We’ve all been in the situation where we are in an online meeting and we want to share a something with the other participants and couldn’t. Well there is now an answer, Dimdim.
Dimdim is a service that lets everyone everywhere to communicate using rich media in real time. For free. Though if you want to customize or brand your own meeting you can pruchase Dimdim Pro for $99 per year.
A major draw card is it’s open source so you can add to it or extend it to meet your needs, what’s more is that participants don’t need to install software on their machines to participate, they just sign up for free…
Dimdim’s mission is “to enable web collaboration for everyone. We believe that we can improve the world by providing easy, open and affordable collaboration software that anyone can use.” A noble cause indeed.
When dealing with the internet he says we have to think about reproduction from a dandelions perspective. Produce seed (content) and disperse it to the world. It will float out and reach a wide variety of areas, often areas we had not thought of. Sometimes the seeds will fail, sometimes the seeds will reach fertile soil and the ideas will spread, we shouldn’t really worry too much.
Being mammals, he says, we naturally worry about everything we produce, be it offspring or artistic work. If someone distributes our work or uses it we shouldn’t jump up and down, (If they give the author credit that is) there is a lot of good that can come from our work being seen by a wider audience…
So if you are thinking of becoming more dandelion-like here are Mr Doctorow’s points to take into consideration.
“Your work needs to be easily copied, to anywhere whence it might find its way into the right hands. That means that the nimble text-file, HTML file, and PDF (the preferred triumvirate of formats) should be distributed without formality”
“Once your work gets into the right hands, there needs to be an easy way to consummate the relationship”
Personally I love this way of thinking and I shall try to be more like a dandelion when it comes to my work…
For the last few months I’ve been tracking the development of a concept called Supercool School. The idea is to create a peer-produced, on-demand learning environment that will revolutionize the way people learn online.
My only concern at this point is whether the teachers will be rated - I am keen to sign-up for classes, but the idea that anyone can step into the teacher’s seat makes me worry that I might waste an hour with a bad teacher.
I am impressed with what the Supercool School Principal, Steli Efti, and his team they’ve put together so far, and I have no doubt that it will get even better as more people start attending classes.
Annie Leonard uses animation and the interactive, pass-along attributes of the web to ensure that her message about Sustainability and Consumption is well understood, and widely seen.
This is a teaser video, the full version can be viewed at www.storyofstuff.com . It’s a great video, and really enhanced my understanding, and hopefully habits, about behaviour.
We’ve all been in the situation where we are in an online meeting and we want to share a something with the other participants and couldn’t. Well there is now an answer, Dimdim.
When dealing with the internet he says we have to think about reproduction from a dandelions perspective. Produce seed (content) and disperse it to the world. It will float out and reach a wide variety of areas, often areas we had not thought of. Sometimes the seeds will fail, sometimes the seeds will reach fertile soil and the ideas will spread, we shouldn’t really worry too much.
For the last few months I’ve been tracking the development of a concept called 
