Buzzwords to describe the latest trends on the net, such as “RSS”, “podcasting” and “phishing”, are largely unknown to US web users, according to a survey.

BBC NEWS | Technology | Buzzwords slow to grab US surfers

Creativity and innovation thinking are topics that I have been searching recently. Below are those couple of sites’ resource links some related recommended books that related to creativity and innovation.

lifehack.org » Essential Resources for Creativity (163 techniques + 30 tips + books!)

Sifry: I think RSS needs to be completely transparent. It’s like asking people to understand HTML in order to read a web site. That entirely limits your audience. Longhorn announced RSS being built into the operating system. Apple Tiger built RSS into Safari. Firefox built RSS support into the browser.

Technorati’s Sifry says RSS will succeed by disappearing

Ever wondered why you can’t just click on an article and blog it? Where’s the universal “Blog This” button?
Tired of being forced to use only the most popular tool or utility to take advantage of a new standard - wish you could use any tool or utility instead? Where’s a routing service to enable me to send posts to whatever tool I choose?
Reblg is a blog-this button that works with any site, routing users to whatever tool they choose.
How it works
Reblg.com is a connector between blogs and reblogs.
In any reblogging system, chunks of microcontent pass from a source blog to a reblog. A source blog can be any publisher — a commercial news site, a personal journal, or a playlist community, for example. A reblog is a web page where microcontent is republished.
If a publisher could link to a special reblog-this URL on the user’s reblog site, the publisher could make it easier to do reblogging. Since a reblog site might be any URL, though, this is not practical. Reblg solves this problem by sitting between a source blog and a reblog, redirecting users to the reblog of their choice.
Reblg.com has no other features, and we do not plan to add more. It is a very simple thing with a single purpose.

Reblg: user-powered site connector

Integral Naked

Mindjack - Piracy is Good?

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There are numerous reasons to be nonstandard. For example when they built the world trade center in New York the thing was so huge that the vendor suggested they could have custom light bulbs that screwed in counter clockwise rather than the usual clockwise. This would keep the construction workers from stealing light bulbs.

You see a lot of seemingly gratuitous nonstandard behavior around batteries.

Some of it is, I suspect, carefully calculated - by creating a custom battery and assuring that your customers have to return to you to purchase a new one you can create a nice revenue stream.

Text books are so expensive because the market is so fragmented, the buyers completely locked-in; much worse than batteries. Where is the open text book movement?

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Open source books:

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page
http://www.opentextbook.org/
http://www.opensourcetext.org/
http://www.lightandmatter.com/area1book1.html
http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html
http://ocw.usu.edu/Index/index_html/ECIndexPage_view
http://ocw.jhsph.edu/
http://cnx.rice.edu/
http://sofia.fhda.edu/
http://www.cmu.edu/oli/
http://www.merlot.org/Home.po
http://nsdl.org/

from Mark Pilgrim on: nonstandard

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