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Urban Universe Productions Microsoft High School's First Graduating Class Has a Bright Future

Today is graduation day at The School of the Future, a high school started in 2006 by Microsoft as part of its U.S. Partners in Learning program and the School District of Philadelphia. We covered the school in 2007, while this graduating class was in its sophomore year (there they call it "second-year"). How have the students fared in this experimental new environment? We talked with Partners in Learning executive director Mary Cullinane to find out.


Out of the 156 students who

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Added by Urban Universe Productions on June 15, 2010 at 9:49am — No Comments

Urban Universe Productions One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) announces a $100 dollar tablet

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Mashable reported that One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) will introduce a $100… Continue

Added by Urban Universe Productions on May 28, 2010 at 10:56am — No Comments

Digitaldreus Apple Wins Over Adobe’s Heart For HTML5

Adobe Systems put aside its debate with Apple on Wednesday and told thousands of software developers that it is embracing the online video format preferred by the maker of iPhones, iPods and iPads.
Adobe chief technology officer Kevin Lynch said that company would fully endorse the HTML 5 video format which Apple chief executive Steve Jobs favors over Adobe's Flash software.
"HTML5 is great," Lynch said while Google executives touted the format as a key to rich online experiences to come… Continue

Added by Digitaldreus on May 20, 2010 at 10:30pm — No Comments

Urban Universe Productions How to land your dream job using Ad Words

By now, landing a job via social media is nothing new; we’ve perused the how-to guides and heard dozens of great success stories. There are, however, still plenty of creative opportunities for securing a job with a bit of clever online marketing.

Meet Alec Brownstein, senior copywriter at creative… Continue

Added by Urban Universe Productions on May 13, 2010 at 7:49pm — No Comments

Urban Universe Productions How Apple helped end the reign of the album

Over the past 8 years the Music industry has changed remarkably. Much of this is due to the advent of Apple's ipod, on October 23, 2001. This device almost single handedly buried the "album" and arguably the CD as a musical format as well.

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Added by Urban Universe Productions on May 5, 2010 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Urban Universe Productions FILM :: Tron Legacy Trailer vs. Tron Tribute with music by 8 Bit Weapon (+new release date for the remake)

Tron Legacy

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Ok, I'm dating myself but I was one of the kids playing the video game Tron, the first CGI film, till my fingers were raw. Well here are a fe… Continue

Added by Urban Universe Productions on May 3, 2010 at 5:30pm — 1 Comment

Digitaldreus Ford Adds Security Features To In-Car Wi-Fi Technology

Ford Motor Co. is rolling out the second generation of its Sync mobile connectivity platform this fall with new features and enhanced security. Sync 2.0, as part of a larger offering of connectivity features called MyFordTouch, lets drivers access Wi-Fi hot spots to download RSS feeds and podcasts from the Internet to play on the car's stereo system. The transmission has to be in "Park" before the Internet connection works to prevent people surfing the Web while driving. Besides the connectivity… Continue

Added by Digitaldreus on April 27, 2010 at 1:54am — 1 Comment

Urban Universe Productions VIDEO :: “Born Free” a short film by Romain Garvas feat music by M.I.A. goes viral

This is a highly violent yet interesting short film with loads of subtext...the timing for the film could not have been better as it coincides with the drama in the new Arizona police state. I'm looking forward to more from Romain Garvas. It's hard to judge the new track by M.I.A. but she has gone viral with the promo...I can't wait to hear the album and to check her out, LIVE on Governors Island in July.



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Added by Urban Universe Productions on April 27, 2010 at 1:00am — 2 Comments

Urban Universe Productions Using Twitter as an Information Filter

Twitter may be the single most effective digital information filtering tool available today.

What is an information filter? Anything that separates the things you want to read from the things you do not want to read. That is a good thing. With the abundance of digital information available to us, we must aggressively filter information to make it useful. Searching, tagging, sorting, and segmenting are al… Continue

Added by Urban Universe Productions on April 26, 2010 at 5:00pm — No Comments

Urban Universe Productions Today The First Augmented Reality Flashmob in the world was held in Amsterdam

Imagine the Dam Square in Amsterdam filled with statues and odd characters and only you can see them trough the camera of Android- and iPhone. Saturday the 24th of April this is going to be the case.

At exactly 14.00 hours the National Monument on the Dam Square will be surrounded with digital 3D statues that can be viewed in Augmented Reality with the Layar app. The rumour is that even the iconic Beatles will be there crossing the street like in the famous picture… Continue

Added by Urban Universe Productions on April 24, 2010 at 8:00pm — No Comments

Urban Universe Productions Over-sharing and Location Awareness

The following is a guest blog post provided by Frank Groeneveld, Barry Borsboom and Boy van Amstel. They are the creators of PleaseRobMe.com (no longer available), a website that uses Twitter's search functionality to show location-based messages. Their goal is to raise awareness about the potential risks of location-awareness and over-sharing. The opinions here are theirs only and do not necessarily represent those of CDT.

Over the last few years the consensus about privacy on the In… Continue

Added by Urban Universe Productions on April 24, 2010 at 7:00pm — No Comments

Urban Universe Productions Film :: "Exit Through the Gift Shop" by the legandary graffiti artist Banksy just opened in a city near you

LONDON - NOVEMBER 01: Builders walk past a ne...

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I spent a large part of my pr… Continue

Added by Urban Universe Productions on April 17, 2010 at 6:30pm — No Comments

George Davis The Last Black People in America

We have a wild discussion going on over at Psychology Today in a post called: The Last Black People in America, Part II

It would be great to add some Urban Thinking to the discussion. Go over take a read and leave a Comment at “join the discus… Continue

Added by George Davis on April 16, 2010 at 8:30pm — No Comments

Urban Universe Productions Collateral Murder- Whistle blower website releases classified US military video of the slaying of two Reuters Journalists

AH-64D Apache Longbow over Iraq

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5th April 2010 10:44 EST WikiLeaks has r

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Added by Urban Universe Productions on April 16, 2010 at 2:30pm — No Comments

Urban Universe Productions Dr. Benjamin Hooks, the Civil Rights Leader dies at 85 :: A Video Retrospective of His Life

Dr. Benjamin L. Hooks, a champion of the civil rights movement, who led the NAACP for 15 years from 1977 to 19… Continue

Added by Urban Universe Productions on April 15, 2010 at 11:00am — No Comments

John DaSunChyld Ward Poem :: TO AWAKEN ALONE

BRIGHT SUNLIGHT FLOODS THE ROOOM THAT WAS ONCE DARK.

ANOTHER NIGHT COME AND GONE,

YET TO AWAKEN ALONE.....

SUFFOCATED BY HER SCENT,

COVERING AND OVERFLOWING EVERY PORE.

OUT OF PLACE THE SOUL SETS,

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Added by John DaSunChyld Ward on April 7, 2010 at 4:11am — No Comments

John DaSunChyld Ward UNTITLED

RECALLING HER SEXINESS,
AS I AWAKEN FROM LAST NIGHT'S ESCAPED.
SHE GLOWED SO BEAUTIFUL IN THE MIX OF CANDLELIGHT.
I SEE FLASHES OF HER EXPRESSIONS.
AS WE ENJOYED OUR MOMENTS OF PLEASURE.
THE WAY HER SWEAT,
THE SWEET SCENT OF HER PHEROMONE.
CAUSES MY EMOTIONS & SENSES TO INVIGORATE ME INTO AN INSATIABLE AROUSAL.
EVERY NERVE ENDING STIMULATED.
AS MY SHEETS IN WHICH WE LAY, AGITATE.
HER BREATHS PLAY UPON MY NECK.
AS HER HANDS AND FINGERTIPS TEASE MY… Continue

Added by John DaSunChyld Ward on April 6, 2010 at 4:15am — No Comments

John DaSunChyld Ward Poem :: A LESSON LEARNED!

THOUGHTS COLLECTED IN MEMORY.
SO MUCH CONFUSION IN MIND.
I CAN RECALL BRIEF MOMENTS IN HAPPIER SENSIBILITY.
WHEN 2 CAN BE IN LOVE & SHARE DREAMS,
BUT, REALITY HAS A WAY TO AWAKEN YOU OUT OF THE CINEMATIC SEQUENCE OF LOVE.
WHEN THE PERSON YOU THOUGHT WAS THE ONE.
BECOMES THE VERY NIGHTMARE THAT THE DREAM WAS ONCE.
THEN THE NATURAL REACTION IS TO FIGHT,
FIGHT AND CONTINUE TO FIGHT.
WITH EVERY ACTION IN OFFENSE,… Continue

Added by John DaSunChyld Ward on April 6, 2010 at 3:30am — No Comments

Dee Grand Cloud Based Open Source Future for Teachers

Feliz día del profesorado
Image by César Poyatos via Flickr
A comput… Continue

Added by Dee Grand on April 4, 2010 at 11:19am — No Comments

George Davis What’s the Best Way to Fight Racism?

Is it best to attack racism directly, or to make changes in the culture that will, over time, make racism less important as a factor in American life? No doubt racism is very much still with us. This weekend hecklers hurl the N-word and spit on African American members of Congress at the end of the health reform debate.

These hecklers represent more than just a small group of extremists.

A Harris Poll released this week found that among Republicans:

· 67 percent beli… Continue

Added by George Davis on March 24, 2010 at 6:32pm — 4 Comments

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