A new software package, eJamming, available for the Mac and Windows, allows musicians to perform together live through the Internet.  The software is free during the public beta period.

The software synchronizes audio from different users in a “group” so that they can play instruments and sing in “real time”.  There’s a slight delay in the audio due to Internet latency, but the site has a tutorials that teach you how to work with the delay and features of the software.  The site also includes a forum where users can look for other musicians to form an online group or to offer or take lessons.

Besides musicians, the software might have applications for actors performing radio scripts or readings or different types of language instruction activities.  The software is getting considerable attention in the press and the founders were named in May as one of the top 24 new innovators on the net by “Fortune” magazine.

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Google Earth has recently published new imagery, allowing higher resolution viewing in some areas in over 130 countries. You can read more about it and follow clues to the new images at the Google Lat-Long Blog.

The Google Earth Blog (not affiliated with Google) highlights interesting uses of Google Earth, including a visualization of Burma, and a description of new, free tools to explore census data in Google Earth. From Frank Taylor’s Google Earth Blog:

“A nice new US census visualization tool for Google Earth has been released by Zonums Software. The new tool is called GE Census Explorer and allows you produce colorful 3D bar charts, pie charts, histograms, and scatter-plots. FreeGeographyTools has a good review and lots of screenshots. This new tool requires you to download an application, but a web interface is promised “soon”. Meanwhile, you could also try gCensus which does something similar for Google Earth using a web interface.”

The Center for Instructional Technology is offering workshops for anyone interested in Google Earth, including a brief lunchtime introduction, a hands-on workshop to create your own materials within Google Earth, demonstrations by the Center on Globalization, Governance and Competitiveness and a Google Earth users group. Come and find out what you can do! Register on the CIT website for these events.

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Courses, events and campus life activities at the University of California at Berkeley are now featured on YouTube. Much of the content is similar to U.C. Berkeley’s channel on iTunes U.

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