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John Eckman

I'm a Sr. Director at Optaros, a professional services firm offering strategy, design, development, and consulting services to enterprises interested in leveraging free and open source software.

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November 27, 2007

A Few Good Channels

Tagged with: , , , , , , , , , — John @ 11:46 am

Now that Miro 1.0 is out, I thought I’d share a few excellent video “channels” I’ve been watching lately - TED Talks, Google Tech Talks and Google engEDU, Pop!Tech, and Ask a Ninja!. Between them all, they may just get you through the writer’s strike.

(To subscribe to any of these in Miro, you can just use the “Add Channel” command in the Channel Menu and put in the RSS url below. Be sure to look at whether you want to download ALL the videos in that feed or just NEW videos added.
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