Monday, November 28th, 2005
I've been curious about Google's AdSense program for a while so I installed the AdSense plugin for WordPress and signed up. I have no illusions about making any money from this, and it's the last time I'll mention it on my blog unless something really interesting happens. I guess I'm ...
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Wednesday, October 26th, 2005
Educational Cathedrals and Flying Machines with Michael Jay, Educational Systemics
This talk is about how we adapt the educational environment to meet the needs of our students in an environment of rapid technological change. What's an educational cathedral? It includes the physical design and the resources we use. The structure dictates ...
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Wednesday, September 14th, 2005
Google Blog Search is out in Beta mode. It appears that they are building an index of RSS feeds which may or may not be actual blogs. I don't see any tagging going on, but if I were Technorati I probably wouldn't be sleeping very well right now. Don't miss ...
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Monday, September 5th, 2005
Wired is carrying a story about a wiki of sorts that is being used to convey information about conditions in the aftermath of Katrina. A couple programmers have taken the Google Maps API and built a Web page, Scipionus.com, that allows people to add markers to the maps of ...
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Friday, August 12th, 2005
I'm hoping to get a little geocaching in this weekend on a brief camping trip. My first step was to head over to geocaching.com and search for any geocaches near where we'll be camping. Of course there were, but it can be difficult sometimes to know exactly how close they ...
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Tuesday, August 9th, 2005
Phillip Torrone over at Make: Blog has found a site with instructions for making customized Google Maps the easy way. Well, relatively easy anyway. You'll still need to know something about HTML, but Chris Houser's "How to Use Google Maps EZ" makes it about as simple as possible until someone ...
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Tuesday, August 9th, 2005
Google is now officially supporting RSS feeds for its news service. Besides feeds for their news categories, you can generate a custom feed for any Google News search. This was possible before, but my understanding is that it was a 3rd party solution and not officially supported. It's nice, if ...
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Tuesday, July 12th, 2005
Tim points to a post at O'Reilly Radar that has a nice summary of about 15 Google Maps hacks. I predict an explosion of these types of hacks now that Google has released an official API. (I'm really sticking my neck out on that one!) :-) More importantly, we need ...
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Friday, July 1st, 2005
It's about time. Google is now officially supporting external use of its maps.google.com service by publishing an API that makes it possible to embed Google Maps in any Web page. My first application will be creating a page that has all of our school locations flagged. That will make it ...
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Tuesday, June 28th, 2005
Google purchased a company called Keyhole a while ago and everyone has been wondering how they would incorporate the technology. Now we know. They've just launched a new version of the Keyhole software called Google Earth which is available for free. This will make a great addition to any geography ...
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Monday, June 20th, 2005
I've been using Apple's new OS 10.4 for over a month now and my initial impression was corrrect: the best new feature is Spotlight, Apple's desktop search system. Since buying a Brother 7820N laser printer/copier/fax/scanner a couple weeks ago I've realized that if I can find decent OCR software I have ...
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Monday, May 9th, 2005
It's impossible to keep up with the acronyms that appear on the Web these days. One of the latest to show up on my radar screen is AJAX which stands for "Asynchronous Javascript and XML." In a nutshell, AJAX describes a technique for building web applications that don't necessarily act ...
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