Archive for the ‘General’ Category
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Seen on TechCrunch:
Heads up YouTube, Flickr announced today that it has added video capabilities. Note that for now only Pro subscribers can upload video. This was just in time for me, because I was trying to decide how I was going to share a short video that I took on ...
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
I've been using a variety of online survey tools for quite a few years now including Zoomerang, SurveyMonday, and KeySurvey. My new favorite is SurveyGizmo.
We've been increasing the use of online surveys greatly in my district this year. We love how easy it is to gather feedback following a staff ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
According to USA Today, Comcast is planning to spread a little broadband love to its customers in Minneapolis/St. Paul this year. In an effort to compete with Verizon and its FiOS service, Comcast will roll out 50 Mbps download/5 Mbps upload service. They say they're planning to go to 100 ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Link courtesy of @briancaldwell:
This is the granddaddy of all blog posts about Twitter. With links to various Twitter software tools and some interesting Twitter use cases, that page is a great place to send someone who wants to get up to speed on the latest technocrack quickly.
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
Love him or hate him, Robert X. Cringely's column on PBS.org is often provocative. He addressed the American education system is a recent post, and I found a couple points pretty interesting. First, the comparison between knowledge and search:
Andy Hertzfeld said Google is the best tool for an aging programmer ...
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Earlier in the month I posted about the strategy I've been employing to back up my 24" home computer. Using SuperDuper! and a 500-GB external drive attached to my Airport Extreme works great, but it doesn't really solve the my-house-burned-down-and-now-I-lost-all-of-the-embarrassing-pictures-of-my-kids problem. To address that glaring deficiency I needed a way ...
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
Apple's announcement yesterday of a full software development kit (SDK) for the iPhone exceeded my expectations. As I followed along with Engadget's coverage, I had two thoughts: Apple is making a serious play for the corporate enterprise, and we are going to see some seriously amazing mobile apps. They also ...
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Thursday, March 6th, 2008
If you've never seen Larry Lessig talk about free culture, copyright, and Creative Commons you're missing out. According to Lessig himself, he gave his last lecture on free culture on January 31st at Stanford University. Watch it.
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
I've got budget codes and that makes me a prime target for all kinds of vendors who have just what my school district needs. Between the cold call invitations to online demos, meetings with vendors sales reps I actually want to talk to, and various conferences, I see a lot ...
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
We got our first family computer last fall, a 24" Apple iMac. It had been running like a champ until a strange hardware problem popped up a few weeks ago. It didn't boot properly a few times, and when I investigated further I found that the system was reporting that ...
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Sunday, March 2nd, 2008
I'm a huge Creative Commons advocate, and I use a CC license on pretty much everything I publish online. As much as I love the Commons, I think it's important to remember (and teach) that we're not without some rights when it comes to traditionally licensed works. (Here's where I ...
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Sunday, March 2nd, 2008
Where does the time go? Could it really be that my last blog post was on Dec 11th? Yikes. OK, I'm getting back in the saddle.
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