Part XII: Videos/YouTube

It is surprising what can be found on YouTube. Check out the following stream at the bottom of this page: "The great Arthur Rubinstein plays Chopin (Polonaise Op. 53 "Heroic"). The sound quality, however, leaves much to be desired.

Part XI: Podcasts and Audio Files

I have downloaded iTunes onto my machine. I have to say that I was rather dismayed about the selection of classical music and artists that I am interested in and also the sound quality, viz. the extreme compression makes the music virtually unlistenable even with loss/less or WAV.

I have also viewed several podcasts.

Part X: Browser Tools

Today I installed Cooliris (FireFox).

Part IX: Social Networks

I have created a Face Book account using the pseudonym "Kasheh Varnishkes" (which were one of my great childhood favourites).

As well, I have added Soul to Squeeze to the friends network on Face Book.

Part VII: Google Docs

This is a brief but didactic review of Alexander Nevsky (1938).

Part VI: LibraryThing

LibraryThing Selections:

Part V: Social Bookmarking

My 'Social Bookmarks'

Part IV: Flickr

All photos have been retrieved from within Creative-Commons:

Quattro Staggione (The Four Seasons) performed in the cultural metaverse of Berlin

Alexandre Alekhine, the greatest world chess champion/world record holder for 28 simultaneous blindfold exhibition games (Paris, 1925)

Bobby Short at the Carlisle

The Cotton Club (Harlem)

Pt. III: Wikis

Revised rula20 wiki

Wikipedia May Restrict Public’s Ability to Change Entries

Read on ...

Pt. II RSS Feeds

My Blogroll

Web 2.0 Learning Programme Pt.I Blogs

I would like to start this blog with an idea about hyperreality and simulacra from Jean Beaudrillard's Xerox and Infinity:

"The extension of humanity into computer mediated communications, as well as the general rise of technology & media has brought out the ever increasing importance of the technological interface and extension of our species. Not only will we extend the practices of dreamwork into new area, but we will continue to observe the effects and transformations in dream imagery that these organic-digital combinations produce."