Microblog

The following are dents/tweets suggested for the OLPC microblog

• "Teaching Open Source Summit" Oct 29-30 in Toronto, be there! http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/TOSS09

• Aussie Northern Territory: Computer dream sees light of day (1 Oct) http://www.theage.com.au/digital-life/computers/computer-dream-sees-light-of-day-20090929-gb30.html

• Curling Up With Hybrid Books, Videos Included--Book publishers looking to embrace the age of the iPhone, Kindle and YouTube are creating “vooks,” which intersperse videos throughout electronic text that can be read — and viewed — online: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/01/books/01book.html

• Can a laptop change the world? (22 Sept) http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2009/09/can_a_laptop_change_the_world.html

• Uruguay's Plan Ceibal: The world's most ambitious roll-out of educational technologies? http://blogs.worldbank.org/edutech/videos/uruguays-plan-ceibal-the-worlds-most-ambitious-roll-out-of-educational-technologies

• Impressive Public PowerPoint converted to PDF and posted to the bottom of: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/ClassActs/Resources

• Accompanying Uruguay video: http://youtube.com/watch?v=glz2I84JafA

• Bold Rwanda takes broadband leap: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8266290.stm

• XO 1.5: Create, Collaborate, Contribute: http://blog.laptop.org/2009/09/28/xo-1-5-create-collaborate-contribute/

(don't worry about counting the chars in the URL, they'll get converted to ur1.ca short urls)