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Here’s our take on news that matters for Thursday, February 16. Today’s theme is new forms of presentation, and here are a some links to headlines about technology that is changing the way we live and learn.

• Gaming — Nintendo’s DS is still outperforming Sony’s PSP worldwide. And here’s a nice take on the importance of choice and free will in video games.

• Blogging, Podcasting, and Vodcasting — Podcasting is all over the place now. In addition to personal, educational, and radio podcasts, we now have podcasting priests, and mutual funds podcast. Some believe it is also the next big think in e-zine marketing.

• Handhelds – Analysts are predicting that 3G will drive a big mobile market explosion. The mobile market will be worth 231 billion euros in Europe, the Middle East and Africa by 2009, according to a report from analysts the Yankee Group.
• Social Networks – Well, it looks like Sony finally gets the fact that online gaming is about interactive social networking. The company has announced the September launch of its PS3Hub that will feature games, chat, and media exchange (song and movie files), and other communication features.

Now, here’s a recap of our favorite posts from the edublogging community from the past 48 hours.

• From David Warlick : Post on bottom-line concepts for Web 2.0.
• From Stephen Downes : Post on the new e-Framework Newsletter.
• From Sally Northmore : Post on rare books in digital formats and the value (or not) of page turning mechanisms.
• From Alan Levine : Post on presentation as conversation.
• From Lanny Arvan : Post on the learning technologist as Elmer Gantry.