increasing at a rate of 10 percent a month. How will this communications revolution affect our culture and society? Pierre Levy shows how the unfettered exchange of ideas in cyberspace has the potential to ...

As we have spoken about in our podcasts — we now have a secondlofe island — drop in and visit ! [slurl.com]

article via business week – [tinyurl.com] ======= Over the past year, Intel employees from Singapore, Israel, and the U.S. have convened via high-level computerized conferences, collaborating on such projects as product strategy and information-technology planning. But these are no ordinary online meetings. They've happened in virtual worlds, with three-dimensional graphic characters, or avatars, standing in ...

I could not help but notice the dramatic similarities of this article [tinyurl.com] – and some of the conversations we have been having at Greenbush lately —- specifically the comment "What happens when video games meet Web 2.0" — or as we have said – "when the playstation generation grows up" — we have spoken- ...

Podcamp Midwest – Free Podcast Training ! July 20-21st KCI Expo Hall in Kansas City Couch and I went to Kansas City Saturday to help with the planning of the Podcamp Midwest this summer (we are now on the Podcamp Midwest Planning Committee) – many there went to Podcamp New York and were really excited ...

My Pics: Free Audio Hosting: [www.gcast.com] – What's a podcast? Your own audio broadcast, where you can easily record voice messages, mix in your favorite music, and share it all for the world to hear. Free Podsafe Music: [www.garageband.com] =============

Education Today and Tomorrow

A Quick Updates – we have orderd our secondlife island – Ill keep you posted here is its basic shape (16 acres):

Have you been paying attention? [www.teachertube.com] A cool video sharing network for teachers !

Web2.0 meets schools: Yahoo set to start the Teachers Network: [teachers.yahoo.com] Create – Modify – Share Standards Based Curriculum

AppleTV RSS Plugin Beta 1 Available – check it out here: [blog.twenty08.com]

OpnOffice in the schools seems like a logical choice: see what they are saying here – [nategrondin.com]

~ Media Globe ~ Coffee's ~ Podzones and More ! secondlife://Taernils%20Bluff/20.394699/13.5805

[labs.greenbush.us] – Current Labs Work ~ 3D Virtual World Secondlife – (see video) [www.youtube.com] ~ GreenbushTV – Video sharing service as the medium [www.youtube.com] ~ EduShare – tagging education video on sharing services ~ Twitter as a tool (www.twitter.com) ~Greenbush Knowledgebase (knowledge management through RSS) [www.youtube.com]

I have been posting quite regularly about the 3D worlds and Secondlife – how it fits with the read/write/DO web and the playstation generation – a co-worker made me aware of yet another article – [www.renci.org] – very insightful – I recommend the read ! [excerpt] ======== What we see today is just the tip ...

My $ .02 I started calling my kids generation the "Playstation generation" a while back … when I noticed them and all of their friends (the 2 boys are 6 & 7) seemed to have Playstations … and are seeming to learn the rules of baseball, football, and many more skills using them. They will ...