Via The Chronicle of Higher Education, I’ve just discovered that Google has just announced the launch of an initiative that permits distribution of Creative Commons licensed works via Google Books.
The announcement indicates that this option is available as an account setting to members of their Partner Program.
Creative Licensed works will be identifiable by the standard Creative Commons logo and links to the full license, and will include download links. Google continues:
“…if the rightsholder has chosen to allow people to modify their work, readers can even create a …

Session One (Keynote) Government 2.0: The Not So Secret Society of the Goverati
Presented by: Eric Hackathorn, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Session Description: http://www.nmc.org/2009-nml-symposium/hackathorn-keynote
Recording:
http://media.nmc.org/2009/03/hackathorn-keynote.mov
Goverati web site: http://www.goverati.com/
‘Twittometer’ for determining crowd opinion
Open with Video:

Above clip is an older version is an older one. One used during the session is:
http://media.nmc.org/2009/03/goverati.mov
[podcast format="video"]http://media.nmc.org/2009/03/goverati.mov[/podcast]
Goverai is connected with citizens
Admiral Grace “The most damaging phrase in the language is ‘we’ve always done it this way”
Govloop
Obama is the first wired president. May be the first president to use email. Calling for transparency, collaboration.
[Common Craft video …

[For clearer viewing of this video, I recommend clicking on the monitor icon in the lower right-hand corner of the video player to view this clip full-screen.]
In case you haven’t noticed, I’ve begun to explore screencasts as a far more visual way of depicting subject matter than text or screen shots are capable of. I find they are a very effective means of explaining a process/workflow in that they enable a proper demonstration. I’m also hopeful that, once I get the workflow finalised, they can also be a …

Things just got interesting in the realm of live streaming.  Several months back rumours began to circulate that YouTube was planning to enter the market with their own release.  To existing players the implications of this at the time were significant.  Google’s cash pools combined with YouTube’s user base would represent a formidable opponent which would arguably take over the niche.
The rumour began in February 2008 with a statement by YouTube co-founder, Steve Chen, who was quoted by Pop17’s Saray Meyers as saying “Live video is something we’ve always wanted …

Google has just entered the realm of the virtual world with the launch of Lively.
Via the Official Google Blog (“Be who you want on the web pages you visit“):
The Lively team wants to help people experience another dimension of the web. We hope you will use the product to express yourself with and without words, and to do this in the places you already visit on the web.
If you enter a Lively room embedded on your favorite blog or website, you can immediately get a sense of the room creator’s …