It's hard to tell how the open-source OpenMoko FIC Neo1973 smartphone compares to the Apple iPhone just by the two pictures we placed on our earlier post, so we decided to visually compare them with an official SizeModo.

The biggest difference between the two is the Neo1973's 18.5mm thickness, compared to the svelte 11.6mm thickness of the iPhone. Keep in mind, though, that the Neo1973's edges are much more rounded than that of the iPhone, giving the illusion of a smaller size. – Charlie White

Special thanks to Sizeasy!

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Have you seen the Ozmozr? It’s a bit difficult to explain what Ozmozr is, but we may call it social-knowledge-management or social-informal-learning site. It’s a meta social networking, meta aggregator and meta link sharing site. It is still alpha version and the user interface is very uneasy and noisy. But the idea is very good.

I feel that even more important than the idea, is the fact that Ozmozr is developed in the Center for Open and Sustainable Learning, Department of Instructional Technology at Utah State University, USA.

Why I think this is important?

I see that academic groups operating in the field of educational technology should be much more like the one in Utah. They should do research, design and release software (and hardware).

Focus on evaluation of educational technology that is brought to the field by companies or authorities is not enough. Writing texts is not enough. Academics must write code.

This means that in addition to research publications, also software (and hardware) should be recognized as academic results and outcomes. In the academic world this translates to money.

If you have a look of the Utah group’s list of publication and their list of software projects (what a list!) you’ll see that they do both. They publish research papers and release software. We may ask which one will have a greater impact to the world of education?

Still, there wouldn’t be one without the other. You must know your field to build meaningful software for the field. Who knows the best the field of education? Educators and researchers of teaching and learning or software entrepreneurs and educational authorities?

Maybe we should have educational technology conference dedicated for “academic” or other way experimental educational technology solutions. No papers, no power points. Only demos.

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spring_alpha is a multi-player game set in an industrialized housing estate whose inhabitants are attempting to create their own autonomous society in contrast to that of the regime in which they live. The game serves as a "sketch pad" for testing out alternative forms of social practice at both the 'narrative' level, in terms of the game story, and at a 'code' level, as players are able to re-write the code that runs the simulated world. The original narrative is based on a series of drawings by Chad McCail, "Spring" and "Evolution is Not Over Yet", which also shape the game's visual style. The original stories and images become a framework that is fleshed-out by people's own ideas and experiences.


The basic aim of the game is to change the rules by which the society in that world runs. This is done through re-writing the code that simulates that world, creating new types of behaviour and social interaction. How effective this becomes depends on the players' ability to spread these new ideas into the society.


The project is built on top of a FLOSS gaming and simulation system called Social Versioning system (SVS), which incorporates forms of FLOSS development practices (such as networked collaborative coding) into the game engine.

www.spring-alpha.org/svs/

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