Gavin Andresen, a friend and former business partner, is the public face of BitCoin, an open source digital cash alternative. The open source project community, like most, is dominated by geeks (I say that with love ). As such, they have often struggled to communicate what they do. But recently several great explanations / interviews [...]
Wikis traditionally reward contributors with prestige, or often just warmth and fuzz (as it is hard to see WHO is the main contributor and thus gain prestige). The BitCoin (open source digital cash alternative) Wiki has created a reward system. Short version: they’ve created a “game” whereby you earn points by your contributions to the wiki. Periodically [...]
Desktop virtualization has apparently come of age. This wiki shows some amazing results a university carefully measured when they did a side-by-side comparison. Some results highlights below, each showing the cost savings by switching to virtualization Implementation: >80% Power consumption: >80% Far less time spent to upgrade machines / add software. See their full results [...]
I LOVE GoogleDocs, but it just isn’t QUITE there. I’m a power Office user and miss the features of the full office suite, and I miss the processing power I get with office that I can’t get on GoogleDocs (Excel can process tens of thousands of rows of calculations, GoogleDocs chokes on more than a [...]
This organization is dedicated to advancing Higher Education through the careful application of tech. They are by educators/CIOs, for educators & CIOs. They have amassed an amazing stockpile of valuable resources from whitepapers to mailing lists to podcasts About EDUCAUSE | EDUCAUSE.
