THe Battlestar Galactica font. Nifty.

Ze Frank’s year-long daily vlog comes to an end. It’s been a great ride, sportsracers …

Given the amount of Twitteration about Twitter, advice on using it well seems a good idea!

“Scientists say they have found huge deposits of ice on the south pole of Mars that are so plentiful they would blanket the planet in 11 metres of water if they were liquid. The deposits are up to 3.7 kilometres thick and cover an area larger than Texas.”

“Young people, wealthy families and graduates use the internet more than the elderly, poor or unqualified, according to a report that highlights Britain’s growing “digital divide”.”

Andy Baio crunches the numbers to show Twitter’s actual growth – it has grown a great deal over the last five months – not quite exponentially, but close!

Veronica Mars, one of the smartest shows on television, appears to have been cancelled. (I’m very disappointed.)

Scoble predicts that Viacom will get its $1billion in 2008, but user-created content will continue to become king. (And Viacom will destroy a lof of public goodwill in the process.)

“A Northern Ireland undertaker has begun broadcasting funerals live on the internet.”

The Australian ban on the videogame Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure is proving as ineffective as it was uninformed; it can be downloaded instead of physically pruchased, and Aussie law can’t (currently) stop downloads!

Larry Lessig looks at four of the key misconceptions in the debate about Google Books and copyright issues. (The comments on this post are also good reading, showing some of the complexities of the issues involved.)

The short-list for the blookers (books based on blogs) has been announced. Some good reading in there. My money is on the Postsecret book to win.

I was interviewed for two podcasts in the ‘Mobile Technology in TAFE’ series, one on Lectopia & Podcasting, and the other on social software in education more broadly. If you’re interested, please have a listen. (Feedback is most welcome).

“Full-Time Intimate Community” (FTIC) … are the close group of friends (usually around 8-10 people) with whom you share presence. Most mobile youths know whether members of their FTIC are awake, at school, happy, sick, finished with their homework …

“Entertainment giant Viacom Media says it will sue online search engine Google and its video-sharing website, YouTube, for more than $US1 billion.” (Just in case you’re 1 of the 4 people online who hasn’t had this news thrust upon them yet!)

Rough transcript of Will Wright’s keynote from SXSW, looking at Spore, evolution and game narrative. Best Quote: “One of my real aspirations of this is I wanna see interstellar wars between Care Bears and Klingons.”

The argument: Twittering pretty much ensures we never, ever reach full concentration. (It has graphs and pictures, too!)

Chuck Olsen interviews Miles Beckett and Greg Goodfried, two of the creators and producers of lonelygirl15 (The talk business models more than anything, but interesting nevertheless…)

“Professors aren’t the only ones making podcasts for the purpose of education. Their students are being required to create them …” (Not exactly new).

“EdPod presents a mix of education stories, from early childhood to the end of secondary school. … EdPod examines new education ideas, and asks whether things could or should be done differently. … EdPod brings you the latest ideas about learning.”

“The stereotypical image of gamers as spotty, teenage boys is a long way off the mark, according to new research showing the average gamer is in their 30s and just as likely to be a woman.”

“BigPond today launched Australia’s first major corporate presence in the online virtual world, Second Life, with the unveiling of ‘The Pond’. …features islands with uniquely Australian themes and recreations of iconic Australian landmarks…”

Jane McGonigal, Ian Bogost, and Mia Consalvo choose and run through the top ten research findings in Game Studies in the past year. So much more fun than a literature review … 🙂

“If Twitter continues its meteoric rise, then we may well be witnessing a changing of the guard. That doesn’t mean blogging as we know it will go away. But it will surely morph in Twitter’s wake if a big shift is underway.” (Rubel stakes a claim as Twitte