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Games Tech 2010 & Will Wright’s Keynote [video]

SeriousGamesMarket informs about the keynote speech by Will Wright at Games Tech 2010. Will Wright is designer of popular games like SimCity, SimEarth, and The Sims. Wright spoke on the intersection of military gaming and commercial gaming technologies.

Games Tech 2010’s primary objective is to promote the use of game technology within the Department of Defense, inviting participation and exchange of Ideas. For more information and some great insightful presentations visit the official Game Tech 2010 conference website

The 1st ever Choose Privacy Week

Privacyrevolution.Org informs: Choose Privacy Week is a new initiative that invites library users into a national conversation about privacy rights in a digital age. The campaign gives libraries the tools they need to educate and engage users, and gives citizens the resources to think critically and make more informed choices about their privacy.

The first-ever Choose Privacy Week will take place May 2-8, 2010 and is a new program created by the American Library Association to help librarians organize events in their communities about the role that privacy plays in their lives, why privacy is important, and how their privacy can be compromised on a daily basis.

Join the revolution here and find some great tools and resource materials.

Choose Privacy Week Video from 20K Films on Vimeo.

Choose Privacy Week Trailer from 20K Films on Vimeo.

TEDx NYED : Examining the role of new media and technology in shaping the future of education

TEDxNYED (@tedxnyed) was an all-day event designed to bring leading educators, innovators, and idealists together to share their vision of education. It’s an event to provide a platform for administrators, teachers, and those passionate about education to connect, learn from these extraordinary speakers, and spread their ideas on how new media and technology are shaping the future of education.

The speakers at the event were Gina Bianchini, Amy Bruckman, Andy Carvin, Dan Cohen, Jeff Jarvis, Henry Jenkins, Neeru Khosla, Juliette LaMontagne, Chris Lehmann, Lawrence Lessig, Dan Meyer, Jay Rosen, George Siemens, Mike Wesch and David Wiley

Here’s the video of Henry Jenkins and more on TEDx NYED official web site.

SXSWi 2010: Quotes, Reactions, Reports & Videos

Quotes from SXSWi:

"The Internet is 15 years old, hasn’t had sex yet and is just getting started” – Gary Vee, via Brad-King

"Never do anything hard alone" – Charles Knickerbocker, via Social Web Strategy

"Abundance breaks the existing order far more effectively than scarcity, ubiquitous availability changes the world’ – @cshirky

"Because twitter is so simple we try to make twitter reach the weakest signals in the world (don’t need web to tweet)" – E.V. Williams. Via Jon 383

"We want to make music like water" – Daniel Elk, CEO of Spotify, via normalnorman

"If you’re not pissing some people off you’re doing something wrong" – Quote from the audience, via mCuban, via missusP

"(social media) isn’t a fad. it isn’t going away." journalism sharing on FB is up 500% in past 6 months " - BBC, via producer girl

We see ourselves as an information network, not a social network" – E.V. Williams, via YODspica_TV

"At some point, all traditinal media companies will include crowdsourced data in stories " – @mashable, via Mayerjoy

A very harsh door sign, "Bloggers aren’t real writers" (pic) via @flatrabbit @robertashley @seswa

Reactions, Notes, Observations and News on SXSWi

SXSWi Videos