Bre declared “collaboration” the word of the month and I ran into some great videos that fit the theme perfectly. Howard Rheingold, the author of SmartMobs helped organize a series of lectures on cooperative studies earlier this year through Stanford University and the Institute for the Future. Video recordings of several of the lectures in the series titled "Towards a Literacy of Cooperation" are available on the Internet Archive and may be of interest videobloggers and others interested in all forms of collaboration. Click the pic to view an excerpt from this great series of lectures on cooperation, social networking, community building, cooperation and collaboration. In the clip, Rheingold explains how we have been telling a story of competition for many years, but have the chance to tell a new story that empahsizes the importance of cooperation. There are many excellant speakers in the series, including Ross Mayfield of SocialText Wiki and Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia. Even Darwins writings on survial of the species is examined to see how he viewed the roles of cooperation and competition. Did Darwin get it wrong? The answer is as surprising as it is interesting.

This is for Michael Tyas, Greg of FeederReader and all the other who post or like Windows Media files (WMV’s). I know that the the iPod has been getting all the attention and you may feel left out and so here is a little video bestoying the virtues of my Pocket PC iPAQ. Click the pic to view the vid.

Ok, so I got my wife an iPod for her birthday and she asked me to set up some feeds (good thing she asked!).  So I tried a few of my favorite feeds and it seems to work great.  The biggest problem is that there does not appear to be a way to import my feeds into iTunes and so adding easch, one by one, seems like a real chore. None the less, this is a fun and easy to use device.