Saturday, November 11, 2006
Email is Dead for Teens

Danah Boyd writes:


Do young people have email accounts? Yes. Do they login to them semi-regularly? Yes. Do they use it as their primary form of asynchronous communication for talking with their friends? No.
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[The youth] have email accounts. They get homework assignments sent there. Xanga tells them that their friends have updated their pages. Attachments (a.k.a. digital Netflix/Amazon packages) get sent there. Companies try to spam them there (a.k.a. junk mail). Sifting through the crap, they might get a neat penpal letter or a friend might have sent them something to read but, by and large, there's not a lot of emotional investment over email.

That said, take away their AIM or MySpace or SMS or whatever their primary form of asynchronous messaging with their friends is and they will start twitching and moan about how you've ruined their life. And you have. Because you've taken away their access to their friends, their access to the thing that matters most to them. It's like me taking away your access to blogs and email and being forced to stay at the office just because you showed up late for work.

Transforming Education

My colleague, Atanu Dey, has a post on how he would like to transform education in India. "Want to transform education? Want to re-engineer the whole system of education so that it is effective, efficient, and relevant to the world of today? I have the business plan and the funding. I need committed smart people who want to accomplish an important task, have fun while doing it, and make a lot of money (exactly in that order.)" Atanu's big idea:


Provide an end-to-end managed service to educational institutions which will make education more effective, efficient, and relevant.

The service will be to provide all educational content (rich, multi-media, massively hyperlinked across domains) and tools (learning, teaching, testing, evaluation, teacher training, administration, reporting), and the technology platform to host the content locally and to access it.

Deeshaa (Rural Development) | PermaLink | Comments (3)

This sounds very very interesting. Will it be a gurukul model,just like olden days when parents used to send their child away from home to learn everything that was required for them to survive as well as bring out the right talent in them.

Where can I hear more about Atanu's Idea???

Posted by Sheetal

To transform education in the Nation it is essential to provide the basic amenities in rural areas first since two thirds represents Rural India.

Since last 15 years the State Govts and Cental Govts are not giving much emphasize for education resulting in fall of standards in rural areas.

If some somebody comes forward to provide the best education apart from money the qualified teachers are in scare. Nobody goes to rural areas since basic facilities are not available.

I do discuss with the enlightened retired people in cities. They do have interest in going to rural areas and to provide free teaching to the needy if someone organises. But theirs apprehension is about non-availability of medical facilities which are essential for them.

I want to start a Gurukul Ashram type in an interior rural base. Will any volunteers join me?.

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TI's eCosto Chips

WSJ writes about new cellphone chips from Texas Instruments:


[TI] said the design combines multiple functions that usually are run by separate integrated circuits onto a single chip, which reduces the cost of phones that use it. The eCosto is the first "single-chip solution" that incorporates multimedia functions, including a three-megapixel camera, video playback and three-dimensional games, said Alain Mutricy, a Texas Instruments vice president.
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Mr. Mutricy said the eCosto chips are designed to bring down the prices wireless carriers pay for the least expensive multimedia-enabled mobile phones to about $50 to $70, from closer to $90 to $100 now. Retail prices will differ depending on the decisions of the manufacturers and of carriers, which distribute the phones and which often subsidize their cost to consumers.

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