Monday, May 8th, 2006
Mark McCahill is from the University of Minnesota and is one of the architects of the Croquet Project, an open source peer-to-peer system for building virtual worlds like those found in World of Warcraft and Second Life. Those of you who've been around the Internet block a few times might ...
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Saturday, May 6th, 2006
The turnout was huge, the sessions were great, the food was delicious, and the conversations stimulating. Total cost: $3.50 for parking all day. By any measure the first Barcamp-style (un)conference in the Twin Cities was a rousing success.
I caught a total of eight talks and demos between 10:00 a.m. and ...
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Tuesday, March 21st, 2006
I've been to a few conferences over the last few years, but this is my first one with a vendor badge. My badge got me into the vendor hall the day before it opens. (The conference doesn't really start until tomorrow.) It's quite the logistics exhibition.
The vendors ship all of ...
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Tuesday, February 21st, 2006
We had a whole-district staff development day today and I had the chance to introduce about 35 teachers to Web 2.0 and some applications like Del.icio.us, Flickr (with an accompanying lesson on Creative Commons), Technorati, Bloglines, and Wikipedia. I was pleased with the results, and the experience reminded me of ...
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Sunday, December 25th, 2005
Have you ever had a really cool idea and hoped like crazy that you were the first to think of it? I had that experience just last night as I got ready for bed, having just finished posting some photos to a Christmas photoset on Flickr.
One of our favorite things ...
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Saturday, December 24th, 2005
I posted a while ago about my new podcasting microphone, but I thought I'd post an updated photo of the podcave. If you click through to the photo on Flickr you'll be able to see some additional information about the equipment. The new gear includes a Heil PL-2 boom, Electro-Voice ...
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Sunday, December 11th, 2005
I resolved for my recent podcasting presentation at the TIES Conference to avoid bullet points entirely in my Keynote slides. I was motivated in part by some reading I've been doing at Presentation Zen, a blog devoted "professional presentation design." Two posts in particular, "Gates, Jobs, & the Zen aesthetic" ...
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Thursday, October 20th, 2005
I posted about Flock a little over a month ago and wondered if it would be the first Web 2.0 browser. I downloaded the first pre-alpha-developer release today after getting an email about it and so far it's looking pretty interesting. This is definitely not a release for the faint ...
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Wednesday, September 14th, 2005
I saw it in Wired today in an article titled "Killer Buzz Flocks to New Browser." Could Flock be the first of a new generation of Web 2.0 browsers? According to the Wired article:
Flock advertises itself as a "social browser," meaning that the application plays nicely with popular web services ...
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Tuesday, August 30th, 2005
It seems like "the long tail" is popping up everywhere these days so I guess this is a good time for a jargon watch post about it. The long tail literally refers to the general shape of a sloping probability function. Not surprisingly, the interesting part goes beyond the mathematical ...
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Thursday, August 4th, 2005
If I haven't posted anything in a few days it has mostly to do with the fact that I've been spending much of my evening time figuring out and playing with my new "home studio." Although I haven't posted many podcasts yet, I feel comfortable in the interview format and ...
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Friday, July 22nd, 2005
If you haven't discovered Technorati yet, you should. It's one of the best sites on the Internet to track what's being said in the blogosphere. Last week at the Apple Distinguished Educator Summer Institute in San Jose, those of us who were blogging the event agreed to use the "ade2005" ...
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